It's odd for me that it's one of the few fandoms I like that I can't think of much bad to say about or anything I feel a need to plothole patch or come up with headcanon to "fix". I really just want the rest of the story. (If I really scrape for anything, all I can come up with is that the comic book attempts to expand the story that came out back around the time of the movie are best left questionably canon. And maybe that the special effects in the film are noticeably a little dated if you watch in story-chronological order... but it's still aged better than 90+% of other films from the same time. But for the most part, this one's as near to perfect as it gets for me. (Which doesn't rule out pondering the occasional AU, since characters here make a lot of difficult choices and there are potential branch points everywhere.))
Even the music is amazing. I have the soundtracks and listen to them a lot. The prequel was highly interesting because, along with basically adding to the backstory behind the events of the movie, it basically showed the point at which the Skeksis went from being a bunch of hedonistic overlords who con-gamed the planet's population into treating them as lords (which ain't great to start with) and tumbled over the Morality Event Horizon into genocidal monsters literally feeding on the life force of others. And implies this has been a slippery slope they've been sliding down since division.
Yeah. it's even proven not to be a simple black-and-white thing in the prequel series by skekGra the Heretic. Though, in addition to being a good guy camping out in the desert with his counterpart, he's also stoned out of his buzzardy gourd on hallucinogenic berries. so...
Oh, a lot of the original designs were also worked on by Brian Froud, btw. Same guy who did designs for Labyrinth. So a lot more intricate detail than the average muppet.
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Date: 2021-03-02 08:02 am (UTC)Even the music is amazing. I have the soundtracks and listen to them a lot. The prequel was highly interesting because, along with basically adding to the backstory behind the events of the movie, it basically showed the point at which the Skeksis went from being a bunch of hedonistic overlords who con-gamed the planet's population into treating them as lords (which ain't great to start with) and tumbled over the Morality Event Horizon into genocidal monsters literally feeding on the life force of others. And implies this has been a slippery slope they've been sliding down since division.
Yeah. it's even proven not to be a simple black-and-white thing in the prequel series by skekGra the Heretic. Though, in addition to being a good guy camping out in the desert with his counterpart, he's also stoned out of his buzzardy gourd on hallucinogenic berries. so...
Oh, a lot of the original designs were also worked on by Brian Froud, btw. Same guy who did designs for Labyrinth. So a lot more intricate detail than the average muppet.