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LET'S TALK ABOUT AGE OF RESISTANCE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- 🎁 PATREON / caitlinkoi
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At long last, another film review. This took about a month, hopefully part 2 won't take as long.
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The nightmare fuel for me was when the Emperor crumbles... and I make vids too so I know how long editing take... and yours is amazing! Thank you for all the hard work you put into this. And btw, you can check out my lore playlist if you want to get more into that background background stuff (I also got a playlist with behind the scenes stuff,... I see you like that based on your Labyrinth docu-watching!). YOU DZENPO!
OMG! I watched almost your entire channel while writing my script! It was so helpful! Thank you sooooo so so much! ✨
Glad you enjoyed, more to come.
Caitlin Koi where’s part 2?
Even though I've said this already, this video is freaking amazing! The editing is fantastic as always, and it was honestly really interesting hearing you talk about the design of the puppets ^^
DEFINITELY gonna watch Age of resistance because of this video, and I'm looking forward to part two!
Wait when did you change your name to Spearmint?
@@peterarnaldo2418 what?
oh, i watched the premiere for like, 24 minutes instead of doing homework. Worth it
Ikr?
I thought Rian was the best puppet and the best puppeteered.
*The best character in the show is ALL the characters in the show.*
First watched the original movie over a year ago, and recently rewatched it with my sister. Your praise of the Netflix series is all I need to go watch it like a dozen times.
All your hard work on this video was soooooooooooo
worth it, thanks so much! You are a blessing
Her hard works are always worth it
*tHe DaRk fLiPpInG CrYsTaL*
-KOI 2019
Great video, I loved that you got in depth into puppeteering ! I’m a fan of this art form and I’m even learning it, but there are not so much videos talking about this important aspect of the show...
But I don’t have the same opinion on Rian since he is one of my favourite characters in the show. I’m pretty disappointed that you don’t talk about his character other than his introduction and his puppet’s design...but hey, we can’t go in depth on everyone (But you made so good presentations of each character, and when it went on Rian...I was sad XD). I was myself not thrilled by him at first for the same reasons, but he grew on me as the show went on.
Personally, I admire his puppeteer’s (Neil Sterenberg) work on him. Brea is really expressive because her chore puppeteer Alice Dinnean controlled herself her character’s facial expressions, giving a more natural feel to it, because Brea is an intellectual character and we have to see what she is thinking. But sometimes, it felt like she was just floating and not actually walking. Neil, on the other hand, decided to do it the old way : having someone else controlling the expressions. Why ? Because he wanted to focus on his body movements, Rian is a more physical and visceral character going into action and strong emotions which can be expressed through his body. As an animation fan, I know that we instinctively go to the face to seek an emotion (mainly because of the Disney/Pixar heritage) but puppetry is another form of expression. I watched some puppet stage plays where they don’t have any facial expression (sometimes they didn’t even have a face !) and are still very expressive and alive thanks to a strong physicality and body language. I think it’s Rian’s case. There is a strong sense of balance, rhythm, weight and breath on his performance and a great palette of movements going naturally from calm and slow to fast and nervous. A lot of emotion were conveyed by his breath and he even have some ticks attributed to his personality like how he shifts his weight from leg to leg when nervous. For me, it was outstanding ! When we think about it, there are people in real life who express themselves more through their bodies than their faces.
And yeah, I agree with his bangs and smile, but it’s more of a design problem. But there is scenes where his face is actually very expressive ! For exemple, the scene where Deet meets him in the woods, we can see his defiance melting into a surprise with his ears going back and eyes going wide, followed by embarrassment and sadness with him looking down. Actually, in some scenes you showed, he wasn’t smiling, for me. Well...as the person controlling his expressions wasn’t always the same, we can tell that some of them were more talented than the others ^^’
Another thing I want to add is the speech movements. When we speak, only our lower jaw moves, but some characters in the show have their upper jaw moving too, along with their skull, unfocusing their gaze and giving them an unnatural and muppety look. Not Rian (and Tavra too, because...same puppeteer !) on the scene with him, Maudra Fara and his father, it’s quite flagrant, and we got head movements emphasising strong sentences vs head emphasising each syllables (which feels less natural).
Here I am, spreading some Rian love, but as his puppeteer said in an interview, puppets are less refined than animation so it’s up to the audience to complete the performance. That’s the beauty of this art. Some can see things differently than another. You said that Rian has bedroom eyes, for me they were melancholic eyes.
I will be going more into Rian in my second video, I do become more fond of him as the show goes on. No promises on when that'll come out though (if you check out the rest of my channel, in terms of views this video did... poorly)
When Rian is following Deet in the last episode, his bangs are all messed up and stuck to parts of his forehead with sweat, and you can see his eyebrows and the worry on his face. In that moment I was like THERE IT IS! THERE'S THAT EMOTION! That scene ripped my goddamn heart out. I really think if they had just fixed the shape of the mouth and changed his fringe, I wouldn't have a problem with him.
Unfortunately that amazing show had it’s fame, but it wasn’t that big... But I look forward for your second video ! I’m curious to hear your opinion about the Skeksis.
Oh yes ! THAT scene ! T_T And that disturbing one where Rian is hanging upside down (so, no bangs) watching the Chamberlain drink Mira’s essence...that was heart wrenching. But yeah, I’m glad he grew on you too. It was hard at first to dive into a character with that face, but I got used to it and as I said above, there is other ways to read his emotions.
What is weird is that Deet has that smile problem but they corrected it with CGI. You mentioned the corners of her mouth moving a lot, so that’s it. Since she didn’t have as much animatronics to her face (her eyes were too big to blink) all of the work on her facial expressions was done by computer. If you look at the making of, you can see that her face is static, always smiling and no blinks.
They did that mouth frowning animation on Rian in some scenes (his father’s death T_T) but I don’t know why they didn’t use it as often as Deet.
My sources for all of that is mostly the Age of Resistance artbook. I recommend it !
I guess I was a strange child. I loved every minute of this movie with no fear and my parents even got me the comic of the movie.
Same. I'm 15 but I grew up on this, the Neverending Story, Mirrormask, Labyrinth... Such masterpieces are so lacking in our times.
Like Cats, The Dark Crystal is a another movie i watched at my grandparents as a very little kid, and I unfortunately forgot How it goes mostly but I just know I enjoyed most of it the “rant” you go on 2:45 I couldn’t agree with you more, I am considering watching the new series on Netflix.
Thanks so very much for bringing me back to this amazing and mysterious world ^w^
Lilac your an awesome guy and dont forget that
Peter Arnaldo how so? XD
I feel like we have the same perspectives
I've watched Age of Resistance three times now, please do part two!
Script is in progress
@@CaitlinKoi Hello, sorry to bother you, I just wanted to ask if part two was still in progress. If it's already been published, could you please send a link? I haven't been able to find it. Thank you!
I know I’ve said this already, but this video is amazing! The editing is amazing, the writing is fantastic and you’ve actually convinced me to watch this show! (Tho I Probably won’t since I’ll probably forget to do it and I don’t really have time for it) :/
Also, I’ve never liked a 10 min conversation about eyebrows this much.
Lol ze eye browz be xtra thicc
The dark crystal is such an amazing and creative artistic thing, I wish there was more stuff like it. Too bad entertainment is more concerned with profit than creativity and quality. Imagine how much good media there would be if money weren't a concern.
Sorry, I love Rian as a character and you can’t make me dislike him. Also I didn’t notice ANY of the puppetry problems you mentioned and even knowing them now...I still don’t care. 🤷♂️
Good review though XD
Here's something you didn't know.
Odds1Out got a chance to see a early screening of the show. Plus, he still wanting to play Aughra's son.
I want season 2 to bring the Captain (SkekSa the Female Skeksis) and Swimmer (UrSan the Female Mystic).
You want shifty? SkekLi the Satirist is the second manipulative talker next to Chamberlain and his counterpart is UrLii the Storyteller who revealed secret for exchanging gifts. UrLii did this ploy towards Ordon just for a giggle in the books.
Also, SkekLi is mentioned in the series and often refer as a jester by the Emperor and Chamberlain took credit of SkekLi's work on the Arathims in the books.
I'm just glad I'm not the only one.
Lol same
Saw the entire first season already and can only saw one word
😫 D E E T !!!!’😫😫
Same but with Naia
This video is what made me watch the show! I absolutely adored it. Can’t wait for the follow up video 💖
Awesome job Caitlin!
Shes already awesome and always will be
YEEEEY ITS HEREEEE!!!!
i watched cats because of you and now i'm going to watch the dark crystal :D
Koi is one unique when it comes to her favorite movies ^_^
@@peterarnaldo2418 I totally agree
I personally didn't have an uncanny valley feeling with any of these puppets. It took me a while to get used to the mouth movement limitations, but after so long, it kind of blurred away as I got invested in the characters and believing the acting/puppeteering. The CGI gelfling on the other hand, the one I saw on a kind of test was VERY uncanny valley, with eyes opened so wide you could see the whole pupil. A black circle folkes. AMATEUR mistake when drawing eyes as a STUDENT, never mind making CGI characters as a professional with multi-millions behind you!!
Mama koi
Dude dont copy Geo
haven't seen this movie in a loong time. It's such a good movie.
I really enjoyed watching this! It was fun listening to you talk about the show. I am also glad they stuck with puppets and not cgi. It makes it feel more special, and more like the original. Now that you have watched the show, you’ve gotta play the Nintendo Switch game! it looks fun.
The most traumatizing moment for me as a child was when they ripped the clothes out of the Chamberlain, it still feels so denigrating and violating, and it doesn't help my child mind was just as scared from the horrible body of the Chamberlain.
Seladon's comeuppance must have been extra rough to watch in the show
@@CaitlinKoi True, I remember seeing that scene and just freezing up again, it was so harsh to watch it made me pity her despite all she has done
Same, I kept on saying "oh man I can't WAIT for this to blow up in her face" and then that scene happened and I was like "hold up this isn't what I expected"
“Caitlin Koi the best TH-camr in the world”
This show is... almost perfect. It’s like the Avatar of puppetry
I kinda of agree with you about the I’m a girl line I feel like the only reason they put that in the prequel was just for nostalgia
I know no one will ever read this but I need to vent about a few seconds in this show. About Aughra specifically. So this is a short scene when after she tries to talk to the skesis they throw her out and have to gelfling guards escort her away from the castle. While they walk the guards talk about how Aughra is this terrifying monster who eats Gelfling. Aughra pauses and there's just this LOOK. This look of failure that she abandoned her children and they've turned on her, and then she has to compose herself and use their fear to get away from them. It's this like 15 second scene but it absolutely broke me for a minute.
You underestimate how often I look through my own comments. I loved that moment, especially for how she chose to frighten them to get away
When are you going to do part 2
When will the next portion be coming out for this?
It's months off
I JUST LOVE HEARING YOU RAGE 😂
Lol
Wow, I bet the Odd1sout can see this
James be like: NANI
Yaayyyy!
If you all are wondering, the skeksis and some of the other puppets are purposefully made to be scary according to Jim Henson. and to those adults who can't watch the dark crystal/daor, I watched the dark crystal when I was 5 and I didn't get scared at all! even my little sibling can watch it, my 7 year old brother watched it all and he even hums the dark crystal theme song and calls me Brea and my older sis Deet(which is sweet and weird at the same time). l Like your video by the way.:-)
Of course they were MADE to be scary XD It's pretty obvious
now this is a cool
BLOCKBUSTER!! yeah I'm so becoming a huge fan of your videos.
I'm glad you're liking them, in spite of your distaste for my having a Patreon
YeAh I kNoW iM a FoSsIlE
Me 2 (insert sad face emoji)
Where’s part 2?
1. These videos take a long time to make and I'm still writing the script.
2. If you look at my channel, you'll see this criminally underperformed against my other work to the point of being embarrassing. If I'm gonna survive on here I need to cater to my audience and only make this kind of stuff when the inspiration really hits me.
*the dark fu- crystal*
The Dark FuMMMMMMMMMM Crystal
A very specific crystal in the likes, which we shall classify as fuMMMMMMMMMMM dark.
I love yooooo
I love your review, and greatly enjoyed this: constructive criticism (of your setup, not your content!) please get a better mic! Thank you!
I completely agree, I'm very unhappy with how the audio ended up in a lot of places. I've got a Yeti. Microphones are expensive so I'm hopeful to just test out better recording settings, figure out the right gain for my set up, and learn more audio tricks in Premiere.
@@CaitlinKoi Awesome, looking forward to Part 2 over here :D
I find a few characters pretty creepy tbh
Yup and I did my best to explain why some characters look that way
Wait. Who cares about the mouth movement? I literally had no problems with this show, except that it was cancelled.
You do know that Mira
Get kill off in the first episode right
Making this video involved watching the entire season at least 10 times. So I think I know
"the best character in the enitre show" indeed. I agree with all of that. The rant about the expressions was a bit long-winded though.
I understand no one will ever be as interested in the minute details of facial expressions as I am (other than the people who designed these characters) I think I'm only interested in it because I'm autistic and had to practically study to learn how to read faces like everyone else. I'm sorry you found it long-winded, I don't disagree.
But this is my only outlet for my highly specific and mundane interests ;v;
I don't like Rian's face cause his eyes are huge and white
First
Congrats ^_^ nice Spinel cursed image bro😂
One question what movie is this some weird creature movie if it is then I don’t like it.
Dark Crystal is a fantasy film made entirely with puppets. Google is your friend.
Caitlin Koi Na I don’t like it
@@ironbender9295 Good for you
Caitlin Koi ya and I love you Animation videos