He Knows Too Much: Rian becomes the primary target of the Skeksis, as he now knows what they're truly up to, that is, draining Gelfling life essence.Unfortunately for the Skeksis, a few Gelflings do witness their cruelty this episode. Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: The Gelflings are on the whole good people who have complete faith in the Skeksis, partly because they can't imagine anyone being so cruel or deceptive unless they witness it with their own eyes. To a slightly lesser extent, Brea seeing the necklace around her mother's neck just as she is about to share what she saw in the library.The spitter escaping from its cage, which drives the plot with Rian and inadvertently leads to Mira's death.They then unknowingly share their Last Kiss before pursuing the Spitter, which results in Mira entering the catacombs, being captured and then drained of her essence by the Skeksis. First Kiss: Mira and Rian are implied to have had theirs in their shared flashback.Fainting Seer: Deet after the Sanctuary Tree shows her a series of moments from the future.Evil Laugh: skekOk cackles as Brea rides in the carriage with him and skekLach.However, those emotions don't last long once they get a taste of the essence Even Evil Has Standards: When skekTek stabs Mira with his instruments to drain her essence, most of the other Skeksis (with the exception of skekSo who laughs maniacally at the sight) initially react in horror at the sight, with skeVar the General crying out "What have you done?!".Defector from Decadence: Princess Brea becomes this when she realizes her royal family's wealth and status comes from shaking down poorer Gelflings for "tithes" same as the Skeksis.When skekTek was subjected to the Crystal's essence-draining power during his experiment-gone-wrong earlier, his essence is shown to be a very dark brownish color, a reflection of the Skeksis' evil. That of the Gelfling is shown to be milky white, reflecting their purity. Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The essence of living creatures.Cassandra Truth: The Skeksis are not too concerned about Rian seeing them kill Mira, since they think no other Gelfling will believe him.Brainwashed and Crazy: The Darkening corrupts the mind of the creatures living in the caves of Grot, and makes them aggressively attack everything on sight.Princess Brea also witnesses the Skeksis' greed and cruelty when the Scroll-Keepr pressures a farmer's wife to give her mother's necklace as a tithe (on top of what little crops they could grow during a blight), and she sees her mother wear that same necklace later. Awful Truth: Much to his horror, Rian witnesses the true nature of the Skeksis when they drain Mira's essence.Here, he goes to Ha'rar with skekLach the Collector to collect the Gelflings' tithe, has a more defined personality and dialogues with Brea. Ascended Extra: The Skeksis Scroll-Keeper, skekOk, didn't have much to do in The Dark Crystal bar cheering with the others, freaking out with the others and feasting with the others, and barely said anything.He reminds skekTek that there are beings who have the closest connection to the life force of Thra and must therefore contain the strongest life essence. until skekSil the Chamberlain points out that it can be used to drain the essence of other creatures of Thra. skekTek reverses the polarity of the Crystal in an attempt to force it to give new life, which has an opposite effect of Vampiric Draining of his life essence.
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