Line #24 Fridge/TheDarkCrystal


1	For ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'', see [[Fridge/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance here]].
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3	!1982 Film
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5	!!FridgeBrilliance
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7	* The scene where the Chamberlain tries to convince Jen and Kira to make peace makes a lot more sense in the original version where the Skeksis had their own language. He's not speaking in short phrases to sound like [[ObfuscatingStupidity he's dumb]], he's trying to speak in broken Gelfling. The novelisation was far more explicit about this.
8	* When Kira was being bargained for the shard, Jen was more than willing to give it up for her freedom, since she was the last of their kind. Then Kira gets stabbed. It seemed at first he was merely honoring her last request "Heal the crystal." But he was actually remembered the reason he went after the shard in the first place, to stop the monsters that killed his family. Now that he has no family anymore, he's got nothing to lose. Of course Kira gets better as his reward.
9	* Although clearly dark-looking in every aesthetical sense, the Skeksis still draw power from the suns (and in fact the ''only'' magical ability of theirs seen onscreen in the original movie). A remnant of their angelic origins or reinforcement that they and the Mystics are the same?
10	* When they make it to the castle, the Mystics use their chanting to force the Garthim protecting the entrance to step aside. Whether they see the Mystics as the same beings as the Skeksis or because the Skeksis made sure that they would never attack Mystics as a self-preservation tactic, it makes sense that the Garthim would obey.
11	** It also helps explain how the mystics were able to protect Jen from the Garthim and raise him in their care in the first place.
12	* As fleshed out in [[Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance the series]], the Trial By Stone makes sense for a people who are so obsessed with eternal life, to the point that a Skeksis coming to harm is outrageous to them. Attacking a passive proxy fulfills the Skeksis' brutish nature while still keeping them free from danger.
13	** It's also literally re-enacting the destruction of the Dark Crystal, where they gain their true self.
14	* [[AllThereInTheManual The Expanded Universe states that]] the urSkeks we actually meet in the franchise were exiled form their world for trying to mess with their world's Crystal. What does every conflict in the series or movie either directly involve or ultimately result from? ''Either Urskeks or Skeksis messing with Thra's Crystal''. Then when The Darkening happens, skekSo messes around with that, and continues to do so ''even after it begins rotting his face and fingers off''. If you were to hand these guys a ''freaking nuke'', and tell them exactly what it does, they'd probably still tell skektek or [=TekTih=] to poke around its insides. When these guys were banished and told to "Master their darker selves," the lesson they were meant to learn wasn't AmbitionIsEvil or that TheHedonist is a bad character trait, it was that ''CuriosityIsACrapshoot''.
15	** More than that, the Expanded universe refers to the urSkeks as being branded as heretics on their original homeworld because they sought to use their crystal to purify themselves and purge their inner darkness which flew against the prevailing orthodoxy of their people, which was that one can only learn to accept and [[RedemptionQuest rise above one's darkness]]. This means the second lesson the urSkeks needed to learn was that EvilIsNotAToy.
16	* [=SkekZok=] killing Kira might seem unnecessary on first viewing but if you watch the scene closely, he only pulls out his dagger when she goes to throw the shard to Jen. He in fact stabs her with it ''before'' Jen catches it. So while it wasn't the best decision of the moment, it's not entirely a decision fuelled out of rage. In fact, had he done it a split second earlier, he might have succeeded.
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18	!!FridgeHorror
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20	* Those Landstriders they summon for transport, who later die fighting off the Garthim? Their cubs are left behind, presumably to fend for themselves.
21	* What the Scientist does to those poor animals.
22	* More of FridgeSadness, since the Mystics and Skeksis are the same being, when you consider the posthumous Mystics probably died due to their counterpart Skeksis being killed off in petty schemes or battles with the Gelflings.
23	* Due to the [=uRu=] Mystics and Skeksis {{Synchronization}}, what one feels, the other feels. So the Slavemaster getting his arm (probably forcibly) removed and the Scientist having [[EyeScream his eye eaten by a peeper bug]], and cutting off his arm and leg for the sake of an experiment, plus subesquent [[HealThyself self-performed cybersurgery]], was also experienced by their gentle, kindhearted counterparts.

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