When you get that "last two members of species" look

This song makes my guts twist. I see this scene and realize that we are along of a journey with two creatures that are the last of their kind and were always alone, in the sense that they weren't like others. And then there's the prequel that makes the feeling even worse, because all of those beloved characters are dead, but at least paved the road so that Jen and Kira could finally defeat the skesis. Things get better eventually, but we don't always live to see it, and may even not live long enough to give all the support needed to those who will actually live to see the end.

@Johnlindsey289

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe there are gelflings who fled to islands on Thra even where grueneks lived

@user-nu5or1qy2q

2 жыл бұрын

@@Johnlindsey289 skarith is the place where the crystal is but i din't see any islands on the sifan coast

@mathiaskrauss1184

2 жыл бұрын

Skarith (according netflix series) is a rather small area! I think Thra the planet is much much bigger than that...so I guess it´s even quite likele that somwhere else far far from Skeksis several more Gelflings could survive....

I'd forgotten just how melancholy this theme was, but it makes sense in the context of the story. It's essentially a post-apocalyptic story and the leads are the last of their race in what seems at times to be a hopeless endeavor.

@dejavega2137

6 жыл бұрын

BloodylocksBathory according to the books Jen and Kira end up reviving their race and rule as king and queen of Thrall. If you enjoy reading books I suggest you look into it. The books explain a lot about their world.

@WreckingWood

6 жыл бұрын

Like a lost wondering heart that discovered a love it never thought possible but at same time it looked back to all those years never knowing till now how much it was in agony it was and yearning for this. A whirlpool of a dormant pain reopened to be cleansed and finally healed by beauty and grace.

@vegan4theanimals

5 жыл бұрын

But in the end the evil is banished and they are free to live their lives in peace.

@alexandergeppert3174

4 жыл бұрын

@@vegan4theanimals not banished just saved

@harleyquinn5774

3 жыл бұрын

@@dejavega2137 "Revive" used in the context of a high fantasy story is a very vague word to explain how a species was brought back from the brink of extinction. Storytellers like to use vaguely worded explanations so that the audience can come up with their own interpretations of what happened to characters.

I love how both romantic and sad this gorgeous music is. Romantic because obviously Jen and Kira fall in love and complete each other so much after so many years of thinking they would never meet someone to relate to, to be like them and to do something as intimate as dreamfasting together and thus be fully understood for the first time in their lives. Sad because until meeting they both thought they would be forever alone and the last of their species and even after finding each other they know they wouldn't be able to repopulate their people by themselves so if they ever have a child they would doom them to be the one real last Gelfling and be unable to do anything about it. Melancholic, tragic and beautiful

Jen was always one of my Jim Henson crushes, and Kira was my favorite character.

@filiprysavy2886

3 жыл бұрын

Gross.

@brennacollins6000

3 жыл бұрын

SelenaandShuichifan sonamy

tremendously beautiful movie and music. Jim Hendon truly saw incredible beauty in the simple things.

@lugialover2496

4 жыл бұрын

Animatronic puppetry does the one thing that CGI just can’t do: deliver the flesh of a living creature

@Johnlindsey289

3 жыл бұрын

@@lugialover2496 Seen the prequel?

@lugialover2496

3 жыл бұрын

@@Johnlindsey289 I’m gonna.

"The Garthim have always come."

Y’know, The Dark Crystal was one of the keystones of my life being changed. Its uniqueness intrigued me to commence whimsical thoughts of my own creativity and illustrate them serenely. I’ve seen some great masterpieces out in the world, but THIS is one of those that takes the cake...so to speak.

@Johnlindsey289

3 жыл бұрын

Seen the prequel?

@lugialover2496

3 жыл бұрын

@@Johnlindsey289 No, but I’m planning to.

@alexpeterson1138

5 ай бұрын

I agree this world built the foundation of my creativity

@lugialover2496

5 ай бұрын

@@alexpeterson1138 Glad to see some inspirational support

@alexpeterson1138

5 ай бұрын

@@lugialover2496 yeah it helped me with my own world building

End. Begin. Jen and Kira are standing in between those two words. One foot in the end of the Gelfling civilization they were born to but will never know, and one foot in the beginning to a new world they will shape in their image, without anyone to guide them. An Eden that exists with new possibilities because old possibilities were destroyed.

@Makkaru112

9 ай бұрын

The books and other Jim Henson works show that they weren’t the only Gelfling around. Just the rest were in hiding like everything else. But also other clans that just lived very far away.

la mejor banda sonora de todos los tiempos, el trabajo que más me ha influenciado como artista, el cristal oscuro siempre estará en mi cerebro y en mi corazón.

it sounds like True Love

This theme gives me so much nostalgia omg I used to watch this movie all the time as a kid and this has always been one of my favorite themes

Cannot wait till August 30th 2019 for the Netflix series! The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance! Just doesn’t get much better than this! :-D

@Johnlindsey289

5 жыл бұрын

That's gonna be cool

@fuddy_duddy

5 жыл бұрын

Johnlindsey289 I know, I can’t wait. Hehe

@justkeepbreathing3018

4 жыл бұрын

Its so good. I cried every episode, its pretty dark and intense. But its amazing

@alexh6767

4 жыл бұрын

Best show of all time

@Johnlindsey289

3 жыл бұрын

@@justkeepbreathing3018 Fantastic show

WOW!! The moon is in Pisces the sign of melancholy and romance and this song has such a melancholy feeling like the old ROMEO and JULIET FILM in the 60/70's sigh!

@justkeepbreathing3018

4 жыл бұрын

not a coincidence 4 years later i see this and theres a pisces full moon in just a few days.

Jim Henson is an creative man, he was the puppet master, every movie he made has puppets, then one movie changed that, "Mirror Mask". Now on days, directors fear to make an movie that has an puppet

Such beautiful music, 80s music is just amazing! What I love about the Dark Crystal is the mystics and how they raised Jen but the sad part is how his master dies and the mystics become one and aren't a race anymore, the race that raised Jen is gone! eeerh :( I LOVE THE MYSTICS, I'D BE RAISED BY THEM :..>...(

@Johnlindsey289

3 жыл бұрын

I think he's the son of Rian and Deet

Love this movie & series

@Johnlindsey289

4 жыл бұрын

Me too and graphic novels

Just beautiful and sublime ♥ they could have not made this movie better.

@beatricesanfilippo6925

3 жыл бұрын

I want there will be a love theme between Rian and Deet in Dark Crystal Age of Resistance season two 😍😍😍😍😍😍

@AlwaysHarmonyy

3 жыл бұрын

@@beatricesanfilippo6925 not gonna happen,netflix canceled the show

@ambervantassel3816

3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't doubt it if a few people did IT to this song

Yeah, wonderful music by Trevor Jones

beautilful creatures and song

I love this song, it's so amazing, and I love the movie as well. this song is very powerful

@Johnlindsey289

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed it's magical

This is so lovely! I love the dark crystal! (even though the Skeksies gave me nightmares when I was litle) ;)

I'm hoping this plays when the series finishes. All the gefling dead, Skeksis win but just waiting to die, and Augrah just trying to Cleanse for her sins of giving the crystal to the skeksis. Especially noticing that Deet and Rian are dead because they are my favorite ship in the show. Its gonna be a heartbreaking ending.

@Phrogman7574

3 жыл бұрын

well, wont happen. show is cancelled

@vintage_life

3 жыл бұрын

@@Phrogman7574 I know I'm disappointed in Netflix

@t_hetty1758

2 жыл бұрын

@@vintage_life gotta hope that one day they can re pick up the show. Even if it’s just for one more season.

This music reminds me of each time I pop in that DVD in and hearing this music for The Dark Crystal blue ray lobby before playing the movie

if this doesn't sound like a soundtrack of an 80's kids fantasy movie I don't know what does

@Johnlindsey289

4 жыл бұрын

It's a classic score

Music so simple can be so beautiful.

Is sooo beatiful i remember this movie since was a kid till forever, this song always makes me guts . just had It on steelbook D

Beautiful; thank you kindly for sharing.

Completamente hermoso

Technically, "El Cristal Encantado" means "The Enchanted Crystal", but that's close enough. I love the above picture - it's what I would imagine it would be like between Jen and Kira AFTER the Crystal was healed. So sweet!

@unknowninternetuser4688

4 жыл бұрын

In spain is called "el cristal oscuro" and that mean "The dark crystal"

@mathiaskrauss1184

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I like to imagine similar

If I were searching a girlfriend ( a hopeless task) I always would compare with Kira and this romance. Meanwhile I´m in the mid 50s and still on it´s a "sacret thing" for me to call her name...

3 skesis downvoted this

@JMObyx

4 жыл бұрын

Now 4 Seksists.

@historik8367

4 жыл бұрын

5 today

@CarlosAndres-tq9sc

4 жыл бұрын

Make that 6

@lancecurry7538

3 жыл бұрын

I can imagine that Emperor SkekSo, SkekUng the Garthim Master, SkekSil the Chamberlain, SkekTek the Scientist, and SkekZok the Ritual Master were the downvoters.

@BaltanaElyanor

3 жыл бұрын

@@lancecurry7538 And the sixth is SkekErt, the Ornamentalist 😂😂

Beautiful

Christian Finnish Frostiis I genuinely love The Dark Crystal, my favorite character is SkekSil aka Chamberlain of the SkekSis. I loved also the cartoon character of Raunip in The Dark Crystal 3 part origins story made by Brian Fround the original 82y The Dark Crystal movie artist

Beautiful and magical film and musical score for a beautiful and magical childhood favorite. :)

@Johnlindsey289

2 жыл бұрын

Seen the prequel?

The love theme between Jen and Kira is similar to Han and Leia love theme:) I hope that song Come together by Matthew Hussey will be a love theme between Rian and Deet in dark crystal age of resistance season two similar to Across the stars the love theme between Anakin and Padme :)

EVERYBODY HIT THE DECK ITS SHIPPING FUEL!!!!!!!!

This is so lovely! I love the dark crystal! (even though the Skeksies gave me nightmares when I was litle) ;) can someone send me this song? Please?

Oooh thank you for this! One of my favorite childhood movies of all time ❤️ I have the one Gelfling song on a few playlists, but didn't think of any parts of the original soundtrack so this was a wonderful find!

This image of Jen and Kira is drawn in Brea's book in Age of Resistance!

que bella tonada, muy relajante y llena de paz

Une musique sublime, hâte de voir ce qu'ils vont proposer comme musique pour la série.

Tolkien's Elves are so beautiful and divine though. :{

Magnifique!!!! :,)

Can’t believe this ended up on a Xzibit album.

@Johnlindsey289

4 жыл бұрын

He must had been a fan of the movie growing up

Jesus.

wonderful!

Beautiful score and magical track, loved this movie for 33 years since i was 4 and been one of my faves and i own the 2-disc soundtrack, one of my fave soundtracks. I can't wait for the prequel show on netflix. Did you know rap artist Xzhibit used this track for his rap song Carry The Weight in 1996? when i heard that song at 14 when it came out i knew it sounded familar

🥰🥰🥰🥰

Nothing saying that our elven like ancestors weren't beautiful and divine. There are plenty of wildlife creatures that are majestic and inspiring, lions, eagles, sharks, etc. Reality will never live up to the big screen, but they certainly could have possessed visually striking characteristics far surpassing our own, e.g. greater body/facial symmetry, greater hair sheen, higher leg/body ratio, etc..

Sublime musique. Merci infiniment pour ce partage

Merveilleux

totally agree with ya!

@MikeBatman Humans have kept oral history long before the first written word, which was 4000 years ago. Just because it's not written down doesn't invalidate it. Accomplished storytellers could recite entire books worth of stories word for word.

Thanks for it.

The first thing I remember is fire 🔥 My master is teacher father and friend

une merveille

lot of bad comments, this useless kids nowa days... ty for song

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I made a piano arrangement of this piece, if you guys wanted to check it out :)

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Where did you find that beautiful drawing, please ?

@Virelf

3 жыл бұрын

Internet, long ago.

😌😌💖💖

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anna :'( miss ya

@botchalism I meant that it was hard to invalidate peoples word back in the ancient time since there was virtually no science fact and people often looked to others for explanations for the unknown and or tales of interest that they often used to give reason to their lives. Such as Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel which were stories 'written' by the Brothers Grimm for the purpose of entertaining children and also conveying a message to stay out of the woods/unknown.

@KiraJenLove "I said 'ello but that's close enough." ;)

Mystic and magic sound... could fit also in Lord of the Rings or Legend of Zelda

it's your calling

If fantastic things happened like they happen in fairy tales, they have probably gone underground because man abandoned that world with the advent of high technology.

@mathiaskrauss1184

2 жыл бұрын

Right!!

Legend of Zelda.

@unknowninternetuser4688

4 жыл бұрын

Why?

@botchalism Oral word of old I'm afraid was a lot harder to invalidate at the time since often the witnesses of aid mythical creatures were usually alone or expressing a need to impose an ideal on their common man. Most stories and pretty much all those worth remembering were constructed for the purpose of teaching a lesson or common knowledge. Fairy tales such as Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel were for example tales told to children so they wouldn't go into the forest.

@SelenaandShuichifan Same here man! Tho am I the only one who still uses Aughra's "Mouldy mildew mother of mouth-muck!" insult? lol

@angryaliens2 I used to freak my sister out by doing the Chaimberlain's whine! Tho thanks to a throat injury I can't do that anymore...I just freak my gf out by waking her up with Gollum's "My...precious" lol

The sad thing is, it sounds like the theme you'd hear where the main character's love interest dies in his arms... Guess it understates just how the Gelflings were screwed over by the Skeksis in general, and how Jen and Kira could truly be the last of their kind. Is it too much to hope that maybe there were a few more Gelfling survivors of the Garthim War than just our two heroes?

@Johnlindsey289

3 жыл бұрын

Yes maybe other gelflings fled to other places like the island of greuneaks

Adas, Duendes, Nomos en todas sus categorias van desapareciendo porque tienen que pasar al siguiente nivel que es más superior. Nuestras existencias es un largo peregrinar, . . .

Can I walk down the isle to this

I just alone with this love theme I’ll never find a girlfriend i am so unhappy

彼女 🥺❤️

Oh well? :0

do you work for the tv show "ancient aliens" ?

@MikeBatman "I'm afraid was a lot harder to invalidate" I think you mean "validate" unless you are agreeing with me. "often the witnesses of aid mythical creatures were usually alone or expressing a need to impose an ideal on their common man" I really don't see what little red riding hood (made in the 17th century) and hansel and gretel (made in the 19th century) have to do with early story telling dating back thousands of years BC.

It is soooo sad when Kira dies…

@ldon1235

5 жыл бұрын

Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg she comes back to life tho

The crazy thing is that such fantasies of dwarves, elves, orcs, hobbits might not be fantasy at all. Many variations of humans have been found ie Neanderthal = Orcs who dwell in caves are more brutish and many more times stronger then humans. Homo floresiensis nicknamed the hobbit for being shorter then a meter have remains dating back a mere 12,000 years ago, so their existence is highly likely to have interacted with early humans. Such fantasy writings may have merely been reporting...

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can someone tell me when this scene was?

@cadror26

Жыл бұрын

That's just fanart.

@funtime_error_

Жыл бұрын

@@cadror26 I know, I meant the music from what scene or where it was used, or If that is also new

@cadror26

Жыл бұрын

@@funtime_error_ It starts a few seconds after Jen encounters Fizzgig.

@botchalism Written word doesn't date back more then several thousand years before christ I highly doubt what we see in myth and stories to be anything more then metaphors for humans need to explain the unkown.

No, should I?

@tomascostero9962

6 жыл бұрын

botchalism you whached it?

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