Reddit mentions of The Dark Crystal

\> Is there going to be a second season?

No word yet. But I think they clearly left the possibility for another season or two open, storywise.

If the old movie interested you, there's actually tons of Henson and Creature-shop related fantasy stuff from the '80s to the '00s out there for streaming at the moment, particularly on Starz and Amazon Prime. (Cutting and pasting from an older post I made about this:)

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Feature-film wise, nobody has Return to Oz, The Witches, or Labyrinth for sub, only rental. But they might be worth finding. And if you’re a Neil Gaiman fan, there’s also Mirrormask, the movie he and Dave McKean did for Henson. But here's the stuff I found on sub or free:

• The Dark Crystal (1982). Amazon Prime. Netflix.
  
• Dreamchild (1985). Amazon Prime. Dennis Potter screenplay (so not really for kids), drama about Lewis Carroll and Alice Hargreaves. Creature Shop's first time out making creatures for other movie makers. They recreated Tenniel illustrations.
  
• Jim Henson's the Storyteller (1987). Starz. Traditional folktales and fairytales, written by Anthony Minghella. Truly stellar list of cast/directors (Steve Barron, Charles Sturridge, Jon Amiel, etc.) [youtube clip from "The Soldier and Death"] Also a chance to see a pre-Sharpe Sean Bean. Spoiler: He doesn't die. :)
  
• Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1990) Starz. four-episode follow-up. (Written by Nigel Williams, with John Madden as one of the directors). A bit harsher than the first series and Michael Gambon replaced John Hurt as the storyteller. [youtube clip from "Icarus & Daedalus”]
  
• Monster Maker (1989). Amazon Prime. A very British love letter to the Creature Shop (Jim Henson Hour). An English boy wants to become a movie creature maker like his American hero, who’s set up a creature shop near his hometown.
  
• Living With Dinosaurs (1990). Amazon Prime. Also Jim Henson Hour. Think of it as a prequel/sequel to Truly Madly Deeply. Also written by Anthony Minghella, and also stars Juliet Stevenson and Michael Maloney. No ghosts, but a toy dinosaur that comes to life when the grownups aren't around, Calvin & Hobbes style.
  
• Farscape (1999-2002). Amazon Prime. Science fiction adventure showrun by Rockne S. O'Bannon, with Creature Shop creatures. Filmed in Australia.
  
  A ton of the late-'90s/early 2000s Hallmark/Henson fantasy miniseries (Dinotopia, The Odyssey, Jason and the Argonauts, Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, The 10th Kingdom, Merlin, etc.) are up on Amazon Prime: but here are my favorites:
  
  
• Gulliver’s Travels (1996). Hallmark Movies Now. Directed by Charles Sturridge. The only adaptation I know that also does Laputa and the Houyhnhnms. Ted Danson is Gulliver. Sturridge would later use similar scene transitions in Longitude.
  
• Arabian Nights (2000). Amazon Prime. Directed by Steve Barron. Lots of British actors, including Dougray Scott as Scheherazade’s sultan, Rufus Sewell as Ali Baba, Jim Carter as J'afar, and Alan Bates as the Storyteller. Also the only time I've seen anyone take Aladdin back to its Chinese roots.
  
• Dreamkeeper (2003). Amazon Prime. Directed by Steve Barron. Based on Native American legends.
  
• Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as Fairy Tale (2003). Amazon Prime. Possibly notable as one of the many times Simon Callow played Charles Dickens (it wasn't just Doctor Who where he did that).
  
  And if you just want Henson/muppet stuff:
  
  
• Fraggle Rock. HBO Now/HBO Go. The show Jim Henson created to bring about world peace. Showrun by the late great Jerry Juhl. And the first HBO original ever made.
  
• Song of the Cloud Forest, Amazon Prime. A small rainforest frog wants to find his mate before he becomes extinct (Jim Henson Hour).
  
• Lighthouse Island, Amazon Prime. Canadian prod’n; a young man is on the edge of an odd romance (Jim Henson Hour).
  
• Dog City, Amazon Prime. Gumshoe detective parody with muppet dogs. (Jim Henson Hour).
  
• Wubbulous World of Doctor Seuss. Starz.
  
• Mother Goose Stories, Starz.

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|title|The Dark Crystal|
|plot|Another planet, another time. 1000 years ago the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos has began! The evil race of grotesque birdlike lizards the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. Meanwhile the orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of the peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal which gives the Skesis their power and restore the balance of the universe.|
|consensus|The Dark Crystal's narrative never quite lives up to the movie's visual splendor, but it remains an admirably inventive and uniquely intense entry in the Jim Henson canon.|
|rated|PG|
|released|17 Dec 1982|
|director|Jim Henson, Frank Oz|
|writer|David Odell (screenplay), Jim Henson (story)|
|actors|Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz|
|language|English|
|awards|Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.|
|links|movie on amazon|
|tags|adventure, family, fantasy|
|metrics|youtube plays: 17,036, radd.it score: 7.5|


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