Talkie Tuesday: His Dark Materials

 

"Once you understand something, you can master it."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Happy New Year!

 

Hopefully this will be a much better one than the one we've just gone through, and in the vein of that hope I am kick-starting all the blog posts on here with something really great.

 

There's a bunch of things to watch if you need something to distract yourself during lockdowns and quarantine, mind, but I suppose there are a few stand-outs even so, despite the fact that it's numerous all around.

 

But when BBC teams up with HBO, you really need to pay attention.

 

Philip Pullman's trilogy already sparked controversy back in the day when it was first published and it's getting right back on track with that now with the television adaptation, but I mean, did we expect anything else at all? In this day and age?

 

Nope.

 

So sit back and relax as we take a look at the second season of His Dark Materials.

 

His Dark Materials (Booktober)

 

"So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, 

and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky."

 

Considering the fact HBO launched a hugely successful season one of the series last fall season, to say Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials are an unknown would be a monstrous lie. The story that's basically a recreation of Adam and Eve's fall from the Garden of Eden is as old as time, but with the addition of mirror worlds overlapping with ours and daemons who help their humans out, this is a different perspective indeed. Lyra might be the new Eve, but she is also just Lyra - someone you REALLY want to meet as she goes on her adventure to discover who she really is, who her parents aren't, and what it means to fall in love, save the world, and be back home in time for a street fight!

 

Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power. And with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat – and the shattering truth of their own destiny. The two great powers of the many worlds are lining up for war, an inevitable journey that will even take them to the world of the dead ...

(from Goodreads)

 

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*image not mine

 

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Talkie Tuesday.: His Dark Materials

"The fate of more than this world depends on her."

Hello everyone!

Welcome back to another recap Tuesday as opposed to a general review. I have a few on the backburner still waiting to get their chance to shine, and honestly I should have done this one a couple of months ago after the show first premiered, but life and other creative decisions on the blog interrupted.

If you've ever heard of Philip Pullman, you've probably heard of the movie The Golden Compass, too.

And if you've heard of THAT, then you know there's a show to follow afterwards as well.

BBC and HBO partnered up to bring us another adaptation of Pullman's book trilogy, which tells the story of an alternate world, or well WORLDS, and how there's going to be a second coming of the Original Sin, which a lot of people are trying to prevent.

Of course, one should note that the author himself is anti-political and anti-religion, so you can definitely see influences of that throughout his work.

His Dark Materials, however, remain absolutely amazing.