His Dark Materials
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(Turns out, the sith arent the only ones who deal in absolutes.)
Is a republic of ideas really worth abandoning your child?
What good is choosing your child, if you abandon all sense of right and wrong in the process?
How righteous a crusader can one truly be if one is also a horrible dad?
How good a mother can one be if one does monstrous things to remain so?
Will, Im so sorry.
But look what youve become without me!
says Parry, intoning those timeless, self-absolving cliches of the deadbeat dad.
They are practically strolling along when that soldier spots them and pursues.)
The only difference between him and Mrs. Coulter, as far as we can tell, is opportunity.
Mrs. Coulter has had a distinct downgrade this week, as well.
(RIP, Lena Feldt.)
Hes a manifestation of her subconscious, so is it self-preservation, or a crisis of conscience?
Speaking of messes, R.I.P.
But all of those reasons added up to a heroic, bittersweet death scene that felt anything but.
Not even Hester got the satisfaction of curling up on her humans chest to comfort him as they go.
(Thereissome human-dmon physical contact in this episode, but its wasted on Pan sleeping on Lyras forearm.)
I, for one, am so sorry for our loss.
(Dont worry, though,HDMrookies and LMM stanshell be back next season.)
EvenLyralets us down this week, to an extent.
What Ive learned is that we make mistakes, she says very seriously to Pantalaimon.
Any subtlety we might have enjoyed has been a bug, not a feature.
Do they really believe these mens ends justify their means?
And if they really believe that, can they faithfully articulate just what that will cost everyone else?
If youre wondering WTF was going on with those Mordor-looking bat people, those are cliffghasts.
They look and sound evil and kind of random when Ruta Skadi comes upon them in this episode.
(Theyre better parents than Lyras or Wills, at any rate!)
