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Watching episode 7 with the Northerner. In a programme that has included, well, all this, his moment of irritated incredulity is that she survived falling out of a balloon :D:D:D
 
Finally watched the last episode. Could've worked perfectly well without all the sturm und drang with the airships and bears and so forth, some of which highlighted the budget limitations of a show that has mostly looked fantastic up to that point. They did get the end point right though, with both the parallel stories. The way they did it justifies bringing Will into the story sooner than the books do, as they can now start season two with something other than a lot of confusing exposition and a new character we don't yet care about.
 
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kalidarkone said:
I'm reading the subtle knife again -it's so good .
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How did you get on? I tried to read northern lights again a while ago and couldn't get into it, but I've read it so many times before.

Anyone read the next book yet? Might have to get on that next actually I've been struggling for books recently.
 
I'm binging it now, a few eps in. The little girl who plays Lyra isn't quite as good as I was expecting, but I had high expectations after seeing her in Logan. She's still good in a difficult role (and I haven't seen it all yet).

Mrs Coulter is very different to the book character in some ways - I thought Nicole Kidman was great as her, ice cold but charismatic - but she's excellent in a different way.

Introducing Will early makes sense - the second book was really jarring for a while. But why does he live in a really expensive fucking mansion? I remember him being poor in the books, and it being a plot point that he had no money when he went on the run, and that his Dad had left them with no money so they didn't even have financial security as well as the other problems he left behind. He's also a little too old considering how daemons settle and that he
eventually gets together with Lyra. They're going to have to age Lyra in some way so it's not creepy.

The CGI is great. I think I prefer really good CGI in a few scenes to trying to budget for the number of familiars you'd expect. And using real animals (like dogs) for some of the characters might make the CGI characters stand out more as not real. Plus one of the things I disliked in the books was that all servants have dogs as daemons, like you get to age 13 and know you're going to be a servant forever. Glad they've left that out.
 
May Kasahara said:
Yes, I did, and exclaimed "oh look, it's Lyanna Mormont!", at which point my 9yo said "no mum, that's the Worst Witch" :)

Lovely to have 'our' show back on again. I enjoyed it a lot.
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Ah I didn't pick it up at the time. Thought those scene's we're good though.

Good first episode.
 
I really liked the first episode of the new season - Will and Lyra work well together, and that's important. The set is beautiful - does anyone know where it is?

They're having the daemons appear on screen a hell of a lot more, thankfully. The show can't work without them being seen and known as themselves, even though that's not exactly what they are.
 
scifisam said:
I really liked the first episode of the new season - Will and Lyra work well together, and that's important. The set is beautiful - does anyone know where it is?

They're having the daemons appear on screen a hell of a lot more, thankfully. The show can't work without them being seen and known as themselves, even though that's not exactly what they are.
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scifisam said:
I really liked the first episode of the new season - Will and Lyra work well together, and that's important. The set is beautiful - does anyone know where it is?
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Mostly Cardiff, but some of it is in Brecon Beacons
 
scifisam said:
I guess the town scenes were a set then? It looked sort of like it was based on Pompeii.
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Some street scenes are in Chicago, and bits of it are in Oxford and London but I think most of it is sound stages in Cardiff and CGI
(Also the boat yard scenes are in Sharpness in Gloucestershire and Trollesund is partly filmed in Crickhowell and Blaenavon)
 
It's nearly all sets but the place where Will crossed over to Cittagazze is definitely Plasturton Gardens in Cardiff.

I shouted "Worst Witch" and I watched GOT, it's just the former has more cultural cache in this household. :D
 
ooh, will have to start watching. gsv lost interest in the last one, but I watched to the end. Currently reading 'The Secret Commonwealth' as it happens.
 
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