Even as late as 2009, the film was widely framed as “surprisingly dark (despite the hint right there in the title) for a children’s film.”
Probably because it was brought to us by Jim Henson, creator of the lovable, bright, and happy Muppets and Fraggles, the original film’s dystopian tone, with its barren population and scorched world, is a concept that critics just couldn’t seem to get over. Age of Resistance drops us into a once-thriving world that’s rapidly in decline Ain’t no party like a skeksis party! Kevin Baker/Netflix
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The care, the attention to detail, and the roster of stars eager for involvement are all an indication of just how highly valued Age of Resistance is by its creators - and how ultimately satisfying it is that the resulting series is a win for everyone. Through it all, the production is blessed with a huge, delighted, and delightful cadre of A-list actors (seriously, the list is eye-popping), all taking their roles very seriously. But while there are many moments of whimsy, they’re grace notes on a show that’s unabashedly somber if anything, the rich detail of the puppetry and production design paradoxically makes Age of Resistance’s world feel even bleaker, and lends its moments of real horror a disturbing sense of the uncanny valley. Its setting is a fantasy world as vast and complex as the most high-budget epic fantasies, yet its puppetry means many viewers might expect the series to convey a constant whimsy. The Dark Crystal was odd because it was dark for a children’s film Age of Resistance is odd because it’s so deeply committed to both its high level of puppetry and its epic fantasy. It’s in many ways as odd as its predecessor, though perhaps for different reasons. The Dark Crystal was one of the late Jim Henson’s pet projects, one whose world he continued to build and expand for years after the film was created, and the new production has been built as faithfully as possible to that spirit. There’s a delightful moment late in the season when the puppets themselves tell stories through the age-old “sacred” art of puppetry, and we completely understand why they hold it so dear. The result is gorgeous, thoughtful, detailed, and utterly remarkable. The Henson Company, in its most ambitious project to date, has arguably already entirely subverted 2019 expectations by telling its entire, 10-episode story mainly through puppetry rather than CGI.
To say this approach subverts the expectations that a title like “age of resistance” might convey is putting it mildly. Publisher: Archaia Studios Press ISBN: 9781684156290 Number of pages: 112 Weight: 644 g Dimensions: 259 x 168 x 15 mm You may also be interested in.Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark Collects Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance #5-8. Based on a story by Jim Henson's Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance series writers, Will Matthews & Jeff Addiss, Adam Cesare (Clown in a Cornfield) and French Carlomagno (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) present an official prequel to the next chapter of the pop culture phenomenon, now streaming on Netflix. But the longer they travel, the more Hup begins to doubt that Barfinnious is truly who he says he is. AN OFFICIAL PREQUEL TO THE HIT NETFLIX SERIES! Return to Thra in a time before the Age of Resistance to meet Hup - the breakout star of Netflix's hit Dark Crystal series, who's a Podling cook dreaming of being a Paladin - and who discovers that sometimes it's not good when your wishes come true! One day, the chivalrous bard Barfinnious comes to Hup's village with tales of former glory and charms the Podling into leaving his small town to journey into adventure.
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