His Dark Materials
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Can I confess something that no male critic would ever admit?
Sometimes in writing these recaps, I get nervous about getting it wrong.
Not that my opinion is wrong necessarily, although sometimes it does feel like that.
This weeks installment ofHis Dark Materialsdid this in two critical respects, and I suspect I know why.
When she speaks, she might say things like, So you stole [the alethiometer] from her?
but what she really means is I am trying to decide just how slowly you deserve to be killed.
A mother with a stroller, working on her laptop in the park, is a revelation.
(Even in our America!)
And of course, theres Doctor Mary Motherfucking Malone.
Shehaswritten plenty of papers they could ostensibly discuss!
By the time she returns to Boreals, she has no more patience for his casual ignorance.
He dismisses women in this world as arrogant, even as she vocally aspires to the freedom they have.
She brings up the scandal a traumatic event thathappened to her and he whines about talking about Asriel.
This place is full of ideas, ideas our world is hungry for, and yet you?
You have spent your time trading trinkets.
When he protests, citing thecompanyhe has built, thenamehe has made for himself, she sneers at him.
And were you hoping to add me to your little collection of treasures?
… My dear Carlo.
If you actually got me, you wouldnt begin to know what to do with me.
Its at this moment that the embodiment of what she has become instead comes knocking: her daughter.
Only now, she knows exactly where she stands in the universe.
We havent met Xaphania yet, but trust me, shes worth the wait.
Golden monkey in a seatbelt.
GOLDEN MONKEY IN A SEATBELT.
Little does her sister know the Cave didnt give her much choice in the matter.
You must make a journey which starts at Hornbeam.
Find the entrance.You will be protected.Save the girl.
Your work here is finished.
We will not speak again in this world.
Props to Mary for simply trusting them and stepping through the doorway to Cittagazze.
Its weird that Coulter knows how to drive a Tesla, right?
Mrs. Coulters golden monkey is the only daemon who actually benefits from the shows CG approach.
Kids watching this show need to hear this stuff!
Am I the only one who cant stop noticing how … um … scrotal?
… the Cittagazze peninsula looks?
