What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[MsMarvelDuckie]

As I understand it, the series is set around the time of the Great Conjunction BEFORE the one in Jen's time, so about a 1000 trine (years) earlier. Though it was interesting that Deet saw that vision of Jen and the Crystal, the hiding of baby Jen when the Garthim wiped out the last Gelfling village, etc. I think that was why she left after the final battle, in addition to her drawing the Darkening into herself.

Also, it is almost certain that Jen was a Stonewood, and Kira is Vapran. So Brea may he an ancestor to her? I wish I had bought that book when I saw it ages ago, but I do think some of the details from it and the series are a bit different- for one, Rian apparently had a sister in the book, but she wasn't in the movie.

As a related gear grind, Today I ran across an absolute troll on YouTube while looking through the comments under a clip of the ending scene of the original movie, where the Skeksis and Urru rejoined. The dude was just sh**ting all over the film based on a 30+ year old memory of seeing it in 1982, so basically having watched it ONE time in a likely crowded and noisy (because kids) theater. I spent a good bit of time explaining why his analysis was full of crap, but- well you know the type. A hater who is absolutely CONVINCED that their opinion is the only "correct" view, and refuses to even consider they could be wrong about even the most basic plot and theme points. It would be funny, if not for the fact he was being a prick about why he thought it was "slow, plodding, and boring", and had a message of "magic fix-all". Which is both oversimplified(and wrong about the magic) and basically ignores half the movie.