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    The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance

    Oct 27, 2019 4 minutes

    1 THE PEEPER BEETLE

    Dan Jolin: Much like the original 1982 movie, admirably refuses to treat its family audience like delicate little flowers, serving up a squirming platter of creep-out moments, brutal violence and torture — like all the best classic fairy tales. The most memorable and distressing comes at the end of the second episode, when the Scientist (Mark Hamill) is punished for letting Rian (Taron Egerton) escape with the Essence. First, a skeletal cage is placed over his beaky head, in a disturbing echo of the Room 101 rat cage from Orwell’s . Then a›skittering bug is released onto the shrieking Scientist’s face.

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