His Dark Media

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Note that the entire season drops on BBC iPlayer at 7pm GMT today, December 18.

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Finish the series before watching.

 

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Literary critic writes about the ending of the series.  She has done a podcast on the earlier seasons.

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Nevertheless, one of the loveliest scenes in the series to hark on this theme comes when Mary “tempts” Lyra by telling the story of how she left her religious order. In a flashback, Mary sits at a long table under a Mediterranean sun with a convivial group of scientists. She notices her own desire for one of her companions (in the novel it’s a man; in the series a woman, which somehow seems much more appropriate to Mary). The woman offers Mary a sweet, and in that moment a long-buried memory of the feeling of being in love floods back to her. She knows that she cannot live out the rest of her life refusing to ever feel this again, and asks herself why things would be better off if she fled, confessed, and swore never to be tempted again. “Will anyone be the better,” she asks, “for making me miserable?” The scene ends with a shot of Mary’s discarded crucifix necklace sliding between the cushions of her chair.

It’s moments like these—including the awkward, tender, magical transition in Will and Lyra’s relationship, inspired by Mary’s story—that ground the cosmic conflict of Pullman’s trilogy in the precious ephemera of everyday life.

Read in Slate: https://apple.news/AvMhQ2IxqRCeRB9vT3do6og

 

[Affogato]

https://www.tor.com/2023/01/03/love-takes-a-million-forms-his-dark-materials-series-finale/?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter&utm_content=na-readblog-blogpost&utm_campaign=tordotcom&e=7b4ef45ea5e39a2ffb25549c88e41435720b6b497ae3ab1fb447b557b3e75375
 

review on Tor.com. Thoughtful. Lots of cross comparisons with the books. 

Edited January 8, 2023 by Affogato