Where Are the Mystics at in 'Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance'? Fans Want Answers!

Apr. 16 2020, Updated 2:04 p.m. ET

If you are a Dark Crystal fan, then you have probably already streamed all 10 episodes of Age of Resistance on Netflix. The '80s muppet masterpiece indubitably has a distinct segment fan base (I used to be more of a Labyrinth fan myself, but DC was once first) who were equivalent portions excited and surprised to discover that the streaming giant had greenlit a prequel to the film that is over three a long time outdated.

Although the new collection delves more into the international of Thra, viewers were left with so much of questions, particularly:

Where are the Mystics in Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance?

WARNING: There are some pretty giant spoilers lurking ahead, so if you haven't seen the display and don't want anything else published to you, then you definately must probably stop reading. If that sorta factor doesn't trouble you, then go right forward and peruse away.

Like I said previous, Age of Resistance is a prequel, and The Dark Crystal movie that came out in 1982 is the conclusion of a story that took some 1000's of years to construct.

AOR occurs best 50 years prior to the occasions of The Dark Crystal, so whilst it gives some perception into the movie's finishing, it will probably handiest give so much insight into the world of Thra, and unfortunately creates extra questions as soon as the 10-part sequence is wrapped. The biggest question is what precisely are the Skeksis after, and the way do they relate to the Mystics?

Thankfully, the other people at Polygon seemed to the Dark Crystal comics that delve deep into the lore of the sequence' history.

Think of it like studying The Silmarillion after checking out The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, that's what the Creation Myths comics for DC are.

Like Genesis, the world of Thra comes out of nowhere, but it surely begins with a track. At the center of it, there is a crystal that forms, called "The Crystal of Truth" but there are other crystals everywhere the universe, together with the dark one. The tune unifies all of them, but there is a drawback with the crystal on Thra. It hadn't completed its track.

As Thra was once rising, the planet realized it wanted a caretaker, so it created one via the name of Aughra. She's smart and all, and used her knowledge to chart the movement of Thra's three Suns to find that a "Great Conjunction" was once going to occur. This Conjunction led to some new guests to Thra, the Urskeks. 

They sang songs that raised the crystal from the middle of Thra into a fortress that they created (a citadel that used to be reminiscent of one thing from their very own home planet). 

While they seemed like nice harbingers of peace and enlightenment, the Urskeks that migrated to Thra were if truth be told banished from their homeworld. The factor about those beings is that they have been kind of bipolar, and one Urskek in explicit had grown exceptionally sour and indignant.

But that does not actually provide an explanation for:

Who are the Mystics in the Dark Crystal?

I'm getting to it. So, after 1,000 years passed and the next Great Conjunction used to be upon the Urskeks, they gathered around Thra's Crystal in the hopes of getting again house. 

But as a substitute of hightailing it to their unique planet, they had been divided into two races: the Skeksis and the Mystics (Urru). Problem is, this department additionally break up their character characteristics down the middle. You ever watch Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito? Of direction you've gotten, since you're cool.

Well in Twins, DeVito's character was supposed to carry all of the unwanted characteristics of humanity, while Arnold possessed the best bits. The Skeksis are principally DeVito in Twins, while the Mystics are more like Arnold. 

The Skeksis were ready to put themselves into positions of continual by way of mendacity to the Gelflings (much like the Urskeks lied after they first got here to Thra) by way of pronouncing that they have been protectors of the crystal and have been there all alongside.

Age of Resistance chronicles the Gelflings who have had enough of the Skeksis' lies and wish to rally towards them. But where are the Mystics and what are they doing while the Skeksis have been running amok? 

Well, as a result of they're peace-loving, delicate beings, they're no longer about to get embroiled in the avaricious, power-hungry struggles that the Skeksis are obsessive about. By the time the events of The Dark Crystal movie happen, the Mystics have mostly died out.

The after-credit scenes for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance are in fact a documentary.

While the end of the sequence doesn't necessarily arrange a Season 2, there rather well might be one. (The Gelflings are left with out a chief, Fara and All-Maudra die, and Cadia has his memory wiped.) 

However, there's a cool behind-the-scenes documentary that delineates just how the collection is made. Streaming numbers will in all probability dictate whether or not or now not AOR will get more episodes. Are you down for some extra grisly, fantasy-themed muppet action?

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