Coulter’s puppet, sets in motion retribution by the Magisterium, who travel to Svalbard for a major showdown with the bears.

Other name updates: Lyra, after helping Iorek Byrnison reclaim his throne (in a scene I wished had retained the ritual of the book, with the bears wearing their armor while they dueled if their armors are their souls, why would they lose them for this fight?), is renamed Lyra Silvertongue by the king. We learn that Lord Asriel’s last name, at least in the show universe, is in fact Belacqua! You think this isn’t a big deal, but it is, because I do not think that at any point in any of Philip Pullman’s books, he is ever referred to as anything but “Asriel” or “Lord Asriel”! THIS IS SIGNIFICANT! HOW DID SEASON ONE OF HIS DARK MATERIALS END?īecause of my ongoing battle with the Cold That Will Not End, I skipped recapping the final two episodes of the season, “The Fight to the Death” and “Betrayal.” My bad! But the major narrative developments in those two episodes were the following: SOME SPOILERS BELOW FOR THIS FIRST SEASON, AND FOR POTENTIAL PLOT POINTS IN UPCOMING SEASONS, AND FOR PHILIP PULLMAN’S BOOKS IN GENERAL! So much to do! Such little time! Let’s get going, like Lord Asriel purposefully striding forward into another world with nary a glance behind him to his lover or his daughter. Which means that we can do a couple of things here! We can talk about how the first season wrapped, what worked and what didn’t, and what to anticipate in season two. 🤠🐇 /sHfb16TrhT- Lin-Manuel Miranda September 27, 2019 You’ll see season 1 in November! #HisDarkMaterials That’s a season 2 wrap on Lee Scoresby & Hester! The funny thing about major prestige television shows like His Dark Materials is that seasons often get ordered in bulk, so season two of the show actually finished filming before season one even aired on HBO in the U.S.

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