While dangerous, it offers a place far from the Skeksis for the Gelflings to wait until the prophecy of the Chosen One can be fulfilled. It’s remote enough the Heretic safely lived there, and even the Hunter needed help traversing it. The Dousan clan, the Gelflings “obsessed with death,” live far away from all the others on the shifting sands of Crystal Sea. That’s not even the only hiding place the show presented as a possibility. ![]() And although we still don’t know Deet’s ultimate fate (beyond a vision of her-or someone who looks like her-carrying the baby Kira), her powers to absorb the Darkening could even provide a shield to hide all of them while also protecting them from the spoiled earth of the caves. With the Gelfling clans uniting at the end of the prequel series, they easily could have taken many others with them too. While smaller than the others, “ said to number less than three dozen,” the Grottan Gelflings not only lived farther from the Skeksis’ reach, “their life span is told to be unheard of, lasting three to four times as long as other Gelfling.” It’s not impossible that deep below the surface, hidden away along with their allies and fellow Grot cave born the Arathim, a band of ageless Gelflings were always hiding, waiting to return safely. The film made Thra seem far smaller than we now know it to be, especially since an entire clan lived underneath the ground too. Jen was able to traverse the lands in a matter of days, as were the slow-moving Mystics, who left their home to return to the Crystal Palace. The world of Thra and the spread of the Gelflings across its lands far exceeded anything even hinted at in the movie. Rather than offer the despair of the inevitable, the series might have shown us how more Gelflings will survive the Darkening in ways we’ve never known before. ![]() Age of Resistance has made the tragedy of the Gelfling story far more personal, and that makes their fate much harder to ignore even when they stand victorious at the end of both the show and film.īut even still, Age of Resistance might actually be the key to giving The Dark Crystal a happier ending for the Gelflings. It won’t be as easy celebrating Jen and Kira’s victory knowing Deet’s sacrifices are likely lost to time forever. Brea and Rian are no longer anonymous faces in the past. We knew this before Age of Resistance, but experiencing the lives of the seven Gelfling clans and the bravery of its great heroes makes the sadness of their story far more real. New Force users will always be born in the galaxy far, far away, but Jen and Kira are far more likely to be the last Gelflings ever than they are to repopulate Thra. The extermination of the Gelflings exceeds even the horror of what happened to the Jedi. You celebrate the defeat of the evil that remained.īut Age of Resistance makes us confront the past in a way not even the Star Wars prequel trilogy does. In that moment the countless deaths the Empire was responsible for previously doesn’t make Luke’s victory meaningless. It’s like seeing Luke Skywalker help Darth Vader defeat the Emperor. There was nothing they could have done to bring their clans and families back all they could do was save Thra, which they did. That was the reality on Thra, so Jen and Kira’s victory over the Skeksis wasn’t diminished by how things were long ago. In The Dark Crystal movie, we knew the Gelflings were all but gone. ![]() This inevitable tragedy doesn’t exactly fit with the hopeful spirit of The Dark Crystal franchise. Even though the TV series also ends in victory, at some point soon thereafter Rian, Brea, Deet, and all the rest will be killed, as their race is all but eradicated. This painful fact is further underlined by the new prequel series Age of Resistance, which features seven thriving Gelfling clans and many great heroes. Thanks to the cruelty of the Skeksis, only two Gelflings remain in the world. Jen and Kira return the lost shard during the Great Conjunction, reuniting the Mystics and the Skeksis the UrSkeks leave for their home world and Thra is left to reclaim its former glory. The Dark Crystal movie ends on a triumphant note. ![]() Warning: This post contains major spoilers for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
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