For The Dark Crystal, see here.
Fridge Brilliance
- In a blink or miss it moment, Naia exclaims that she is the eldest daughter of Maudra Laesid, who, likely due to finding out her son was nearly drained of his essence, joins Maudra Fara in refusing to crown Seladon as the new All-Maudra.
- Onica being protective of Brea when she's meeting with Cadia is not because she's a Vapran princess, but she's the little sister of Tavra, her girlfriend.
- SkekGra the Heretic wears light clothes and urGoh the Wanderer has dark skin. What better way to show that Skeksis and urRu are part of each other, down to blurring the visual lines of light and dark?
- The Heretic and the Hunter are both in much better shape than their fellow Skeksis (the Hunter especially), this is because they both live away from the self-destructive hedonistic lifestyle and corruptive crystal draining of their peers.
- Aughra warns that if Stone-in-the-Wood falls, "Great Sacrifices will have to be made." Come two episodes later, Aughra comes to make a deal with the Skeksis, her life to save the Hunters', in exchange for the imprisoned Gelfling to go free. She was the Great Sacrifice. Lucky for her, it all works out for her in the end.
- SkekTek is the Scientist and is good with technology. His name is SkekTek. It almost seems like an intentional pun (tek = tech).
- The use of the Trials, of which two have been seen so far, being Trial by Stone and Trial by Air. In a possible more traditional fantasy setting, a trial would be a trial to the death or at least a 1v1 fighting match, to whoever yields first. Based on what was seen with by Stone and implied with by Air, however, it is more a display of strength and ability. This makes sense for two reasons. The first, while death is natural killing is not and no one, especially Gelfling, would want to willingly or accidentally kill another. They would rather show off their abilities to show they are capable. The other reason, more so on the Skeksis side, is that they are afraid of death. So of course the trial would not be to the death either, because none of them want to be killed. They would also rather show off their abilities to each other to prove how strong they are. It is also hinted the Skeksis may have implemented these trials for the reason of avoiding killing one another and passed it to the Gelfling, who adopted the concept for their own.
- Skektek throwing the Gruenak down the shaft mirrors his own death in the film.
- The Skeksis stripping Seladon is both karmic and horrifying as it is. It also mirrors their treatment of the Chamberlain in the film as their banishment rite, pretty much spelling out that they reject her and her Skeksis-wearing antics.
- When The Collector declares "This face was beautiful once, but then came knowledge", it initially seems to be Blatant Lies. But when one considers that the Skeksis used to be UrSkeks (or rather, they used to be half of them, existing as combined beings with the Mystics), it becomes possible that The Collector wasn't lying. It may also count as Foreshadowing. The "knowledge" in question may be a reference to the previous Grand Conjunction that split the UrSkeks into the Skeksis and The Mystics, and the fact that, by becoming two beings, the positive and negative aspects of the UrSkeks are now laid bare and out in the open.
- As Deet tries to absorb the Darkening, the other Skesis are cheering and jeering, thinking Deet's just being suicidal in trying to protect her friends. However, the one Skesis who's not acting this way is the Emperor. Since he has first hand experience with the Darkening, he was probably surprised and later terrified to find that Deet can reign in that dark power and use the Darkening for her own benefit.
- skekTek's beloved bird, Sidetic, is kept in a rather small cage, but it's never locked. He, like his owner, could easily leave a situation that's growing more traumatic for them by the day, but neither of them ever do.
- It really makes one shocked when one realizes that the urRu who spend time away from the ones in hiding, are the oddballs of the group. Perhaps it's a way of showing how individual they are.
- urGoh the Wanderer is unorthodox and goofy, compared to his urRu brethren, which mirrors his counterpart, skekGra's goofiness.
- urVa the Archer is heroic, motivated and willing to kill his own Skeksis, and ultimately himself, if it means the safety of others.
- urLii the Storyteller is greedy and a bit of a trickster who delights in messing with haughty ones such as Ordon.
- The reason why skekShod wasn't mentioned amongst the Skeksis who could join was because of skekShod's pompous statement offending skekSo.
- While it is definitely possible, it could also be because they're looking for adept fighters. skekUng the Garthim-Master for obvious reasons, he's the replacement General, skekNa the Slave-Master has been said to be a formidable fighter, skekSa The Mariner is a pirate and thus very skilled at fighting, and the Ritual-Master asked if it's a good idea to bring in skekLi the Satirist, it's unknown how well the Satirist is good in a fight which is why he asked.
- skekSil's way of talking isn't just a shoutout to the original movie when you think about it. As he intentionally makes himself seem dumb to others to better manipulate them, he speaks in broken sentences to further drive the point home. Though there are a couple of times when he's being especially malicious that he starts speaking in full sentences.skekSil: (on releasing Rian) Go then. Run! Have your war! But it will be on Rian's head when all gelfling die because you chose to run... again.
- Similarly his simpering, whining tone of voice is implied to be a least partly put on, as he occasionally slips into something harsher when he's especially angered or vicious, for example when he tells the General, "You. Took. My. Seat."
- The Hunter and the Archer are both more efficient and powerful than their peers because they each have a bit of their opposite in them - the Hunter has some Mystic self-discipline instead of being a slave to his passions like other Skeksis, and the Archer has some Skeksis will and drive instead of being completely passive like other Mystics. This reinforces the franchise's theme of balance between extremes; skekMal and urVa are more powerful because they are less pure and single-natured.
Fridge Horror
- When skekLach and skekVar are killed, two unseen Mystics (urSen the Monk and urMa the Peacekeeper, respectively) also die somewhere off screen. The fact that Deet kills skekLach in spite of being one of the few people who know about the Skeksis/Mystic life link means that she understands the consequences of her actions afterwards.
- Alternatively, the effect of the Darkening upon her mind may be causing her to disregard the consequences.
- When discussing punishments for the Scientist, skekLach eagerly says “It’s been many a trine since one last saw the Peeper Beetle.” She implies this has happened before. Come to think of it, skekNa has an eyepatch doesn’t he?
- The Scientist reacting violently to the Gruenak slaves shoving a basket over his head wasn't out of increased anger at their mutiny. It hit a Trauma Button for him, likely triggering the memory of the headgear the Skesis used on him for the peeper beetle.
- The Chamberlain may be a devious liar with no limits to his evil, but he's proven absolutely right that Rian's rebellion would lead to the near extinction of the gelflings.
