re: Deep State Part 2: Hollywood:The spell they cast.. (pg16 Epstein = Eyes Wide Shut)

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The new Dark Crystal show on Netflix shares a lot of themes with this thread. They use magic and technology to steal life force from young child slaves in order to live forever.

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I was coming here to post this...

Lots of on point symbolism


Spoilers below:








https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/netflix-dark-crystal-prequel-about-billionaires-scare-kids

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THE DARK CRYSTAL PREQUEL IS A HORROR ABOUT EVIL BILLIONAIRES THAT WILL SCARE KIDS — AND THAT'S THE POINT

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Around the time I started watching the screeners for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a story in the New York Times detailed the late financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's quest to fund research into eugenics and largely discredited medical techniques that might have allowed him to live forever.

Then, the Amazon went up in flames, a crisis driven by greedy ranchers and a government run by a fringe-right conspiracy theorist who rejected the laughable pittance being offered by the world's most powerful economies.

And through it all, a civil war raged here at home in the U.S., stoked by leaders seemingly focused only on their own profits. I could have used a distraction, but the Netflix puppet show about a mystical world filled with elfin-like heroes and adorable furry creatures offered no relief. Instead, I saw reflections of these real-world nightmares, including deceit, environmental-destruction, and death.

Was I reading too far into it, my mind warped by the onslaught of tragedies presented by cable news? As I interviewed the cast and artists behind the show, I told them about my view of it. Co-executive producer and writer Jeffrey Addiss had the most succinct answer: "We wanted it to be upsetting." Mission accomplished.

**Spoiler Warning: There are spoilers for Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance below**

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In the new series, set long before the original 1982 movie, the elfin Gelfling are being tricked by the ruling Skeksis, a small cabal of giant, snot-filled, vulture-esque villains. The Skeksis' mostly hands-off dictatorship begins to turn when their sniveling scientist discovers they can grow more powerful and even approach immortality by draining and consuming the "essence" of the noble Gelfling. The first episode ends with what seems to be one of the two Gelfling protagonists having her essence drained, a torturous process that has her screaming until she turns to dust.

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So, I wasn't crazy, even if Grillo-Marxuach didn't come out and overtly endorse my Epstein comparison. And that's fair — the show was in the can long before the extent of the late financier/rapist's nightmarish misdeeds became public. But the show is filled with nods to our larger troubled times, from a dying planet (the Darkening that comes for Thra) to Gelflings being kept in cages to power-addicted Skeksis chanting "Drain! Drain! Drain!" as Gelflings are tortured in latter episodes.

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The civil war between Gelflings is equally unsettling — some are misguided and want to stay loyal to the Emperor, becoming pawns in his plan and guaranteeing their own demise. Sounds familiar.

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Very, just not the way the author of this article likely sees it...





Deeper dive:

https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/30/20838343/dark-crystal-netflix-age-of-resistance-skeksis-creation-myths-gelfling-mystics-urru-aughra