A Brief History of the Gelfling (Dark Crystal Explained)

[@jhon1406]

After knowing the Skeksis split the clans, that moment between Brea, Rian, Deet, Gurjin/Kaia, + Kylan seems so much more impactful because 5 different clans probably hadn't come together like that in hundreds of trine. I feel like Sifa ended up with the least representation in the show + I hope they bring some characters to the table in s2.

[@gamerstheater1187]

It’s also believed that the gelflings made the clans themselves

[@NilasJunkyard]

I was 13 when I first watched the movie and was in love. Now, finally there is more of this beautiful world and I feel like a child again. Until the second season comes out I'll stay here and dreamfast with you.

[@buchan448]

is there a second season coming though?

[@NilasJunkyard]

Even tho there are only rumors, there most likely will be a second season and it will take a long time until we hear from it again. www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance-season-2-netflix-renewal-status-release-date-what-to-expect/

[@buddyguy4723]

@@NilasJunkyard I got some bad news kid

[@NilasJunkyard]

@@buddyguy4723 I already know u_u

[@buddyguy4723]

@@NilasJunkyard very sad. I hope some other network picks it up.

[@iamthatis396]

I like to think that at the end of the movie, when the urSkeks gave the light of the crystal back to the remaining gelfling, that the absorbed souls of the gelflings were returned back to Thra and the species came back over time, because they were absorbed into the crystal. I also like to think that more than just Jen and Kira survived the Garthim wars, maybe 100 at most, but more than those two, due to statistics and pure hope and because it’s depressing if only two lived and the souls of the others weren’t returned back to the planets

[@emoellieroks]

What I really want to know, especially now I'm reading the sequel comics, is how the Gelfling 're-emerged', as the wiki page describes it. Basically, how did the Gelfling repopulate Thra?

[@gamerstheater1187]

Alabama

[@tompearce5418]

There would have been other communities of survivors hidden far from the Castle. That, or they set up a foreign exchange program with the titular characters from Elfquest.

[@ulfberht4431]

4:48 “As we get ready to embark on season 2” Yeah, about that…

[@CosmicMerlin]

That was a wonderful description covering the story of the Gelfling's existence within the world of Thra. Thank you for another video covering The Dark Crystal ⍢

[@DarkCrystalConjunction]

3:20 I see how you changed what Carn says there! :D haha nice. Anyways, nice overview.

[@Nortrodamas]

Wow, You went from 100 subs to 2k in short time. Congrats! Love your content!

[@GamerGoop]

I tried to resist clicking, I got 20 minutes in. lmao, I'm way too into this.

[@CosplayCore]

uh... This is a five minute long video.

[@DreamfastwithMe]

Thank you so much! Many more to come!

[@GamerGoop]

@@CosplayCore yeah, I meant I waited 20 minutes to click, haha.

[@stacyardus3898]

@@CosplayCore ye i was like waaaat

[@greenergrass4060]

Honestly, if "Age of Resistance" is a prequel, we already know the gelflings will eventuay fail and all die at the end anyways. And i find that deppressing in foresight.

[@invisiblejaguar1]

Unless something happens that splits the show off into an alternate timeline.

[@iona2225]

Or reveals that maybe other Gelfling survived? Hiding somewhere undisclosed to either Skeksis or Uru?

[@DreamfastwithMe]

True, but its always nice to see how the actual story played out, and they're giving this amazing universe on-screen life again. I'll take anything they have.

[@vladcrow4225]

@@iona2225 Due to their civilization levels (approx early iron age) and population size - likely yes. Anyway, skeksis even with garthim are to few to kill off the entire race in few decades. My bet is on some sifan, or maybe dousan stragglers - everyone else are wiped out for sure.

[@libertinarey]

@@vladcrow4225 I'm a new convert to the dark crystal mythos (gave the show a watch and got SUPER into it, such a refreshing show, watched the 1980s dark crystal movie for the first time just yesterday!) so forgive any ignorance and newbishness on my part but it does seem to me really unlikely as well that every gelfling got wiped out. In this vid it is said gelflings colonized far and wide, even with the crystal bats and those beetle soldier thingies, I just can't see how they could have hunted down EVERY gelfling save 2 on the whole of Thra. Considering how kira survived (being hidden in a tree), there's room for other stragglers, besides the sifan or dousan, the grottan who live underground should be especially hard for the skeksis to completely eradicate. I'm willing to believe the vaprans and stonewood clans are 100% gone since they were closest to the skeksis center of power but all the other clans have decent survival odds. Also the mystics didn't know about Kira, so they clearly ain't omniscient and even the narrator of the 1980s film says ONE gelfling survived but we then have 2, so that isn't 100% accurate information either. Overall I just don't see the proof the gelfling have been completely wiped out, the only sources saying that (to my knowledge) were proven to be wrong.

[@crozraven]

It feels like this particular story of Urskeks origins might actually be in the next season of TDCAoG as flashback scenes.

[@samoanchaos684]

So the Ghelflings were unwilling the reson for their suffering? Damn that's deep.

[@sammclean8002]

3:20 Great plug for the channel 😅 Love your work and thank you for researching this so diligently!

[@rathbone4561]

Just found this channel and love every min of it,ty.

[@DarthVil]

I'd love it if you'd do a video that details the Gruenaks and the Arathim. Were both races driven to extinction, or were they just driven to near-extinction? Is there even any material on them outside of the confines of the series?

[@CosplayCore]

This would be great. On a side note... I'm going to the Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance exhibition at the Museum of The Moving Picture this December with family and I noticed already that some people who had been there were finding information not provided elsewhere. For example, the little fuzzball with a beak inside SkekTek's lab has a name! ^_^ And the exhibition DOES have the Gruenaks on display, so maybe there will be something more to learn. If there is, I will find a way to let people know! :)

[@geegarcia7858]

Good request. I'm 90% sure that whatever Gruenaks were left in AoR were rounded up and butchered up to combine with the bodies of captured arathim... until they were wiped out leaving a select number of Garthim soldiers. I assumed whatever Arathim were left behind were overpowered and killed off by the much stronger and bigger Garthim.

[@DarthVil]

@@geegarcia7858 That's possible! (likely, actually) I'd still love to know an official answer *if one exists*!

[@LABeam-mr8pf]

Love the channel! The videos are great!

[@DreamfastwithMe]

Thank you!

[@JWB1979]

You should make video on love life and relationships Gelflings have with each other.

[@geegarcia7858]

Is anyone else who saw the Original movie steady tryna figure out who Jen & Kira's parents are out of all the Gelfling characters in the new Netflix series? I'm convinced Rian is 100% Jen's father but I cannot figure out if Deet or Brea ends up being his mother. Poor Deet is burdened with the Darkening so the last episode of the season kinda made me lean toward counting her out but we never know... Kira's parents, at least 1 of them is obviously another Vapran, due to her hair & skin. I hope eventually in one of the next seasons(fingers crossed) we get somewhat of a clue to who become the parents of the last two members of the Gelfling race.

[@DreamfastwithMe]

I will definitely be creating more videos on this soon!

[@mystikcrystalstone8525]

Perhaps the farmer couples with the pendant could be Kira’s parents, so far they’re the only Vapra couples.

[@JP0411]

They could just be survivors of their clan! Strong chance rian is Jenson father yes but rian may have just gon on to have a child with another stone wood/ the other dark haired clan.

[@DarkCrystalConjunction]

0:59 Where did you read that the Vapra clan was already in existence during the first age (before the UrSkeks arrived)?

[@kiddfaith4397]

We can’t blame Gyr too much for his sad Ursecks song, as it only reminded the “dark one” that first sang it of his grief and pain. It was Raunip who continued to taunt the dark one at the last moment when the Urseck tried to focus and cast his negative emotions aside, so that as the light from the crystal pierced the Ursecks, the dark one’s rage and grief was renewed and created the unbalance. Raunip carried guilt over that for a long while, before trying to make up for the harm he did by leading the miners to safety at a great lava field, at a great personal loss.

[@miltonvalenzuelasr.5350]

Prepare for Season 2?? You know something we don't?

[@DreamfastwithMe]

I like to think i do haha. But seriously, you think they would really introduce 7 new clans, tease everyone with this show, and thats it? No way. I say at least 2 more seasons are coming.

[@miltonvalenzuelasr.5350]

You made it seem like you had details lol.

[@clockworkofficial6005]

Here’s a fun question, if you where a skeksis, what would be your title?

[@LocksAndChains]

Edgelord.

[@discoskull]

SkekMat the Propagandist/ urMot the Artist

[@acediadekay3793]

SkekCheck The Observer

[@hj6507]

SkekJes the Slumberer

[@altodomino2721]

SkekAnon tfw no gf

[@oonaghreid9569]

Can you do a video about Jen and Kira

[@DreamfastwithMe]

I will add that to my list!

[@omegasynth2775]

HOL' UP... AUGHRA HAS A SON?

[@razorramone63139]

"Had". Past tense. :/

[@therestingrancor8259]

SEASON TWO..... 🥺😢😭

[@jacobnye4490]

how did the gelfling repopulate thra after the crystal was healed. there were only two of them at that point, right?

[@amongruins4661]

Season 2? Good luck with that.

[@melvinat0r]

So after the division there are how many types of beings

[@DreamfastwithMe]

Many, including all the creatures and different life in all forms.

[@Sinastyr]

Podlings are my most treasure race. Pod-life!

[@christionpulliam9870]

Dude next season we should have jarra Jen story made in a flashback then we could also see ranuip augras son

[@deniseallisonstout1901]

This was weird and now I’m freaked out by gelflings ick

[@Johnlindsey289]

What about Deet? and how do you feel abou the Na'Vi in Avatar?

[@JP0411]

All this would have been solved had they killed or wounded the urgoh! What happens to them, happens to the skeskis right?

[@Sawrattan]

1. The Gelfling kill in self-defence but are too gentle to kill another being in this way. 2. The Ur-Ru may be 'good' but they also passively want to reunite with the Skeksis, so they will not harm themselves if it jeopardises the UrSkeks' reunification.

[@jamesfranxx6151]

if there are only two left in dark crystal how are there so many of them in the comics after the movie?

[@DreamfastwithMe]

From my understanding, a lot of time has passed since the events of the movie. Also, there are a few theories about more Gelfling having survived the wars.

[@jamesfranxx6151]

@@DreamfastwithMe well better than my idea of it just being extreme incest.

[@jamesfranxx6151]

@@DreamfastwithMe you need at least 200 people to create a viable genetic pool to have no side issues later on. and even with those 200 you have to enact a breeding program to get the most varied you can. with 500 you can have normal relationships with no "forced" mating couples. with 5,000 you don't need a breeding program at all. it's hard to judge how many of them there are in the netflix show you see them pretty populated and it's implied there are a good number of them spread out. in the comics it appears they have clustered together to more or less rebuild the clans to a point which would help allot with a light handed breeding program of the likes that were common among humans in times of old where a man/woman was encouraged to find a mate outside of there village

[@Sawrattan]

@@jamesfranxx6151 somehow I don't think the usual rules of genetics/incest work on Thra. I mean the Urskeks couldn't reproduce, and Aughra produced a son without a mate.

[@farahal-naqeeb3604]

Good

[@AngelEmfrbl]

We all know where it ends; the movie has laid the path, so we're seeing the beginning of the end of their race basically.

[@droopsmoop]

Yea its kinda depressing to know that the series won't actually end well and most of the gelflings will probanly die off, onscreen or offscreen between the series and film.

[@zoesdada8923]

So, the urskeks came to thra and caused the eventual extinction of the gelflings.

[@jagkommerintepaettnamnfort3087]

Age of Resistance can’t line up to the movie because in the movie the Gelfling had been nearly exterminated by the garthims and in age of resistance the gnurlocs are extinct so the Skeksis can’t create enough garthims.

[@amoloeaygrolo4132]

I think SkekTek will use other creatures to build the garthim. The one you see in the series also has blue eyes, while in the movie they have purple eyes.

[@natebush8217]

"Gruenaks," friend. It's spelled Gruenaks. ;)

[@jagkommerintepaettnamnfort3087]

Eran vanrijn you might be right but the Gelfling resistance should be able to kill the Skeksis before SkekTek find a new creature to build Garthims of

[@conradmonson30]

Eran vanRijn yeah, I was wondering how they were going to make more if the Gruenaks were nearly extinct in the movie. I assumed that there were secretly more of them and that the eyes were purple because of the darkening.

[@conradmonson30]

Vilhelm Landerman Nurlocs (sp?) were the large caterpillar like creatures in Grot

[@stacyardus3898]

the urskeks made them advanced, and the skeksis inslaved them

[@tinahustler7544]

What can we do I cannot accept not knowing what happened makes me physically ill on flick I've been stabbed in the stomach every time I think about how do not and is not already a second season unlike someone else said you don't have to make it a high-budget puppet movie even though you're already have everything pretty much made already so I don't see how they would be much material cuz she just maybe labor and feeling excetera be awesome play make a cartoon for a string puppet show in a cardboard box shot on a flip phone I don't give a crap I need more I didn't know about these comic books but I need like a show I don't understand why it was canceled if it was because of the expense you already have everything made everything you need besides film and perhaps labor materials skeksis painting hair just use Stone in the would you probably will need the scientist lab and probably obviously the room where they stand around the crystal really don't see any of much more divorce props you've already used don't care if you use a green screen how heretic did his puppet show I volunteer free labor skillet artist sculptor innovator

[@brandonjamessharp]

Vapra not vaper. I enjoy your videos, but I honestly cringe everytime I hear you say vaper clan.

[@DreamfastwithMe]

I actually didn't say vaper haha, i said "Vaypra." There is some debate to the pronunciation in our language, because it has the "ae" symbol. But going by the show, yes, its "Vapra."

[@thedorku9500]

Dreamfast with Me you mean the æ symbol?

[@yansideabacoa6257]

So basically colonialism

[@cartoongirl211]

“As we get ready for season 2..” 🥲🥲🥲