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Two items: Kira calling the animals (said to be a gift, not a teaching) and essence possibly being less effective on older beings.
*** The movie supports this answer in two ways: Kira describes in the dreamfasting, "To go free, and talk with the flowers and all living things", which suggests that she is doing this because they allow her to roam around rather than being taught how by them. Also, Aughra encourages her by saying, "You have the gift", rather than "the knowledge" or "even just a neutral phrase like "the ability".
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* Why was skekUng (the Garthim master/later emperor) so shocked when the podling essence didn't work? Surely that couldn't have been the only time they drained podlings for essence. So they had to have known that it didn't work, at least not as well as gelfling essence.
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* Why was skekUng (the Garthim master/later emperor) so shocked when the podling essence didn't work? Surely that couldn't have been the only time they drained podlings for essence. So they had to have known that it didn't work, at least not as well as gelfling essence.essence.
** It's possible that any essence rejuvenation works for less time now that they are older and older, and that the Emperor suppressed this knowledge because it would involve admitting that he himself is also becoming weaker sooner. That could also be one of the reasons why they mostly hang around the castle recharging now instead of leading widescale raids across the entire countryside.
** It's possible that any essence rejuvenation works for less time now that they are older and older, and that the Emperor suppressed this knowledge because it would involve admitting that he himself is also becoming weaker sooner. That could also be one of the reasons why they mostly hang around the castle recharging now instead of leading widescale raids across the entire countryside.
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** Seems pretty reasonable. What's the headscratcher?
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** Maybe the podlings couldn't speak to animals the same way Kira did.
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* Viewed in light of the prequel Series, the Narrator in the film never actually says that Jen (and Kira) are the only Gelfling left in the world. He merely says that the Skeksis killed Jen's family and Clan. All the statements about how 'all the gelfling are gone' are by Aughra, the Skeksis, and Jen/Kira themselves. Fallible characters who are working off limited information of their own experiences, with no omniscient way of determining whether Gelfling survive. (In Jen and kira's case, their belief they are the last is based mainly on the fact they had met no others in their lives, and seeing the ruins of the old Gelfling civilization.) Making it very possible that some Gelfling from the 7 clans may have survived in remote places of the world where the Skeksis and Aughra were unable to find them, and offering a chance for the Gelfling species and Gelfling Society to be rebuilt.
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* Viewed in light of the prequel Series, the Narrator in the film never actually says that Jen (and Kira) are the only Gelfling left in the world. He merely says that the Skeksis killed Jen's family and Clan. All the statements about how 'all the gelfling are gone' are by Aughra, the Skeksis, and Jen/Kira themselves. Fallible characters who are working off limited information of their own experiences, with no omniscient way of determining whether Gelfling survive. (In Jen and kira's Kira's case, their belief they are the last is based mainly on the fact they had met no others in their lives, and seeing the ruins of the old Gelfling civilization.) Making it very possible that some Gelfling from the 7 clans may have survived in remote places of the world where the Skeksis and Aughra were unable to find them, and offering a chance for the Gelfling species and Gelfling Society to be rebuilt.rebuilt.
* Why was skekUng (the Garthim master/later emperor) so shocked when the podling essence didn't work? Surely that couldn't have been the only time they drained podlings for essence. So they had to have known that it didn't work, at least not as well as gelfling essence.
* Why was skekUng (the Garthim master/later emperor) so shocked when the podling essence didn't work? Surely that couldn't have been the only time they drained podlings for essence. So they had to have known that it didn't work, at least not as well as gelfling essence.
