From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!wdl1!jrb Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Dark Crystal Article-I.D.: wdl1.129 Posted: Thu Jan 6 09:36:13 1983 Received: Fri Jan 7 03:20:11 1983 I understand that because the film was too long, half an hour of explanatory material was cut from the beginning of the film. Unfortunately, this had the effect of destroying any point there may have been. There apparantly was a lot more about why the Skeksis and the Uru (Mystics) were the way they were. If anyone is interested, there is an excellent book "The World of the Dark Crystal" which gives a lot of background information as well as many of Brian Froud's paintings and sketches. John R Blaker (...!fortune!wdl1!jrb)