#Dark crystal age of rebellion series#
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. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark
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