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This week Kristin, Jeannine, and Carole take on Jim Henson's 1982 puppet fantasy The Dark Crystal, a movie plenty of us remember as a cozy childhood favorite and absolutely none of us remembered as being this dark. Kristin walks through the story of Jen and Kira, the last two Gelflings, and the thousand year old crystal that split one race into the gentle Mystics and the monstrous Skeksis. The group gets into how Henson wanted to strip fantasy back down to something closer to the older, stranger versions of fables before Disney smoothed all the edges off them, and there's a real appreciation for what it took to build this world entirely with puppets and practical effects rather than a screen full of CGI. They also dig into the cast of puppeteers behind the creatures, including some familiar names from the Muppets and Star Wars, and compare what critics said about the film back in 1982 to how it plays now. Stick around for a shoutout to the podcast Myths and Legends, which scratches the same itch for anyone who loves hearing the original, unfiltered versions of stories they thought they already knew.
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