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The last time we heard anything about a prequel to Jim Henson’s fantasy classic The Dark Crystal, it was in book form, not in Netflix original series form. But that has changed today, with the announcement of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. It’ll run 10 episodes and yes, there will be puppets.
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Here’s the first teaser:
TV Line reports that Louis Leterrier (Now You See Me, The Incredible Hulk, The Transporter) will direct and executive produce the series. Netflix’s official description reveals this about the plot: “When three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis’ power, they set out on an epic journey to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world.”
“Horrifying secret” implies there won’t be any skimping on the scarier elements of the 1982 film, though this is aimed at a family audience. The fanciful characters will be brought to life with a mix of puppetry and CG, the latter of which will no doubt add a bit of polish to the original film’s all-practical effects.
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So far there’s no word on when The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance will air other than “coming soon,” but it sounds like a fairly labor-intensive endeavor to be too soon. We’ll be keeping our all-seeing detachable eyeball on this one.
Strolling through a gallery, a mustachioed man pauses before a large sculpture—which, as he studies it, reveals a remarkable secret hidden within. (His “Oh shit!” moment is priceless.) In just two minutes, Jonathan Djob Nkondo’s The Last Exhibition manages to be as delightfully weird as it needs to be.
Note: Neutrinos are notoriously hard to detect. Look down at your hand. Trillions of neutrinos are moving through it at close to the speed of light (unless you happen to be benefiting from the cover of a unifield shield, or sitting in the "shadow" of a neutron star.)
The tiny, swirling clumps of neutronium inside an annie plant cast fairly solid neutrino shadows, and much, much fainter shadows are cast by the oversized post-trans-Uranic atoms used in the construction of annie plants, as well as the spacecraft hulls for folks who can afford such extravagance.
Seeing these shadows, however, requires the ability to catch lots of neutrinos, and figure out where they are and are not getting through.
The Deep Ice Array on Europa does not depend on hundreds of kilometers of ice for neutrino detection. It uses the same field manipulation technology found in unifield shields, allowing for the capture of as large or as small a percentage of passing neutrinos as the scientists working there wish to capture. It's one more way to monitor the health of Sol system's primary (aka "the Sun"), an activity that the hundreds of billions of sophonts depending on that star for a gravitational anchor approve of.
At any rate, the illustration of Neosynchronicity's neutrino shadow is stylized for enhanced readability, and shows that Ennesby isn't afraid to do some sky-writing with beams of neutrinos.
