The Inconquerable, number 481, October 2019.

Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

And this episode is the latest in actually kind of a series of episodes where we go back in time to talk about a film that is

beloved by a lot of people who grew up in this case in the early 80s. It's 1982's The Dark Crystal,

which has recently, there was a prequel series on Netflix. We're not going to talk about that,

except maybe obliquely, but I haven't seen it and we're not going to really talk about it. So don't worry. We're going to talk about that, except maybe obliquely, but I haven't seen it,

and we're not going to really talk about it, so don't worry. We're going to talk about the

1982 film with lots of puppets directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. And this is also the

latest in the series of podcast episodes where, although I grew up in the early 80s and

am well aware of what the dark crystal is until about 12 hours ago, I hadn't seen it.

So this will be interesting. Let me introduce the people who presumably have seen the dark crystal

more recently than the 21st century. Anthony Johnston is here. Hello.

I am indeed here. Good. And yes, this is one of my favorite movies of all time, but we'll

talk more about that later. I hope so. Kelly Gamont is also here. Hello.

Hi, I have seen it more recently and probably more often.

I don't want to name check, but I did get an opportunity to meet Agra and Jen and Kira in person at the Seattle Pop Culture Museum when they had the Jim Henson exhibit.

Did you meet the puppets or the people? The puppets. You or the puppets? The puppets are people, Jason. Yes. They're real. Like, yeah, and a mystic. How dare you?

Yes. Mysac Chouyan is also here. Hello. Trial by stone.

There, I have some thoughts of the, uh, the links between the Empire Strikes

back and the dark crystal, but, uh, there's some, there's some Yoda-esque, uh, stuff

going on here.

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