His Dark Materials
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Is it better to be a villain or a martyr?
To Eve, and what it means to retell her story.
One can neither read the books nor, now, watch this series without understanding the commentary herein.
Nature will be restored.
Hope will spark in darkness as innocence turns to experience, and all will be in harmony once more.
Dust, consciousness, experience, sensation, passion, love these are not sins.
They are essential to our survival.
Eve the villain created by men did not doom the human race.
But at what cost?
Lyra and Will, our Eve and Adam, defeat death before they ever set foot in Eden.
And then they do.
Their brief courtship is blindingly middle school, and isnt that just the best?)
Will meets Kirjava, and Pantalaimon finally FINALLY gets a proper snuggle in Lyras arms.
(I burst into tears.
Did you burst into tears?)
These were their shapes for life; they would want no other.
For a brief moment, the four of them know Paradise.
That should be enough.
Serafina Pekkala pronounces the prophecy fulfilled, but the prophecy is bullshit.
But the prophecy conveniently left out what comes next.
That someone must pay for the humans men who flew too close to the sun when they created sahttr.
Its been bleeding out ever since, explains Xaphania.
The wounds create plagues, Specters, and all manner of darkness.
And that means Eve must not just love, she must sacrifice everything.
Her mother and father, hideous though they were, are dead.
Her best friend is dead.
Shes irreparably damaged her relationship with her dmon.
Iorek Byrnison and the panserbjrnelove her, but for obvious reasons, Svalbard would never truly be home.
Lyra loses her ability to read her beloved alethiometer.
(Yes, even without the Magisterium.
The epilogue leaves the question of whether well return to the sequel series up in the air.
The outlook isnt great, to be honest (especiallyamid all the tumult at HBO).
If it doesnt happen, that might be for the best.
Let her be furious.
Let her and Pantalaimon and us have that much.
(Does murdering Gomez cause him to die?
Does he simply choose to disintegrate and find Baruch once his task is complete?)
In the book, Balthamos drowns Gomez, which allows the priests dmon to bite and poison him.
Its a true tragedy that Lyra never got to be the feral little beast she was meant to be.
People cry when their abusive parents die!
You were a nun?Like a nun nun?
Actual LOL at Mary offering themliteralfruitthe morning after the marzipan story.
Hey kid, want to cry a little more on your way out?
In the book, the mulefa know about the window from the land of the dead.
