If only Covid-19 hadn’t forced production to scrap that planned standalone James McAvoy episode, season two might have enjoyed perfect storytelling balance. It also created a neat symmetry between Lee and Jopari’s heroic deaths both men died sacrificing their life for a child they love. Setting their reunion in daylight and therefore letting Jopari recognise Will as his son almost immediately rather than seconds before death, made his exit slightly less cruel than it is in the book. The death of Will’s father, for example, was more powerful for coming via an anonymous Magisterium bullet instead of (as in The Subtle Knife) the over-complication of a vengeful, spurned witch. Whenever the series has concertinaed the timeline or invented scenes not taken from the books, it’s made for a more satisfying story. Just as this agile adaptation has a tendency to avoid them, from the fast work season two did to absorb the loss of an episode caused by the pandemic, to its confident weaving in and out of the source material. First, of course, she needs to get out of that trunk and her mother’s clutches, but as Mrs Coulter noted earlier in this run, Lyra has a tendency to escape traps… Now it looks like she’s going to get the chance. Lyra has spent season two tormented by guilt over Roger’s death and wishing she could have done more to help him. This His Dark Materials review contains spoilers and references to the plot of The Subtle Knife.ĭid you stay until the end? All the way to the end, after the production names and notices about the support of the Welsh government and tax credits from the Hawaii Film Office? Then you saw him – a hint as to where this fantastic (in all senses of the word) tale is heading.
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