How It Ends: Dark Crystal
One thousand years “before” the movie Dark Crystal, a seemingly perfect race caused the Crystal to shatter and were themselves split into the Skeksis and the Mystics. What happened, and why?
I think perfection is a myth, a dead end. You can stop changing, but the environment won’t. Perfection isn’t the way of Life. But perhaps the ur-race were not so perfect—they realised they had lost something vital and had a plan to get it back.
They deliberately split the crystal and themselves. Lived a thousand years each as two people: one given to debauchery, the other to introspection. Hoping, in the end, to form a synthesis, something that could absorb the contradiction, something alive…
(See also: Grant Morrison, fiction suits; Babylon 5, “sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective”.)
All of which rescues the movie from ideas of Destiny and the Fall…