History Fridge / TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance

* Aghra warns that if Stone-in-the-Wood falls, "Great Sacrifices will have to be made." Come two episodes later, Aghra comes to make a deal with the Skeksis, ''her life'' to save the Hunters', in exchange for the imprisoned Gelfling to go free. ''She was the Great Sacrifice.'' [[spoiler:Lucky for her, it all works out for her in the end.]]

* Skektek [[spoiler:throwing the Gruenak down the shaft mirrors his own death in the film.]]

* About midway into the series, its shown the Emperor is suffering some type of BodyHorror, mainly his fingers literally falling off and oozing. He goes to the Scientist, asking him how much essence he would need. When the Scientist is hesistant to give an answer, the Emperor starts choking the Scientist's pet bird, forcing the Scientist to answer. In the last episode, its shown the Scientist had stored extra essence for himself in the bird's cage. It was not sympathy for the bird that forced the Scientist to answer; he needed to keep the extra essence a secret and if the Emperor had killed the bird, his secret stash might have been revealed.
* When The Collector declares "This face was beautiful once, but then came knowledge", it initially seems to be BlatantLies. But when one considers that [[spoiler:the Skeksis used to be UrSkeks (or rather, they used to be half of them, existing as combined beings with the Mystics)]], it becomes possible that The Collector wasn't lying. It may also count as {{Foreshadowing}}. The "knowledge" in question may be a reference to [[spoiler:the previous Grand Conjunction that split the UrSkeks into the Skeksis and The Mystics, and the fact that, by becoming two beings, the positive and negative aspects of the UrSkeks are now laid bare and out in the open.]]

* Deet [[spoiler:killing skekLach. Whilst it is no doubt that skekLach got what she deserved, her death also meant that her urRu/Mystic counterpart (urSen the Monk) also died as a result of their {{synchronization}}. Even worse when you remember that Deet is one of the few beings on Thra who knows of the link the Skeksis and the [=urRu=] share, which means that Deet is likely aware that she indirectly killed an innocent.]]
** Then again, her violence seems more like unplanned lashing out than an intentional killing. And her walking away in shame afterwards could be due to guilt at taking life as much as being corrupted with the Darkening.
** Ditto [[spoiler:skekVar the General being killed by skekSil the Chamberlain. A urRu/Mystic (urMa the Peacekeeper) died as well with him.]]

* Why do the Skeksis hate skekTek so much? Why do they bully and abuse him so relentlessly when he's so vital to keeping them all alive and immortal? It's because their MortalityPhobia is so great; they resent the fact that they need and depend on skekTek to stay alive, and re-direct their fear of death to the one among them who most represents the reality of their own mortality.
** skekTek wanted to join the other Skeksis in battle, but the Emperor ordered him to stay in the castle. They ridiculed him and mocked him and said that he couldn't fight even if he wanted to. Is that true? Or are they in fact trying to find an excuse because they're terrified that skekTek might be killed, and if he dies, they ''all'' die eventually? Notice that the Hunter (who doesn't seem to care about eternal life like the others) is the only one who thinks that skekTek ''should'' be fighting, and accuses him of cowardice for staying behind.

* When The Collector declares "This face was beautiful once, but then came knowledge", it initially seems to be BlatantLies. But when one considers that [[spoiler:the Skeksis used to be UrSkeks (or rather, they used to be half of them, existing as combined beings with the Mystics)], it becomes possible that The Collector wasn't lying. It may also count as {{Foreshadowing}}. The "knowledge" in question may be a reference to [[spoiler:the previous Grand Conjunction that split the UrSkeks into the Skeksis and The Mystics, and the fact that, by becoming two beings, the positive and negative aspects of the UrSkeks are now laid bare and out in the open.]]

* Deet [[spoiler:killing skekLach. Whilst it is no doubt that skekLach got what she deserved, her death also meant that her urRu/Mystic counterpart also died as a result of their PsychicLink. Even worse when you remember that Deet is one of the few beings on Thra who knows of the link the Skeksis and the [=urRu=] share, which means that Deet is likely aware that she indirectly killed an innocent.]]

** Ditto [[spoiler:skekVar the General being killed by skekSil the Chamberlain. A urRu/Mystic died as well with him.]]

* To the audience watching the show, the Skeksis do seem ObviouslyEvil: They are a humanoid chimera of vultures and rats, indulge in JabbaTableManners, and are overall not too pleasant to work with. So why do the Gelflings and Aughra trust them so much? Because on Thra, everything is ugly to a degree and looks can be deceiving. Much of the wildlife is not the general audience member would deem "cute", Aughra looks scary herself and even the Gelfling, despite being the equivalent of Elves, are not as pretty as Elves are usually portrayed. More so, other races, such as Podlings, are dirty, rambunctious, and at the best of times are viewed as nuisances by Gelflings. Meaning, the Skeksis overall behaviors and looks are no more different than other Thra races. Just because the Skeksis look evil to us doesn't mean they look evil to Thra natives.
* The use of the Trials, of which two have been seen so far, being Trial by Stone and Trial by Air. In a possible more traditional fantasy setting, a trial would be a trial to the death. Based on what was seen with by Stone and implied with by Air, however, it is more a display of strength or ability. This makes sense for two reasons. The first, while death is natural killing is not and no one, especially Gelfling, would want to willingly kill another. They would rather show off their abilities to show they are capable. The other reason, more so on the Skeksis side, is that they are afraid of death. So of course the trial would not be to the death either, because none of them want to be killed. They would also rather show off their abilities to each other to prove how strong they are. It is also hinted the Skeksis may have implemented these trials for the reason of avoiding killing one another and passed it to the Gelfling, who adopted the concept for their own.

* skekGra the Heretic wears light clothes and urGoh the Wanderer has dark skin. What better way to show that Skeksis and urRu are part of each other, down to blurring the visual lines of light and dark?

* SkekTek is the Scientist and is good with technology. His name is Skek'''Tek'''. It almost seems like an intentional pun (tek = tech).

* The Heretic wears light clothes and the Wanderer has dark skin. What better way to show that Skeksis and urRu are part of each other, down to blurring the visual lines of light and dark?

* The use of the Trials, of which two have been seen so far, being Trial by Stone and Trial by Air. In a possible more traditional fantasy setting, a trail would be a trail to the death. Based on what was seen with by Stone and implied with by Air, however, it is more a display of strength or ability. This makes sense for two reasons. The first, while death is natural killing is not and no one, especially Gelfling, would want to willingly kill another. They would rather showoff their abilities to show they are capable. The other reason, more so on the Skeksis side, is that they are afraid of death. So of course the trial would not be to the death either, because none of them want to be killed. They would also rather show off their abilities to each other to prove how strong they are. It is also hinted the Skeksis may have implemented these trials for the reason of avoiding killing one another and passed it to the Gelfling, who adopted the concept for their own.

** Ditto [[spoiler:skekVar the General being killed by skekSil. A urRu/Mystic died as well with him.]]

* Deet [[spoiler:killing skekLach. Whilst it is no doubt that skekLach got what she deserved, her death also meant that her [=urRu=]/Mystic counterpart also died as a result of their PsychicLink. Even worse when you remember that Deet is one of the few beings on Thra who knows of the link the Skeksis and the [=urRu=] share, which means that Deet is likely aware that she indirectly killed an innocent.]]
** Then again, her violence seems more like unplanned lashing out than an intentional killing. And her walking away in shame afterwards could be due to guilt at taking life as much as being corrupted with the Darkening.

* The Heretic wears light clothes and The Wanderer has dark skin. What better way to show that Skeksis and uRu are part of each other, down to blurring the visual lines of light and dark?

* Deet [[spoiler:killing skekLach. Whilst it is no doubt that skekLach got what she deserved, her death also meant that her [=UrRu=]/Mystic counterpart also died as a result of their PsychicLink. Even worse when you remember that Deet is one of the few beings on Thra who knows of the link the Skeksis and the [=UrRu=] share, which means that Deet is likely aware that she indirectly killed an innocent.]]

* Deet [[spoiler:killing skekLach. Whilst it is no doubt that skekLach got what she deserved, her death also meant that her [=UrRu=]/Mystic counterpart also died as a result of their PsychicLink. Even worse when you remember that Deet is one of the few beings on Thra who knows of the link the Skeksis and the [=UrRu=] share, which means that Deet is likely aware that she indirectly killed an innocent.]]

* Deet [[spoiler:killing skekLach. Whilst it is no doubt that skekLach got what she deserved, her death also meant that her [=UrRu=]/Mystic counterpart also died as a result of their link PsychicLink. Even worse when you remember that Deet is one of the few beings in Thra who knows of the link the Skeksis and the [=UrRu=] share, which means that Deet is likely aware that she indirectly killed an innocent.]]

* Deet [[spoiler:killing skekLach. Whilst it is no doubt that skekLach got what she deserved, her death also meant that her UrRu counterpart also died as a result of their link PsychicLink. Even worse when you remember that Deet is one of the few beings in Thra who knows of the link the Skeksis and UrRu share, which means that Deet is likely aware that she indirectly killed an innocent.]]