The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

We Rowes have been watching the new series "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" as a family, and today we finished the first season.  Three of us watched the series only when the whole family could sit down together; Madeleine was too impatient to wait for us, so by the time we got to the finale this afternoon, she had seen the entirety of the season probably 5 or 6 times.  She has been absolutely OBSESSED with the show and the fantasy world of Thra.  As someone who was totally obsessed with the original movie as a child, I can kind of relate, except that I didn't grow up with the technology to binge-watch a show/movie repeatedly, the way she can.

Madeleine has decided that she wants to be her favorite "Age of Resistance" character, the Gelfling Deet, for Halloween.  Because there are no actual costumes of Deet for sale, I have been ordering a hodge-podge of things to try and put a costume together.  Most recent to arrive was the Gelfling ears.  Now Madeleine can turn herself into a Gelfling when she's doing any old activity around the house!:

Bedtime reading.  (I guess she was so excited about her Gelfling ears that she put her pajama top on backwards, because there are supposed to be graphics on the front of it)

Doing arts and crafts.  Why not be a Gelfling while you're making a cardboard dollhouse??

Eating tortilla chips and watching tv.  Because, let's face it: you HAVE to dress as a Gelfling to fully enjoy "The Dark Crystal" viewing experience, amirite?


With all the effort put towards Madeleine's costume, I should be able to count on Julia to pick something totally generic and easy for her Halloween costume, right?  So, she wants to be a plague doctor.  But with a red robe and a white face mask, not the standard black that one can find in catalogs and online. 

Halloween 2019: Deet the Gelfling and Plague Doctor Julia, because my kids have totally normal and mainstream interests like the cult classic "The Dark Crystal" and the bubonic plague.