#liveblogging so they could be doing it later in the ep ORRR later in the other parts

[jay-wasreblogging]

I thought that when they started to talk about Sherlock's failing grades, Victor would casually mention that Sherlock doesn't know about the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System

[thebibliomancer]

Dark Crystal Age of Resistance ep 2 liveblog

Just a stream of thoughts

Things I don’t want to do again: watch a puppet eat a melancholic breakfast

Ooh snap the podling is Aughra’s housekeeper or something

Wonder why she doesn’t have one in movie times. I mean besides the Skeksis drinking everyone

Aughra: goes right from deep sleep to “OHSHIT I OVERSLEPT AND EVERYTHING IS HORRIBLE FOREVER”

Come to think of it, between this and the power of the dark crystal comics, authority figures taking overlong naps causes more trouble than anything else in this world

Podling housekeeper: immediately tries to give her a hug

Aughra: 'No, none of that!'

Aughra was trying to see the entire universe and is now annoyed that she actually has to do her job now

Oh that’s why she doesn’t have a housekeeper later. She’s kind of a rude boss

Underground elf needs blindfold. She has darkvision and everything is way too bright

Hey how come all the dnds can have both dark and bright vision with no real adjustment time?

It’s a fizzgig!

Deet: “Do you like having your belly rubbed?”

A fizzgig: -immediately rolls over-

Do the gelflings just accept the unwelcome touches and sinister way of talking as Just How Lords Are? The Skeksis don’t really try to act unevil

Chamberlain decides to frame Rian for Mira’s disappearance and hey there’s no forensics that will clear him BECAUSE SHE EXPLODED

Chamberlain: “Gelfling have always believed Chamberlain’s whispers, yes? This is what I do. I plant stories in ground, watch grow into truth.”

So the definition of Chamberlain is “an officer who manages the household of a monarch or noble” but I think in Skeksis culture it’s their word for the office gossip

SkekSil just hanging around by the water cooler with the off-duty guards going ‘hey so i heard cheryl and bob are seeing each other and also I heard Rian killed his girlfriend but how about that game last night? are the referees crooked or what?’

So before the Skeksis had more to hide than usual why was Chamberlain spreading fake news among the Gelfling? Just for shits and giggles?

Oh so this is why the General/future Garthim Master really hates the Chamberlain

Every problem that he ever faces he suggests punching someone’s teeth in and then Chamberlain goes ‘hey here’s a plan that isn’t stupid’ and the Emperor sides with him

Guy just wants to punch teeth and Chamberlain keeps getting in the way

Emperor: ‘I NEED MY SOUL GOO I’M COMING DOWN FROM MY HIGH’

I’m less surprised that the Gelfling became jackbooted thugs after the movie. Tolyn wears that hat gleefully

“Dreamfast with me” oh yeah it’s hard to do a falsely accused plot when someone can just prove their innocence with psychic flashback sharing

Damn the puppetry on that terrifying spider

Deet: ‘Do you want to be friends, terrifying spider?’

Friend to all living thing living underground has not prepared her for dangerous predators

You Tried, Errol Flynn Podling

Deet: -slams podling Hup into spider like a tetherball-

Hup is on the way to meet the high queen gelfling to become the first podling Paladin

Now I have to grapple with learning that Thra has the concept of paladins

And I was just making jokes about Toolah from Beneath the Dark Crystal comic being one earlier today

Librarian: ‘hey I’m sorry for being rude yesterday’

Brea: ‘Can you help me research something?’

Librarian: ‘GTFO MY LIBRARY’

Elder Cadia: ‘I can’t tell you what that symbol means but I CAN get you super high’

Brea does a princess bride drink switch because the super drugs is actually amnesia dust and she’s not down with that

So the weird symbol vision Brea saw either means beginning or ending because Thra is one of those places where anything can mean the opposite thing

Gourmand: “Come out Gelfling! We won’t hurt you.... for long!”

Did... did you really thing that would work?

Apparently the Skeksis have successfully stopped anyone else from seeing the Crystal since they (or the UrSkeks) broke it because Rian gets one look at the Crystal all cracked and darkened and goes ‘well, that ain’t right’

LOCKSNAKE!

I love biotech nonsense

Rian decides to climb down the Crystal pit to sneak into the laboratory and steal the soul goo so he has proof

Just think: if he kept climbing down he would have found out Thra is hollow and has a sun inside and then he would have caught on fire and died

Chamberlain is an expert locksnakepick. Just hypnotize the lock and then EATS IT

Scientist: ‘dammit Chamberlain, stop eating my locks and stealing my goo!’

Rian yoinks

Damn Gurjin you were a true bro

Deet: “I don’t know how other clans go about their lives with three suns hanging over their heads all the time. They’re giant balls of fire! .... What if one falls?” Dammit Deet, you’re a delight

Deet has been following the moon instead of star the whole time because she’s an underground elf and doesn’t understand the sky

“Even a princess is not above the law” yeah but the law sucks, your majesty

Chamberlain: “I deserve to be punished. Flog me, scold me. I am riddled with shame. Such shame” This is a brave strategy, SkekSil. Orrr is this a briar patch thing?

Oh he’s flipping the blame on the Scientist by saying things that are technically true and giving them a bit of a spin

Emperor: “Is this true?”

Scientist: “Ehhhhhhhhhh technically?”

Where did this aptitude for lying go later in life, SkekSil? Where went your skill for wriggling our of trouble?

Annnnyway that’s how Chamberlain talked his own punishment down to the Scientist having his eye eaten by a beetle

And then I guess because he’s feeling like a big dick boy, he immediately tries to pick a fight with the General

Rian’s dad: “Let me hunt down my son. Then I’ll dreamfast with him to see what happened”

Skeksis: ‘OH SHIT DREAMFASTING’

So now Ordon is being sent after Rian which surely won’t backfire horribly. At least they told Ordon not to dreamfast with Rian for Reasons.

Aughra: “I must find what happened in my absence. I could ask the Mystics! ... No, no I don’t have time for riddles”

So instead she’s off to go chat with the Skeksis. Everything really is impressively imploding on the Skeksis in terms of people having serious questions of them

Nooo SkekTec your beautiful yellow eye

Actually based on the mentioned needler and tail dangler it sounds like the Skeksis really want to fuck each other up. It is a wonder they lasted so long without killing each other

And a wonder that the General bypassed all the mutilation when he beat Chamberlain for new Emperor in the movie and went right to making him naked and throwing him out of his house to do the walk of shame exile