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“The Lost Boy” was the episode of His Dark Materials I was most looking forward to because I knew it would cover one of my favourite moments in the novels. Following on from their rampage at Trollesund the Gyptians travel northwards to Bolvangar. When Lyra reads the alethiometer she finds out that the Gyptians will be outmanned and outgunned. […]
After three episodes of build-up, His Dark Materials finally moves the story onto the North and introduces two popular characters from the novels. The Gyptians have arrived in the port town of Trollesund and immediately set out to find allies to aid them on their quest. Farder Corman (James Cosmo) and Lyra (Dafne Keen) go to The Witch’s Counsel […]
The third episode of His Dark Materials expands upon the source material with Mrs. Coulter and the Magisterium desperate to find Lyra. At the end of “The Idea of North” Lyra (Dafne Keen) has been taken hostage by The Gobblers. Fortunately, she’s rescued immediately by the Gyptians and they take her with them to their meeting at The Fens. […]
Remember how excited I was about learning characters in His Dark Materials can travel between world’s last week? Well, that’s just how disappointed I was with this week’s tired twist – that Coulter and Asriel had an affair, complete with an angry husband trying to kill Lyra and both of them. What a dumb, predictable, and, […]
So, I will admit that I wasn’t all that invested in “The Idea of the North,” the second episode of His Dark Materials. At least until that bonkers crazy twist where there is a multiverse?!? What?!? And with that, all my mundane questions about the rules of the fantasy world of the series (some of […]
“The Idea of North” builds on the plotline established in the “Lyra’s Jordan” and already starts to embellish on things that weren’t in the novel. Lyra (Dafne Keen) has moved in with Mrs. Coulter (Ruth Wilson). However, their relationship soon becomes strained and Mrs. Coulter’s true personality starts to reveal itself. The Gyptians continue to […]
I’ve never read the His Dark Materials series of novels. I know nothing about the story, the characters, the setting. All I know is what the new HBO adaptation tells me (which, if it’s a good show, should be enough to help understand why the novels have been so popular, and, in theory, to entice […]
The BBC/HBO adaptation of His Dark Materials has finally arrived. It is a long-awaited TV adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s acclaimed series of novels and the biggest British TV series ever made. In an alternative world the Magisterium has ruled and oppressed for centuries. In this world people have a dæmon, the physical embodiment of their soul. Lyra […]
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is one of my favourite series of novels, a complex trilogy of fantasy novels that appeal to people of all ages. It was a series that won the Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Book of the Year awards and was voted as one of the best novels by the British public back in 2003. In 2015 […]