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His Dark Materials

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His Dark Materials	comment	His Dark Materials is a 2019 fantasy TV series that runs on BBC One in the UK, and on HBO in the rest of the world. It is based on the trilogy of books by Philip Pullman: Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.The protagonist is a young girl, Lyra Silvertongue (played by Dafne Keen) in a fantasy world very similar to our own, in which people's souls live outside their bodies in the form of dÃ¦mons, which take on animal forms according to the person's personality.Notably, this show is a co-production between the BBC and HBO. The show aired on Sundays in the UK on BBC One, and the following night everywhere else in the world on HBO.The series is unrelated to the 2007 film adaptation The Golden Compass (outside of using the same source material), which only adapted the first book and didn't have any sequels.It was renewed by the BBC for another season of seven episodes (Unfortunately losing one standalone episode to the COVID-19 Pandemic, as one day into filming, the UK's restrictions came into effect), and Series 2 started airing on November 8th, 2020.The third and final series premiered on December 5th, 2022 in the US and December 18th in the UK, with all of Series 3's episodes made available for streaming on BBC iPlayer immediately after the first episode aired on BBC One.
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His Dark Materials / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
His Dark Materials / int_113480b7	comment	Rather than the king of an unspecified African country in Lyra's world, Ogunwe is a Commander from a new world created for the series where his army is fighting its own version of the Magisterium called the Temple. Consequently, his cheetah dÃ¦mon is Adapted Out.
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His Dark Materials / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
His Dark Materials / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Lee Scoresby is decades younger than his book and movie counterparts. Will Parry is explicitly stated to be fifteen years old, while in the books he was the same age as Lyra, 12 going on 13.
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His Dark Materials / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
His Dark Materials / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Since the adaptation follows the adults more closely, the themes tend to get darker, faster, than if the children were followed. Also, considering its fantasy themes, it is noticeably quicker to start its intrigue than many of its counterparts.
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His Dark Materials / int_174d487f	type	Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
His Dark Materials / int_174d487f	comment	Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Those who have had their dÃ¦mons removed display this and show no reflections in their eyes.
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His Dark Materials / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
His Dark Materials / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The show sometimes plays with genre based on who's point of view we are watching. Lee's viewpoint in "Armour" becomes The Western, and Lord Boreal and Will Parry's viewpoints become a mystery/thriller. Lyra's story switches from a quirky children's adventure to what is basically a sci-fi thriller/horror story for the latter half of season 1.
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His Dark Materials / int_17a969de	type	No OSHA Compliance
His Dark Materials / int_17a969de	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Mrs. Coulter's Penthouse can only be entered by a key-activated elevator, having no emergency staircase or fire escape. She effectively imprisons Lyra there. Inverted with Bolvangar. The staff have enough safety standards to have frequent fire drills. This bites them in the ass when Lyra weaponizes it against them.
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His Dark Materials / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
His Dark Materials / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: For the most part the series explains most of the plot points from the book, but the death of the Authority is not even commented on, which may confuse casual viewers (not to mention being somewhat incongruous considering how major an act it is.)
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His Dark Materials / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
His Dark Materials / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: "Billy Costa" is said multiple times throughout the first season, to the point one could almost make a drinking game out of it.
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His Dark Materials / int_1b0f9101	type	Diesel Punk
His Dark Materials / int_1b0f9101	comment	Dieselpunk: While most readers of the books think of Lyraâ€™s world as Steampunk/Gaslamp Fantasy in style, the adaptation opts for a distinctly 1930s-like setting, from the Art Deco decor used in many scenes, to the Hollywood socialite aesthetic of Mrs. Coulter, and the concentration camp-like Bolvangar guarded by soldiers equipped with World War II-era MP-40s. This is logical in a way, as passenger airships (which feature heavily) were much more of a 1930s than a Victorian trope.
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His Dark Materials / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
His Dark Materials / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: After John Parry is fatally shot by a Magisterium soldier, he survives long enough for his dÃ¦mon to kill the soldier's dÃ¦mon (and thus the soldier himself) while he says goodbye to Will.
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His Dark Materials / int_1e020735	type	Heroic Suicide
His Dark Materials / int_1e020735	comment	Heroic Suicide: Benjamin De Ruyter, wounded and cornered by Mrs. Coulter, chooses to throw himself down a lift shaft to his death rather than be tortured into betraying the Gyptians.
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His Dark Materials / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
His Dark Materials / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: As in the novel, Will loses the little and ring fingers of one hand when fighting for the Subtle Knife (although in this version the lost fingers are on his right hand as Will's actor is left-handed).
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His Dark Materials / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
His Dark Materials / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: Let's see, we have intelligent armored Svalbard polar bears that have opposable thumbs and make their own armour, and DÃ¦mons, which act as an extension of someone's soul.
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His Dark Materials / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
His Dark Materials / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Dr. Cooper and Rendal both enjoy a drink after a day's work, and toast to "Freedom". The irony of this toast seems to go completely over the heads of people who run the equivalent of a children's concentration camp.
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His Dark Materials / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
His Dark Materials / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: It's here, and boy does it show up from time to time. The show airs fairly late in the evening, so the books' violence and themes remain intact. This is something that the film adaptation notoriously struggled with, as none of the film studio's involved wanted to tackle the violence or themes the book was trying to convey. It also helps that both The BBC and HBO have very relaxed guidelines for the mature content the show happens to delve into.note The British watershed only really concerns nudity, swearing and excess violence, while HBO doesn't have any real restrictions to speak of. Inverted in the Iorek-Iofur fight, which goes for a Battle Discretion Shot instead of swiping Iofur's jaw off and snapping his neck centre frame, as the movie adaptation did.
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His Dark Materials / int_2003678f	type	Adaptational Skimpiness
His Dark Materials / int_2003678f	comment	Adaptational Skimpiness: Insofar as the term can apply to a bear. In the books, Iorek and Iofur are fully-armoured in their Duel to the Death; in the series, they fight in just their fur.
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His Dark Materials / int_228cb20	type	Adaptational Mundanity
His Dark Materials / int_228cb20	comment	Adaptational Mundanity: The Mulefa in the books are described as having diamond-shaped skeletons with one front leg, two middle legs, and one hind leg. While retaining the elephantine trunks and the use of seed pods as wheels, the Mulefa in this adaptation have an anatomy more closely resembling a typical Earth vertebrate.
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His Dark Materials / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
His Dark Materials / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: In "The Scholar", Mrs. Coulter and Boreal getting coffee before going to the latters' house, and at the end of the episode, Will and Lyra do the same thing when getting back to the crossroads.
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His Dark Materials / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
His Dark Materials / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The tiki statue Boreal shows off to Coulter that is worth what he claims is "more than Jordan College" gets beheaded by Will in an attempt to get Boreal to get away from him
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His Dark Materials / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
His Dark Materials / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Northern Lights / The Golden Compass, save for a few instances, takes place from Lyra's point of view. The series adds plenty of scenes to bulk up the narrative, such as the Gyptians reacting to their children being stolen and heading to London to find them, Lord Boreal working for the Magisterium and visiting "our" world, and more scenes of Mrs. Coulter alone and dealing with the Magisterium. Barely any of The Subtle Knife takes place in Lyra's world, but the second season lets viewers see the repercussions of Asriel's experiment and the escalating war between the witch clans and the Magisterium.
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His Dark Materials / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
His Dark Materials / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: The default situation when witches fall in love with humans, as witches live for hundreds of years. Serafina Pekkala looks to be in her early 30s, but is over 300 years old. Her former lover, Farder Coram, reunites with her after decades of estrangement, and is upset that he now is in his mid 60s while she hasn't aged a day.
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His Dark Materials / int_23568a2a	type	Adaptational Job Change
His Dark Materials / int_23568a2a	comment	Adaptational Job Change: King Ogunwe seems not to be a king in this version, as he is called Commander Ogunwe instead.
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His Dark Materials / int_24067bb9	comment	Related in the Adaptation: The series implies that Billy's father is actually John Faa.
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His Dark Materials / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
His Dark Materials / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Lee gets one offscreen from the prison guards, which leaves him bruised and bloodied, in between Mrs. Coulter's visits in 2x03 (he's far more battered and noticeably in more pain the second time she visits, and he flinches away from her despite his bravado earlier). He also has visible difficulty walking afterward, perhaps an intentional callback to his Dark and Troubled Past—as a child, he was beaten so badly that he couldn't even walk away from his abuser, but this time he can, albeit painfully.
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His Dark Materials / int_264a12ef	type	Mentor's New Hope
His Dark Materials / int_264a12ef	comment	Mentor's New Hope: Giacomo Paradisi observes that Will is a better bearer of the Knife than he was, complimenting Will's intelligence and courage.
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His Dark Materials / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
His Dark Materials / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Part of Farder Coram's backstory is losing his and Serafina Pekkala's young son to a disease. This led their estrangement for over 30 years. Billy had undergone intercision, and escaped to a nearby fishing town to die. He dies not long afterwards back at the camp. Roger also suffers the same fate, with Lord Asriel even admitting to invoking The Needs of the Many to Roger as to why he's using him and his dÃ¦mon to open up the portal.
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His Dark Materials / int_27dae4f0	type	Rogue Agent
His Dark Materials / int_27dae4f0	comment	Rogue Agent: Lord Boreal is an agent of the Magisterium, but it becomes clear early on that his investigations are well outside his jurisdiction. Mrs. Coulter later transitions into one when it becomes clear she's hit the glass ceiling of what the Magisterium will tolerate. Ironically they both maintain the facade of being loyal agents, and work closely together, but are seemingly unaware of the other's activities.
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His Dark Materials / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
His Dark Materials / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Lord Boreal crushes Adele Starminster's dÃ¦mon in his hand after interrogating her, which seems to kill her instantly. However, when he opens his hand the dÃ¦mon is still there, meaning she was still alive for at least a few seconds after he crushed it. The camera cuts away before it disappears, leaving it ambiguous if this actually killed her.
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His Dark Materials / int_2bb06191	type	Adaptational Sexuality
His Dark Materials / int_2bb06191	comment	Adaptational Sexuality: Mary Malone's inner awakening and abandoning of her faith in this series occurred because of a woman, not a man like the books.
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His Dark Materials / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
His Dark Materials / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: People with dÃ¦mons removed from them seem to have an affliction where they will stare into a deep space if their dÃ¦mon's name is mentioned. Lyra finds this out, and abuses this to escape one of the converted nurses at Bolvangar DÃ¦mons that have been separated from their person seemingly go brain-dead, and won't even talk. Anyone who's fed on by a Spectre doesn't physically die, but there's absolutely nothing left of their consciousness or personality. In CittÃ gazze Lyra and Will come across a man who was clearly attacked while fetching water, and is still standing staring at the wall in front of him after what must have been at least a full day and night. Series 3 establishes that Dust and Spectres are manifestations of something that is happening in every world of the multiverse. Commander Ogunwe initially rebukes Asriel's recruitment drive, and shows him his elder daughter. She'd been taken by the Temple, his world's version of the Magisterium, and exhibits the exact same emptiness as the victims at Bolvangar and CittÃ gazze.
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His Dark Materials / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
His Dark Materials / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: Children are being abducted right from under families' noses — Billy Costa is snatched at a Gyptian celebration, and Roger is taken from within the halls of Jordan College itself — and the government is not only refusing to do anything about it, part of it actually sanctions what's happening. Worse still, the children are being held captive, abused, experimented on and essentially lobotomized; when Billy is found he's completely catatonic and unresponsive, and dies only a little while after he's brought back to his grieving mother and brother.
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His Dark Materials / int_2ef005ab	type	Vocal Evolution
His Dark Materials / int_2ef005ab	comment	Vocal Evolution: Starting with the second season, Pan's voice is noticably deeper than it was in the first season, likely due to his voice actor aging.
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His Dark Materials / int_3270a3d7	type	Low Culture, High Tech
His Dark Materials / int_3270a3d7	comment	Low Culture, High Tech: Lord Boreal regularly visits "our" world, and so far he's been shown to own a car (that has a tire clamp on it he's visibly confused by) and implied to have banknotes and other currency to purchase goods (he otherwise wouldn't own a smartphone), with the show implying he keeps the two technologies separate between worlds (he never takes his phone or currency to his home world) in case he gets frisked or whatnot.
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His Dark Materials / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
His Dark Materials / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: The opening credits subtly shift to foreshadow things in each season. Season 1 shows things like a misty valley and Lee Scoresby's balloon, focusing on Lyra's world, while Season 2 has two appearances of the Subtle Knife, Mary Malone's 'shadows' machine, and finishes with the Tower of Angels and CittÃ gazze. Season 3 changes it most significantly, showing the Intention Craft, Angels fighting over the new Republic of Heaven, the cell containing the Authority, the Land of the Dead, and the trees of the mulefa's world.
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His Dark Materials / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Although the repercussions of his actions at the end of the first season affect all the other characters, Asriel doesn't appear in the second season. That is, until the very end of the season finale, where there's a scene of him and Stelmaria petitioning the rebel angels to join their cause. note The show runners did originally plan for a standalone episode in the middle of the second season, centred on Asriel and what happened when he and Stelmaria crossed into the world of CittÃ gazze, but filming it was postponed indefinitely due to the March 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in the UK; eventually the season was broadcast without it ever having been filmed, save for the reworking of the season finale.
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His Dark Materials / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Mrs. Lonsdale, Lyra's primary caretaker at Jordan. Dame Hannah Relf was also removed. No minor character who went on to be significant in The Book of Dust ended up appearing. Mrs. Cooper, the woman Will entrusts to look after his mother while heâ€™s away, does not appear. Will leaves Elaine in the care of his male boxing coach instead. It's not made explicit that Ruta Skadi and Asriel are former lovers (or not-so-former, given that The Subtle Knife implies they had sex soon after meeting again in the Republic), though Mrs Coulter does mention in the second season that Asriel once boasted to her of having had a witch lover, and in the third season says to Ruta that she was always too easily impressed by him. Juta Kamainen, the witch whose love John Parry scorned because he was faithful to his wife Elaine (and who kills him in the books), is removed. Two of the Gallivespians, the Chevalier Tialys and Madame Oxentiel, were omitted from the third season. And while Salmakia still exists, her accompanying Lyra and Will throughout their adventure in the world of the dead is omitted. As Ogunwe is no longer from Lyra's world in this version, his daemon (a cheetah in the books) does not appear. The fact that some of the witch clans side with the Magisterium against the clans who support Asriel is not mentioned. The Amber Spyglass has a small but explicit mention that the procession of ghosts includes mulefa and other non-human beings from other worlds. Here they're not shown, though nothing explicitly prevents them from being present offscreen. The ghosts of Lee Scoresby and John Parry fighting Spectres to protect Lyra and Will during the final battle before they go on to their rest is written out. Instead, they dissolve immediately after leaving the world of the dead. Various minor creatures from various worlds in both the Republic and Kingdom of Heaven's armies don't make an appearance, such as the hair-covered horseriders who fight for the Authority in the final battle, or the witches Ruta mentions having met in Asriel's camp who come from a world where witches can be either male or female and don't live longer than humans, but still fly. Several characters from the first book put in appearances at the end of the third book as the story winds down after all the fighting, such as the Gyptians (who meet the mulefa) and the Master of Jordan College (when Lyra returns to Oxford), but do not reappear in the series finale here.
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His Dark Materials / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Dr. Cooper, one of the scientists working on the Intercision, is female rather than male. Will's female piano teacher becomes his male boxing coach. Angelica and Tullio's younger brother Paolo becomes their younger sister Paola. John Parry's lawyer is female in the show. Lyraâ€™s Death is also female, rather than male.
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His Dark Materials / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: In "The City of Magpies", Will and Lyra rescue a cat who is being tortured by the children of the city, because CittÃ gazze natives have susperstitions about cats being evil (as implied here when Angelica says Lyra and Will aren't from there and stated more explicitly in the books).
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His Dark Materials / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: The Gyptians early on begin investigating the Gobblers abduction of children across Britain. Their efforts come to a head in storming Bolvangar to free the children and captured dÃ¦mons.
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His Dark Materials / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
His Dark Materials / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Cardinal Sturrock is shown to be behind the efforts of both the Consistorial Court and the General Oblation Board, and seems to purposely like pitting Mrs. Coulter and Father MacPhail against one another.
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His Dark Materials / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
His Dark Materials / int_3b113b7	comment	Lyra in the books was usually very hyper, carefree and mischievous, and just as childish and playful as could be expected of someone her age. It took some heavy Character Development up until the last book for her to outgrow this, and even so, she remained an extroverted person up to the end. In stark contrast, her TV series incarnation is much more mature, serious, subdued and conventionally heroic, and largely starts out that way instead of it being the result of her experiences (she does run around a lot and is clearly excitable at certain events, only not nearly as much as her book self). Dafne Keen's performance also gives Lyra a darker, more intense vibe in her mannerisms, especially compared to prior interpretations of the character.
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His Dark Materials / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
His Dark Materials / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: We know Lyra's fall from the balloon isn't fatal at the end of "The DÃ¦mon Cages", as she appears in the next episode promotion.
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His Dark Materials / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
His Dark Materials / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: The show makes it even more clear than the books that Ma Costa loves Lyra as if she were her own daughter. Lee starts to view himself as her surrogate father by the end of Season 1.
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His Dark Materials / int_476d2edb	type	Snakes Are Sinister
His Dark Materials / int_476d2edb	comment	Snakes Are Sinister: Played straight with Lord Boreal's dÃ¦mon, averted with Dr Lansellius's.
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His Dark Materials / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
His Dark Materials / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: The final episode of the second series; "Ã†sahÃ¦ttr" has Roger calling out to Lyra from within what appears to be a void between worlds.
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His Dark Materials / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
His Dark Materials / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Billy Costa survives in the novel, but dies in place of Tony Makarios here. Dr. Cooper seemingly dies in the sixth episode, "The DÃ¦mon Cages", while her book counterpart survives until at least midway through The Amber Spyglass. Subverted when she turns up alive in the third season after all. Ruta Skadi, after Sergi falls into the abyss. Her fate was ambiguous in the novel.
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His Dark Materials / int_491270ff	type	TouchingThroughGlass
His Dark Materials / int_491270ff	comment	Touching Through Glass: In episode 6, after liberating Lyra from the Intercision Machine, Mrs. Coulter reaches out to her through the glass barrier and attempts this.
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His Dark Materials / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
His Dark Materials / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: That (estimated) Â£50 million budget really shows when every shot looks like it came out of a cinematic movie. There are many establishing shots in the series, particularly when the Gyptians reach the north, and the many shots of London scenery.
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His Dark Materials / int_4a0821b4	type	Archnemesis Dad
His Dark Materials / int_4a0821b4	comment	Archnemesis Dad: As well as Lyra's complicated relationship with her parents, Will has a brief encounter with his paternal grandparents which ends when he realises they're willing to turn him over to the police.
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His Dark Materials / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
His Dark Materials / int_4ab9c868	comment	Boreal examines the skull the Lord Asriel previously proclaimed to belong to Stanislaus Grumman, and declares it to be an imposter after examining a hole in the skull. While this scene does not occur in the books, the meaning of the hole is explained. Grumman had his skull voluntarily trepanned as part of his initiation to become a Shaman, and all of his scholarly colleagues knew this. But, he had the procedure performed several years before the book starts, meaning the rim of the hole would have had the skin healed over and the sharp edges rounded. One of the characters later concludes that Asriel must have performed the trepanning on the skull post-mortem in order to fake Grumman's death, and that the examiners would have noticed this had they looked more closely. None of this is explained, and to an unread viewer it appears that Boreal concludes the skull is a fake after looking at a hole leftover from a bullet, leaving the viewer wondering why he thought this. (When we meet Grumman in series 2, the scar from his trepanning is visible at about his hairline, so it may be that Boreal knew where the trepanning hole was on Grumman's head.)
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His Dark Materials / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
His Dark Materials / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line:
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His Dark Materials / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
His Dark Materials / int_4f773434	comment	In the books, Lyra and Will were both the same age, 12 years old at the beginning of the story, which becomes a central plot point when they discover their blossoming sexual maturity at the same time and save the multiverse in the process. In contrast, while Lyra remains 12 in the show, its version of Will is officially 15, which marks a huge difference in maturation at that age range (something that only gets dissimulated in the show because this Lyra is also Wise Beyond Their Years) and doesn't lend itself easily to the same connotations. While this doesn't necessarily make any plot development impossible, a lot of the original's meaning gets lost.
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His Dark Materials / int_4fbc0887	type	Beneath the Mask
His Dark Materials / int_4fbc0887	comment	Mrs. Coulter, while still cunning, manipulative, glamorous and cruel, doesn't show as much effortless grace as she does in the books. In fact, this version of Coulter appears to have a very noticeable disorder, and her behaviour is almost bestial at times, especially when she's angry. This is opposed to the cold and calculating character from the books, who very rarely showed any cracks in her mask.
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His Dark Materials / int_5076ccdb	type	You Say Tomato
His Dark Materials / int_5076ccdb	comment	You Say Tomato: Members of the Magisterium pronounce Marisa Coulterâ€™s first name as â€œMar-ee-sahâ€�, while Lord Asriel calls her â€œMar-ih-sahâ€�.
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His Dark Materials / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
His Dark Materials / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": Lyra has her last name changed by Iorek from Lyra Belacqua to Lyra Silvertongue, in reference to Lyra pretending to be Iorek's dÃ¦mon to the King of the North Pole. When Lyra meets Lord Asriel, and he calls him by her old name, Lyra tells him to not call her that anymore.
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His Dark Materials / int_516ac9a8	type	Viking Funeral
His Dark Materials / int_516ac9a8	comment	Viking Funeral: The non-sea variant happens to Billy, much to the behest of his mother. This motivates her to finally fight back, as she originally wanted nothing to do with the Gyptians' fighting plan.
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His Dark Materials / int_5517f7a5	type	Just Think of the Potential!
His Dark Materials / int_5517f7a5	comment	Just Think of the Potential!: The doctors heading Bolvangar combine this with a For Science! attitude to justify the atrocities they commit at Bolvangar, although it's clear at least one of them knows it's a bullshit excuse, but falls back on Just Following Orders when it weighs too heavily on him.
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His Dark Materials / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
His Dark Materials / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: Iorek's claims that "You cannot trick a bear,â€� due to the scene of him demonstrating this to Lyra through fencing being Adapted Out. Instead, he just tells her it's impossible, even though she has evidence that the people of Trollesund tricked him and the audience has seen Mrs. Coulter trick Iofur, without the explanation that you can only trick a bear when he's acting like a human. In the books, Lyra and Will were both the same age, 12 years old at the beginning of the story, which becomes a central plot point when they discover their blossoming sexual maturity at the same time and save the multiverse in the process. In contrast, while Lyra remains 12 in the show, its version of Will is officially 15, which marks a huge difference in maturation at that age range (something that only gets dissimulated in the show because this Lyra is also Wise Beyond Their Years) and doesn't lend itself easily to the same connotations. While this doesn't necessarily make any plot development impossible, a lot of the original's meaning gets lost. Mrs. Coulter says that she was denied a doctorate because she was female, but the TV series already showed a woman with a doctorate in her world due to Gender Flipping Dr. Cooper.
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His Dark Materials / int_580be152	type	Adaptational Modesty
His Dark Materials / int_580be152	comment	Adaptational Modesty: The witches from the books were described to wear only a couple pieces of cloth, with religious characters even describing them as temptresses. The series' version of Serafina Pekkala, in turn, wears a long dress with not even a bit of cleavage.
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His Dark Materials / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
His Dark Materials / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Journalist Adele Starminster, with her investigations into the gobblers that led her to Ms. Coulter.
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His Dark Materials / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
His Dark Materials / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": On Lyra's world, the Magisterium nominally controls most academic study, and therefore the sciences are credited as part of the church, and not individual areas of study. Physics for example is referred to as "Experimental Theology". Discussed by Will and Lyra, when they figure out that Lyra calls "Anbaric light" what Will (and the audience) know as "Electric light". Furthermore she knows Electrum to be the resinous substance produced by trees that Will in turn knows as Amber. They both think the other is backwards. note Both are actually correct since Amber and Elektron are the arabic and greek names of the same substance, but one world chose one name instead of the other.
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His Dark Materials / int_5c1ec068	type	Big Red Button
His Dark Materials / int_5c1ec068	comment	Big Red Button: The intercision machine has one that says "ON" on it. Guess what it does.
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His Dark Materials / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
His Dark Materials / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: The higher ups at the Magisterium, including Father MacPhail, are furious at Mrs. Coulter's violations of Scholastic Sanctuary and the Watercourse Bill in her search for Lyra — not because they care about the scholars and particularly the Gyptians who've been affected, but because it makes the Magisterium look bad.
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His Dark Materials / int_5d1cdda9	type	God Test
His Dark Materials / int_5d1cdda9	comment	God Test: The Witch's Consul requests Lyra demonstrate that she can read the alethiometer without the use of books by choosing a specific sprig of cloud pine that belonged to Queen Serafina Pekkala from a large unlabelled collection. She gets it after consulting the alethiometer for less than a minute.
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His Dark Materials / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
His Dark Materials / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: In episode 3, the Zeppelins from Another World aesthetic takes on this vibe, as the Magisterium uses them to look down on the populace.
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His Dark Materials / int_5ee26f31	type	Adaptation Amalgamation
His Dark Materials / int_5ee26f31	comment	Adaptation Amalgamation: References to the Great Flood and Scholastic Sanctuary are nowhere to be found in Northern Lights, note John Faa does mention a flood of 1953 (the same year as the North Sea flood IRL), during which Lord Asriel rescued two Gyptian children, but it is unclear if this was the flood that was depicted in "La Belle Sauvage" and are taken instead from The Book of Dust. The first episode's opening scene, depicting Lord Asriel delivering Lyra to Jordan during the flood, is based on the ending to La Belle Sauvage. Dr. Carne was only ever referred to as "The Master" in the original trilogy, and it wasn't until The Secret Commonwealth that his name was revealed.
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His Dark Materials / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
His Dark Materials / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Several: In general, certain characters are given scenes that expand on their point of view, or entirely new subplots, as child-labor laws prevent Dafne Keene from carrying every scene. Lord Boreal especially is given a much larger role, as the twist of him also being Sir Charles in Will's world can't be kept secret in a visual medium. We also get the reveal that Stanislaus Grumman is actually John Parry, who travelled between worlds several years ago very early on in the series, since it shows us right away why Boreal is so interested in Elaine and Will Parry, and it allows for a set up of Will's own destined role. The first episode establishes dÃ¦mons tend to be shy around new people, saving the crew from having to give one to every single background extra; initially they did try to shoot with multiple dÃ¦mons in the background of shots, but they quickly realised it was far too busy and distracted the viewer from the story. Many characters' dÃ¦mons are also changed from larger animals to ones with smaller profiles that are presumably more cost-effective. Pan can still shapeshift, and will often change, but his go-to form is an ermine, which allows the animators to not need a separate character model for all of his scenes. The second episode, "The Idea of North", establishes that locations in both Lyra's world and Will's world at least roughly line up between universes. In the novels, the poles of the two worlds don't line up, so Will's Oxford is located roughly in Lyra's Svalbard. The series changes this so that Boreal can more easily travel between the two without Offscreen Teleportation. In the books Mrs. Coulter was generally very cold and unreadable, while her dÃ¦mon's behaviour gave away her emotions. Since this wouldn't be very interesting for an actor to play, Ruth Wilson instead portrays her as far more emotional and erratic. Lyra and Will were both about twelve in the books, on the cusp of puberty, but in the show Will at least is about fifteen. Casting an older actor who's already gone through puberty helps with avoiding major continuity issues if the actor visibly ages too much between seasons (seasons one and two were shot back to back to avoid this, but season three didn't start filming until more than a year after the first two had wrapped, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic). Kaisa was originally a snow goose in the books, but becomes a gyrfalcon in the show; the effects team initially tried to go with his book form, but they couldn't make a digital goose speak without it looking silly. Episode 6. "The DÃ¦mon Cages", turns Bolvangar into an Oddly Small Organization to simplify the workplace dynamics between the scientists. In the books the Gallivespians — people who are the height of a human's handspan — ride large dragonflies or birds, while the trailer for the third season shows that they're capable of independent flight, likely to save on the CGI for their mounts. Most angels in the books are invisible to the human eye save at dusk and dawn, and when they are visible they're naked. The former would have had Will apparently talking to himself a lot of the time, and the latter definitely wouldn't fly with the show's rating and would be a drain on the CGI budget. The show thus has the angels taking fully dressed humanoid form most of the time (though still with an unearthly look) and only occasionally taking on their CGI, incorporeal forms. King Ogunwe was an old friend of Asriel's in the books, whereas in the show he's from another world entirely and Asriel is shown rescuing and recruiting him into his army. This allows Ogunwe to act as an Audience Surrogate as he's brought up to speed, and the CGI team didn't have to account for yet another dÃ¦mon.
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His Dark Materials / int_61d054a0	type	Animal Stereotypes
His Dark Materials / int_61d054a0	comment	Animal Stereotypes: Played up from the source material. Several of the main characters have small traits in common with their animal dÃ¦mons. Mrs. Coulter and Lee Scoresby both fight like their dÃ¦mons, with Mrs. Coulter jumping and beating on people like a monkey, and Lee jumping and kicking people like a hare.
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His Dark Materials / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
His Dark Materials / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The series finale ending titles strongly allude to The Book of Dust, suggesting a possible TV continuation as well.
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His Dark Materials / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
His Dark Materials / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Besides the above mentioned cat torturing, the children of CittÃ gazze, led by Angelica and Paola, form a mob to kill Lyra and Will and take back the knife. They probably would have succeeded if Serafina Pekkala hadn't shown up in time.
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His Dark Materials / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
His Dark Materials / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: Adele Starminster. Introduced towards the end of episode two, looking like she's going to be one of Lyra's few adult allies. However as her dÃ¦mon wasn't seen to evaporate into Dust â€” as is the case when a dÃ¦mon or the person it's bonded to are killed â€” her fate is left ambiguous.note Another point agaisnt her death is that she unambiguously was not killed in the books, but simply booted from the party.
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His Dark Materials / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
His Dark Materials / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: The opening title sequence has this, with Lyra and Will going up separate stairs, with the same set of stairs folding in on itself multiple times in a corridor. When Lyra destroys the intercision machine at Bolvangar by running it with its doors open, it seems to implode, and cause the corridors and rooms around it to do so, too, before finally blowing up.
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His Dark Materials / int_688238d6	type	Wimp Fight
His Dark Materials / int_688238d6	comment	Wimp Fight: An interesting case as Mrs. Coulter fights just like her monkey dÃ¦mon with lots of slapping, which Ruth Wilson is actually able to make look painful and hard to defend against. It helps that the guy she is wailing on has a bullet through his shoulder, meaning she has a devastating weak spot she can pound on with ease.
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His Dark Materials / int_6a8810a	type	Magic Compass
His Dark Materials / int_6a8810a	comment	Magic Compass: Naturally, the show features Alethiometers, which both Lyra and the Magisterium use to let them answer any question and point them to the truth. It's stated multiple times that reading one can take weeks of deliberation, guesswork, and manually checking through various guidebooks, which makes it more amazing that Lyra, a small girl with no prior knowledge of the devices, can read it just fine in often less than a minute.
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His Dark Materials / int_6b4f4350	type	Zeppelins from Another World
His Dark Materials / int_6b4f4350	comment	Zeppelins from Another World: Lyra's world has zeppelins for long-distance transport, in place of planes. This is owing to the world having the technology level of the 1930s, and a Diesel Punk aesthetic. Mrs. Coulter even has a fancy private one she uses to go from London to Svalbard.
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His Dark Materials / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
His Dark Materials / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: For those who have undergone intercision, their eyes don't reflect light properly, instead being flat without reflection, even under harsh light. It's very subtle, but combined with their flat affect, remarkably unsettling.
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His Dark Materials / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
His Dark Materials / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Giacomo Paradisi dies after training Will how to use the knife.
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His Dark Materials / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
His Dark Materials / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: John Parry's dÃ¦mon Sayan KÃ¶tÃ¶r is voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Andrew Scott's co-star in Fleabag. In the former show her character fell in love with Scott's priest character; here she literally plays his soul!
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His Dark Materials / int_71642c70	type	Viewers Are Goldfish
His Dark Materials / int_71642c70	comment	Viewers Are Goldfish: Quite a few book fans took issue with the opening text crawl spelling out Lyraâ€™s world and how itâ€™s a parallel universe, as if the crew have no confidence that viewers would be able to pick up the rules on their own like in the books.
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His Dark Materials / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
His Dark Materials / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: Tony Costa's dÃ¦mon, Lyuba.
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His Dark Materials / int_7225232	type	Self-Punishment Over Failure
His Dark Materials / int_7225232	comment	Self-Punishment Over Failure: Father MacPhail is shown burning himself on a candle after basically declaring war on the witches, acknowledging that the act is a sin even if he perceives it as a necessary one. He's also punishing himself for allowing Mrs. Coulter to kill the Cardinal and ensure that he gets voted in as his replacement. Mrs. Coulter does the same after poisoning Lord Boreal.
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His Dark Materials / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
His Dark Materials / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: Mrs. Coulter does a small-scale variation with Lyra, outright denying things Lyra can see with her own eyes, such as the Golden Monkey being able to move more than a few feet from her. Lord Boreal and his mooks attempt this on Elaine Parry, with the added benefit that she is already mentally ill. Despite her mental state she never falls for their tricks; in fact her paranoia makes her even more aware of their odd behaviour and things being out of place in her home, and her son Will is completely cogent and becomes suspicious of them as well.
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His Dark Materials / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
His Dark Materials / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: Use of the Spy Flies are this to the Magisterium. Ma Costa claims that they are frightened of them, as they don't fully understand them, and forbid their use, even to the higher ups in the organization. Mrs. Coulter's use of them to hunt Lyra even disturbs the usually stoic and rule-breaker Boreal.
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His Dark Materials / int_72ce3f54	type	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul
His Dark Materials / int_72ce3f54	comment	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Iofur Raknison is much more inclined to argue with and not blindly trust Mrs Coulter in this version, whereas in the book he was completely taken with her.
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His Dark Materials / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
His Dark Materials / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Mrs. Coulter is hinted to be a survivor of childhood abuse, something which was never mentioned in the books - she was only slightly suggested to have had a stern upbringing when she's shown not to know any lullaby.
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His Dark Materials / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
His Dark Materials / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Angels loyal to The Authority (that's what they think, but they actually serve Metatron) are shown as fiery red spirits, angels rebelling against The Authority/Metatron and fighting as allies of Lord Asriel, Lyra's father, are shown as cool blue spirits.
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His Dark Materials / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
His Dark Materials / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Downplayed, and more in a technical sense. Will Parry was never incapable in the original books, but here he is shown taking real boxing lessons at school, as opposed to the books where his skills amounted to self-taught impulse and street fighting experience.
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His Dark Materials / int_7390323c	type	Sticky Fingers
His Dark Materials / int_7390323c	comment	Sticky Fingers: Lee is a bit of a pickpocket.
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His Dark Materials / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
His Dark Materials / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Since child labour laws meant that Dafne Keen couldn't be used in every scene, this adaptation focuses on the plots of several adult characters as much as Lyra's story. Will loses two fingers from his left hand in the books, but since Amir Wilson himself is left-handed, the damage was switched to his right, non-dominant hand.
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His Dark Materials / int_8061f788	type	Separated by the Wall
His Dark Materials / int_8061f788	comment	Separated by the Wall: By a door actually. As part of her escape from Bolvangar, Lyra locks Mrs. Coulter in her suite by shutting the door and bashing the electronic lock with a fire extinguisher. They end up screaming with impotent rage through it at one another.
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His Dark Materials / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
His Dark Materials / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: "Armour" is a good deal more comedic than the rest of the first season, what with the introduction of Lee Scoresby and Lyra fully transitioning into a Guile Hero.
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His Dark Materials / int_82933b02	type	Button Mashing
His Dark Materials / int_82933b02	comment	Button Mashing: Lyra does this to destroy the intercision machine, even admitting not even she knows what might happen.
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His Dark Materials / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
His Dark Materials / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Angelica, Paola and possibly the rest of the children in CittÃ gazze. In the book they chase Lyra, Pantalaimon and Will to a villa outside the city, threaten them with a gun, and things get really nasty before the witches show up in time to save the heroes; plus Angelica is completely unrepentant when asked about it later. In the show Serafina Pekkala arrives before a fight starts and scares the children away. Later when Angelica and Paola encounter Mary (mentioned in the book, the details of the scene were created for the show) and they learn she's looking for Lyra, Angelica casually says they tried to kill her; seeing the appalled look on Mary's face, she tentatively asks 'Was that wrong?' Paola then begs Mary for a hug. It wakes viewers up to the fact that however feral these two are becoming, they're still scared and traumatised children whose world has utterly fallen apart, and they just want their parents and brother back.
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His Dark Materials / int_8591611a	type	Shameful Strip
His Dark Materials / int_8591611a	comment	Shameful Strip: When Lyra is being processed at the station at Bolvangar they make her do one of these, ostensibly to check how "developed" she is, but clearly in order to intimidate and humiliate her as well. Downplayed in that she's not so much frightened as annoyed and wary. At least until she and Pan notice a rack full of the same jump suits they found Billy wearing, and realize where they actually are. Then she begins to panic.
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His Dark Materials / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
His Dark Materials / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: While in "our" world, Lord Carlo Boreal drives an entirely black Tesla Model X. Its near-silence, sleek shape and insectile folding doors allow it to double as a Sinister Car, very much in effect when Boreal 'helps' Lyra escape from DI Walters in order to steal the alethiometer.
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His Dark Materials / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
His Dark Materials / int_8ace85ef	comment	King Ogunwe was an old friend of Asriel's in the books, whereas in the show he's from another world entirely and Asriel is shown rescuing and recruiting him into his army. This allows Ogunwe to act as an Audience Surrogate as he's brought up to speed, and the CGI team didn't have to account for yet another dÃ¦mon.
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His Dark Materials / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
His Dark Materials / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The Gyptians fit this quite well.
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His Dark Materials / int_8fe962f3	type	Battle Discretion Shot
His Dark Materials / int_8fe962f3	comment	Inverted in the Iorek-Iofur fight, which goes for a Battle Discretion Shot instead of swiping Iofur's jaw off and snapping his neck centre frame, as the movie adaptation did.
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His Dark Materials / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
His Dark Materials / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Dr Rendal gets killed by the mother of Billy Costa, a child he helped slice his dÃ¦mon from.
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His Dark Materials / int_946a37a3	type	Ignored Aesop
His Dark Materials / int_946a37a3	comment	Ignored Aesop: Despite Lee Scoresby's speech about how loving someone doesn't entitle others to control them, Mrs Coulter still proclaims that she needs to know what ideas Lyra has been exposed to.
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His Dark Materials / int_970b51b6	type	Adaptational Diversity
His Dark Materials / int_970b51b6	comment	Adaptational Diversity: The Gyptians are described in the books as being a British-Netherlander ethnic group, likely belonging to that world's version of Roma people given their name ("Gyptian" being an archaic real life word for them), with most of its members having Dutch or vaguely European names to match. Here, the actors playing the Gyptians are of eclectic ethnic backgrounds.
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His Dark Materials / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
His Dark Materials / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Of the adult characters we've spent the most time with, it's Lord Carlo Boreal who dies first.
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His Dark Materials / int_986c3163	type	Mouth of Sauron
His Dark Materials / int_986c3163	comment	Mouth of Sauron: The Witch Consul Dr. Lanselius acts as this for the entire witch nation, including all the separate tribes. He oversees the diplomatic meetings to ensure their autonomy from the outside world, and especially from the Magisterium, as well as being their public face. He's also Creepy Good, but is firmly on the side of good.
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His Dark Materials / int_98c4ccf1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
His Dark Materials / int_98c4ccf1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Mrs Coulter consistently and intentionally calls Mac Phail "Hugh" when she wants to mock him, both when they are alone and in front of others, despite his increasingly angry demands that she address him as "Father President Mac Phail". Eventually he has her gagged by his guards to make her stop saying it.
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His Dark Materials / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
His Dark Materials / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: The best description of Giacomo Paradisi's decision to poison himself rather than let himself be attacked by the spectres after he passes on the subtle knife to Will.
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His Dark Materials / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
His Dark Materials / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: Mrs Coulter uses this as a reason as to why she experiments on the Gyptian and other abducted children, and also why she freed Lyra from the intercision machine, as she doesn't want to hurt her daughter, even for her and the Magisterium's own twisted ends.
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His Dark Materials / int_9b53f32	type	Exposed to the Elements
His Dark Materials / int_9b53f32	comment	Exposed to the Elements: Witches aren't bothered by the cold of the arctic. Serafina often wears a thin dress in a blizzard around people bundled in thick wool and furs.
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His Dark Materials / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
His Dark Materials / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The opening credits contain a lot of teasers for future events. Even the intro of the first episode shows the Angels, the Amber Spyglass, the Subtle Knife, and the existence of multiple worlds. The very opening of the show hints at Will making their debut far sooner than they do in the books. Lyra discovers blueprints of "The Station" (Bolvangar) and the intercision machine several episodes before either makes an actual appearance. Mrs. Coulter picks up a small bottle and sniffs it, reacting with distaste. It's poison, and she later pours it into a bottle of wine that she gives to Lord Boreal, which kills him.
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His Dark Materials / int_a0774be0	comment	Forgotten First Meeting: Invoked by Lord Boreal who at one point uses the alias "Charles Latrom", and approaches Elaine Parry on the street, claiming they met before while her husband was in the military. He's counting on her mental illness making her doubt her memories. Played straight when Lyra also meets Lord Boreal in Will's world but she fails to recognize him until he flat out point out to her that they've met before.
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His Dark Materials / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
His Dark Materials / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Mrs. Coulter has a few moments when she reflects on her poor treatment of Lyra. Dr. Rendal and a scientist are discussing the improved intercision machine, and Dr Rendal seems to be having moral qualms about his work that he admits keep him up at night. The show firmly denies that he deserves any kind of mercy for this, with Ma Costa unhesitatingly killing him.
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His Dark Materials / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
His Dark Materials / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Single Tear: Lord Boreal sheds one upon dying poisoned by the woman he wanted as his partner.
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His Dark Materials / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
His Dark Materials / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Lyra is described as having dirty blonde hair in the books but is a brunette in this series, with Daphne Keenâ€™s hair being much darker than even the light brown Dakota Blue Richards sported in the film. Somewhat zig-zagged with Mrs. Coulter. Ruth Wilson portrays her with dark brown hair, just as the character was first described as having in the initial trilogy. However, Philip Pullman was so taken with Nicole Kidmanâ€™s blonde tresses in the film, he declared heâ€™d been â€œwrongâ€� in making her brunette and has subsequently written Coulter as fair-haired. So while Wilsonâ€™s appearance is in keeping with Pullmanâ€™s original vision, it disregards his later reimagining. As with the film, Serafina Pekkala has brunette hair instead of blonde. Dr. Mary Malone has black hair in the books, but is a redhead in the series.
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His Dark Materials / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
His Dark Materials / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Due to the addition of new and expanded subplots, many minor characters from the books have significantly larger roles in the series. Examples include Lord Boreal, Benjamin de Ruyter and Elaine Parry. Perhaps most notable, however, is Father MacPhail, who wasnâ€™t introduced until the third book but has played a major role in the series since the premiere episode. Mrs. Coulterâ€™s role in The Subtle Knife is quite limited compared to the other books, but season two substantially expands her involvement. She features in many original scenes not present in the novel, and even interacts with characters she never meets book-wise, such as Lee Scoresby and Dr. Malone. Ruta Skadi did not appear in The Amber Spyglass, though her clan was mentioned to be taking part in the battle. Here, she features prominently as a member of Asrielâ€™s council.
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His Dark Materials / int_a823fa03	type	The Un-Smile
His Dark Materials / int_a823fa03	comment	The Unsmile: Sister Clara has lost the ability to emote properly. Her attempts to smile look forced and alien.
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His Dark Materials / int_a8357dc2	type	No Woman's Land
His Dark Materials / int_a8357dc2	comment	No Woman's Land: Downplayed, as the general populous of women in Lyra's world are subservient to the Magisterium, not all men in general, but Lyra's world is still several decades behind our own when it comes to sociopolitics, and it appears women have far fewer job opportunities than men do. The male-dominated Magisterium seems to only have one female member, Mrs. Coulter. Meanwhile female scholars are apparently rare in Lyra's world; Lyra is quite surprised to find that the physicist she needs to talk to in our world is Mary Malone. Later on, when Boreal tries to offer funding for Mary's research (and by extension, overwatch the project) he unwittingly gets off on the wrong foot entirely by "complimenting" Mary on her work ethic, while from her (and our) point of view, he's being incredibly patronizing. This is what leads Mary to suspect that something is off with his offer. Then, when Mrs. Coulter also crosses into our world and meets Mary, she's stunned that the other woman has so much that was denied her; the Magisterium refused Coulter the right to earn a doctorate and she later rants about only being able to publish papers if a man took the credit for it.
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His Dark Materials / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
His Dark Materials / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Lyra and Will both start out thinking this, but it's subverted to hell and back with the Gyptians, who are incredibly capable and take dangers the children face quite seriously.
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His Dark Materials / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
His Dark Materials / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: One of the scientists tells Dr Rendal to not leave the doors open to the intercision machine, otherwise it will go "on the fritz". Lyra uses this information while escaping from Bolvangar to blow up the device. In "The Scholar", Mrs. Coulter alludes to using self-control similar to that practiced by witches that lets her control her dÃ¦mon and not get knocked out, while Coulter visited Mary Malone. Later in the episode, while her Monkey dÃ¦mon was being attacked by Pan, Mrs. Coulter slowly stands up, visibly trying to brush off the pain in defiance of her dÃ¦mon being mauled.
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His Dark Materials / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
His Dark Materials / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Lord Boreal hounds Elaine Parry to get the answers he needs about her husband's discoveries, and sends his henchmen to ransack the house while she and Will are out. By the time he finds out from Fra Pavel that John Parry's son will lead him to what Parry was looking for, both Elaine and Will have gone into hiding, it'll be much harder for Boreal to track Will down, and Will obviously isn't going to cooperate with him should he be found.
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His Dark Materials / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
His Dark Materials / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Lyra's reaction when she sees the suit in Bolvangar, the same one Billy was wearing when they found them in the fishing village. Also her reaction to the way the intercision machine starts to destroy itself after she's turned it on with its doors open, especially when the glass of the control room window suddenly cracks all over and the room appears to be imploding. Also her reaction to being tricked into admitting that she knows where Will is and that the Pale-Faced Man knows who she is.
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His Dark Materials / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
His Dark Materials / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Lee Scoresby and John Parry risk life and limb and both end up dying in the process just to make sure that Lyra is under the knife bearerâ€™s protection. However, by the time they finally meet, Will has been with her for some time and has become the knife bearer without their help. They also failed because Will going off to look for his father left Lyra open to being kidnapped by Mrs. Coulter at the end of the season.
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His Dark Materials / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
His Dark Materials / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: In episode six, we see Will watching a video of John Parry, clearly still in "our" world, and the video is dated 2006, putting the setting of the series itself close to the present day, rather than the year the books were published. (This leads to minor tweaks to the story, such as Will being able to look up information on a smartphone rather than having to go to a library.) Lyra's world is consequently updated from a vague 19th century level of technology and society to roughly 1930s (with the addition of zeppelins and similar changes).
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His Dark Materials / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
His Dark Materials / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: An adaptational inversion. Father MacPhail is President of the Consistorial Court of Discipline in the book series, meaning his authority is matched by his counterpart in the Society for the Work of the Holy Spirit, but not exceeded by. In fact it's fairly clear that no one in the Magisterium exceeds his authority. Here he is lower ranked, with a Cardinal overseeing his work. However, MacPhail is introduced in the series earlier than in the books, and in Season 2, Episode 1, Mrs. Coulter wants to kill the already wounded Cardinal Sturrock to further promote MacPhail in the Magisterium.
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His Dark Materials / int_b5185c4c	type	Extra-Dimensional Shortcut
His Dark Materials / int_b5185c4c	comment	Extradimensional Shortcut: The "Subtle Knife" can allow its user to make cuts of different sizes through dimensions and realities; it can make small ones enough for spying on others or pinching objects, or big enough to allow people to walk through.
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His Dark Materials / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
His Dark Materials / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: When Mary calls the Alethiometer a compass, she is immediately corrected by Mrs. Coulter - a subtle but sharp jab at the first bookâ€™s North American title. (Nowhere in the books is the alethiometer ever directly called a â€œgolden compass.â€�)
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His Dark Materials / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
His Dark Materials / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: The Lady Salmakia played a much smaller role in the series than she did in the books, specifically by not accompanying Will and Lyra to the Land of the Dead.
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His Dark Materials / int_b98a8902	type	Soul Eating
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His Dark Materials / int_b9db28ab	type	Emotionless Girl
His Dark Materials / int_b9db28ab	comment	Emotionless Girl: Played with. The nuns/nurses who staff Bolvangar appear to be this, but are actually an example of...
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His Dark Materials / int_b9e8ad28	type	The Multiverse
His Dark Materials / int_b9e8ad28	comment	The Multiverse: The show shows the concept of alternate universes in its title sequence, with Lord Boreal visiting "our" world multiple times.
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His Dark Materials / int_ba46585b	type	Adaptational Backstory Change
His Dark Materials / int_ba46585b	comment	Adaptational Backstory Change: Roger is now an orphan who was brought to the college by his aunt, while in the books he had a family. Rather than the king of an unspecified African country in Lyra's world, Ogunwe is a Commander from a new world created for the series where his army is fighting its own version of the Magisterium called the Temple. Consequently, his cheetah dÃ¦mon is Adapted Out.
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His Dark Materials / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
His Dark Materials / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: When Lee is confronted by Mrs Coulter, he observes that they have both endured abusive childhoods from their parents, citing this as proof that she can't break him by torture because they've both already endured the worst the world could do to them, the difference being that Mrs Coulter passes on her pain where Lee won't.
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His Dark Materials / int_bbcdd673	type	One-Gender Race
His Dark Materials / int_bbcdd673	comment	One-Gender Race: Witches are only female and require human males to have offspring with. If the child is female she becomes a witch, if it's a male he's returned to his father once he reaches puberty, as was the case with Dr. Lanselius.
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His Dark Materials / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
His Dark Materials / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Downplayed, but noticeable as part of the general look of the Magisterium- their use of a circular symbol and the uniforms of the soldiers in Episode 7 are perhaps the best examples.
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His Dark Materials / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: John Parry is killed by a Magisterium soldier rather than a scorned witch. The Golden Monkey does not fall into the abyss with the others, but rather stays behind in order to detonate the explosives to destroy the Clouded Mountain. He then vanishes in a cloud of Dust after Coulterâ€™s plunge.
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His Dark Materials / int_c2d5b652	type	Playing Both Sides
His Dark Materials / int_c2d5b652	comment	Playing Both Sides: Mrs. Coulter will play whatever side she needs to against the other to get ahead and maintain her position. When she oversteps her boundaries with the Magisterium, she uses Asriel's capture by the bears to maintain her power. Then she asks the bears to keep holding Asriel hostage so that she'll keep this trump card.
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His Dark Materials / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
His Dark Materials / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Lyra and Roger. Neither have any romantic feeling for each, simply being the best of friends. Roger trusts Lyra as much as she does the same to him.
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His Dark Materials / int_c4835ce7	type	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
His Dark Materials / int_c4835ce7	comment	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: The Svalbard Armored Bears have very strict rules about when bears are permitted to kill each other. Through Iofur Raknison's machinations, Iorek Byrnison, then a prince, killed another bear and was exiled to become an Impoverished Patrician as part of his backstory.
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His Dark Materials / int_c505d6ec	type	Missing Reflection
His Dark Materials / int_c505d6ec	comment	Missing Reflection: Downplayed, but present. For the people who have undergone intercision, their eyes no longer reflect light properly. It's subtle but unnerving.
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His Dark Materials / int_c673f0cb	type	MisterExposition
His Dark Materials / int_c673f0cb	comment	Mister Exposition: Kaisa, Serafina's gyrfalcon dÃ¦mon, and Thomas, Lord Boreal's hacker, take turns with this. Kaisa even does so in parts of the narration.
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His Dark Materials / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
His Dark Materials / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Will and Lyra watch Paddington (2014) while trying to work out their next move.
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His Dark Materials / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
His Dark Materials / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The child catcher under the employ of the Gobblers. His whistle seems to have a hypnotic effect on children's dÃ¦mons, allowing him to capture them easily, but it's never shown if this is outright supernatural or just a mundane, albeit creepy, distraction.
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His Dark Materials / int_cd83fa5b	type	Spoiler Opening
His Dark Materials / int_cd83fa5b	comment	Spoiler Opening: The opening titles have quite a lot of easter eggs and Foreshadowing to events pertaining to specific plot points in the books that will later happen in the series. The visuals change each series, to foreshadow future series' events.
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His Dark Materials / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
His Dark Materials / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Subverted. They do exist, but Will has been deliberately avoiding seeking their help in dealing with his mentally ill mother because he fears they would separate them.
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His Dark Materials / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: Lee's Adaptational Personality Change has him begin the series this way. Character development kicks in near the end of the first season, and he becomes more selfless and focused.
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His Dark Materials / int_d563a53c	type	Batman Grabs a Gun
His Dark Materials / int_d563a53c	comment	Batman Grabs a Gun: Throughout the first few episodes Ma Costa refuses to fight with the Gyptians. That is, until Billy Costa is killed after his intercision, and suddenly changes her mind, with Ma Costa unhesitatingly killing Dr. Rendal during the storming of Bolvangar after he claims he was Just Following Orders.
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His Dark Materials / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Carlo Boreal is played here by the Black British Ariyon Bakare. In the books, while his race is not specifically mentioned, he's implied to be an old-blooded white European (or at least probably Mediterranean, owing to his Italian given name), as Pullman usually only goes to the racial specifics with canonically non-white characters like King Ogunwe or Ama. Billy, a member of a white Netherlander family in the books, is mixed race here. Most of his relatives remain white. This tells us something about Billy's father. Will Parry himself was also implied to be white in the books (per the cover art), but he is played by the mixed race Amir Wilson here. Ama is white rather than East Asian, as her home has been changed from the Himalayas to an island in the German Ocean (i.e. the North Sea).
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His Dark Materials / int_da6e9f5a	type	Sleek High Rise Apartment
His Dark Materials / int_da6e9f5a	comment	Sleek High Rise Apartment: Mrs. Coulter's Art Deco penthouse. It's austerely gorgeous, but evokes an unsettling response the longer Lyra stays.
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His Dark Materials / int_db212ca9	type	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
His Dark Materials / int_db212ca9	comment	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Played with. It's ambiguous how much of the characters' dialogue with their dÃ¦mons is actually out loud vs. inner monologues. They are all presented as out loud, but several donâ€™t appear to make sense as anything but internal.
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His Dark Materials / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
His Dark Materials / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Dr. Rendal who had been experimenting on people uses this as an excuse when he tries to beg for mercy from the Gyptians. This doesn't do him any good, and he gets his neck snapped by the mother of Billy Costa once she's established his role in her son's death.
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His Dark Materials / int_e13156e1	comment	Ma Costa is described in the books as a feared Gyptian matriarch and Mama Bear, which is also her portrayal in most adaptations. Her TV version, however, is infinitely less assertive and spends much of her early screen-time crying over Billy's disappearance, and doesn't seem to have any special reputation among her peers. Only later does she grow a tougher side, by way of Batman Grabs a Gun.
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His Dark Materials / int_e15138cf	type	Mysterious Protector
His Dark Materials / int_e15138cf	comment	Mysterious Protector: The Gyptians, in addition to their other responsibilities, have been protecting Lyra for her entire life.
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His Dark Materials / int_e294a0be	type	Our Souls Are Different
His Dark Materials / int_e294a0be	comment	Our Souls Are Different: DÃ¦mons initially appear as shapeshifting Talking Animals. When a person is "of maturity," the animal choice of a person's dÃ¦mon is locked to whatever best reflects that person. DÃ¦mons can speak to their person and others, too, though some like the golden monkey aren't very talkative. DÃ¦mons other than those of witches also cannot be far away from their person, otherwise both of them will be in incredible pain, or they get knocked out.
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His Dark Materials / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
His Dark Materials / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: While imprisoned at Bolvangar, Lyra starts a Snowball Fight during the roll call of the fire drill in order to have a moment to explore the facility with Roger.
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His Dark Materials / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
His Dark Materials / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: As in most previous adaptations, Tony Makarios and his storyline have been given to Billy Costa, with Billy's dÃ¦mon, Ratter, taking her name from Tony's dÃ¦mon in the book. Ironically enough, in this series, Billy has an older brother named Tony whose dÃ¦mon had recently settled.
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His Dark Materials / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Like in the books, despite falling in love, Will and Lyra both have to return to their respective worlds and since all portals have to be closed, they aren't able to meet again for the rest of their lives. They promise that both will go to a bench in their respective world's Oxford Botanic Gardens every midsummer's day to remember each other.
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His Dark Materials / int_e5d8460d	type	Unexplained Recovery
His Dark Materials / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: Dr Cooper resurfaces in Series 3 without it being explained how she survived being stabbed by Serafina in Series 1; Mrs Coulter is simply surprised to see her alive.
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His Dark Materials / int_e640b487	type	Infodump
His Dark Materials / int_e640b487	comment	Infodump: Similar to the narration which opened The Golden Compass, the shows' first episode starts with a text introduction, explaining the nature of dÃ¦mons, alternate universes, and vaguely what Dust is, and was included to clearly explain the explicit fantasy elements of the series while trying to keep As You Know exposition to a minimum. In "The Lost Boy" Kaisa narrates the opening to speak of the prophecy regarding Lyra and Will. The fourth episode of series 2 opens with a backstory for the knife, done in voiceover by Xaphania. As the knife was going to be introduced in more detail in the cut Asriel episode, it's possible that this was done to cover for that lost information. The first episode of the third season likewise opens with a short narration by Xaphania about the Authority.
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His Dark Materials / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
His Dark Materials / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: To blast open a doorway between the worlds, Asriel murders Roger and his dÃ¦mon Salcilia by forcibly slicing them apart.
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His Dark Materials / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
His Dark Materials / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Lyra and Will are both shocked when Pantalamion moves to offer Will comfort and lets Will touch him in turn after Will loses his fingers.
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His Dark Materials / int_e8497e34	comment	Adaptation Species Change: In the books, Serafina Pekkala's dÃ¦mon Kaisa is a snow goose; in the series, he's a gyrfalcon (a case of Real Life Writes the Plot; when trying the goose they found it was difficult to animate it speaking in any way that didn't look silly). In addition, Fra Pavel's dÃ¦mon has been changed from a frog to a rat, and Cardinal Sturrock's is no longer a macaw, but an insect. The series' version of Ogunwe is from another world, as he lacks a dÃ¦mon, when the original was from Lyra's world and had a dÃ¦mon cheetah.
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His Dark Materials / int_e84a7d27	type	Genre Refugee
His Dark Materials / int_e84a7d27	comment	Genre Refugee: Lee Scoresby. He is a Steampunk Cowboy in a fantasy Diesel Punk setting.
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His Dark Materials / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
His Dark Materials / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: When Mrs Coulter first visits 'our' world, Boreal dismisses this world as having less freedom than their own due to the emphasis on consumerism over faith, where Mrs Coulter is intrigued and frustrated to learn that female scholars have such greater freedom in this reality that Mary Malone is officially recognised as a scholar while Mrs Coulter could only publish anything if a man took credit for it.
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His Dark Materials / int_e9fb38	type	The Talk
His Dark Materials / int_e9fb38	comment	The Talk: Mrs Coulter steers very close into this territory, and talks to Lyra with ambiguity about how puberty and Dust are connected to each other, and says that the Intercision machine doesn't work on adults, but does work on pre-pubescent children (such as Lyra), and gives The Needs of the Many as a reason for all the experimentation done to the Gyptian children to reach the goal of not needing DÃ¦mons in adulthood.
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His Dark Materials / int_ea24a918	type	Lost in Imitation
His Dark Materials / int_ea24a918	comment	Lost in Imitation: This series includes some changes to the source material that were first introduced in prior adaptations: Expanding the role of Billy Costa by having him take Tony Makariosâ€™ place in the storyline, and giving his dÃ¦mon the name Ratter, which was what Tonyâ€™s dÃ¦mon was called in the novel. Giving Mrs. Coulter a private study she asks Lyra not to enter, which Lyra does anyway and learns valuable information about Coulterâ€™s involvement with the General Oblation Board. Changing the manner in which Lyra learns of her true parentage, and having Mrs. Coulter be responsible for delivering at least part of that information. Granting Ma Costa a more substantial part by having her accompany the other Gyptians to the north (no women apart from Lyra make the journey in the novel). Showing Mrs. Coulter slap the Golden Monkey, first suggested by Philip Pullman for the film. Depicting Serafina Pekkala with dark hair instead of being blonde. Having Lyra set fire to Bolvangar by destroying the intercision machine instead of exploding the kitchen stove. Downplaying the role of the Gallivespians by not having any join Lyra and Will on their journey to the Land of the Dead, first seen in the stage play.
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His Dark Materials / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
His Dark Materials / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: In "Malice", Serafina Pekkala and a group of witches arrive just in time to save Will and Lyra from Angelica and the other children after they're cornered on a rooftop.
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His Dark Materials / int_ee00a219	type	The Show of the Books
His Dark Materials / int_ee00a219	comment	The Show of the Books: The series is an adaptation of the Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials, with the intention of being Truer to the Text than its ill-fated film adaptation.
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His Dark Materials / int_f0653419	type	Commonplace Rare
His Dark Materials / int_f0653419	comment	Common Place Rare: Invoked when Boreal notes that an item in his collection was purchased in his world for the price of a loaf of bread and is worth enough in this reality to buy at least half of Jordan College.
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His Dark Materials / int_f4a5b281	comment	Ceiling Cling: Lyra ends up imprisoned with the other kidnapped children in the girls dorm at Bolvangar, with Mrs. Coulter comes calling. She ends up bracing herself under her bed to avoid the Golden Monkey.
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His Dark Materials / int_f6624c30	comment	Balthamos still dissolves with Baruch's name on his lips immediately after killing Father GÃ³mez, but no reason for his death is given. In the book, it was because he was stung by GÃ³mez's beetle dÃ¦mon and most angels are frailer than humans. In the TV series, it seems more like he willed himself to join Baruch in death after completing his last task, unless he was bitten by GÃ³mez's dÃ¦mon (a spider in this version) while crushing her, but this isn't shown.
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His Dark Materials / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Father MacPhail presents himself this way, and it's one of the sources of his dislike for Mrs. Coulter, as he does not seem to consider her a believer in Magisterium doctrine.
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His Dark Materials / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: At least suggested for Mrs Coulter; when she finds Lyra in Bolvangar and Lyra mentions Roger and Billy, Mrs Coulter assures Lyra that her friends will be spared, assuming that Lyra is only angry at the experiments due to her being personally endangered rather than out of anger at innocent children being subjected to such treatment.
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His Dark Materials / int_f93f10e	type	Can't Stop The Signal
His Dark Materials / int_f93f10e	comment	Can't Stop The Signal: Lord Asriel offhandedly mentions this, as his idea is to open up a rift between worlds, and thanks to the portal's luminescence and prominence in the night sky, the Magisterium can't hide the information about his research any longer, and must publish it in some capacity.
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His Dark Materials / int_fa712e27	type	Gay Conservative
His Dark Materials / int_fa712e27	comment	Gay Conservative: Fra Pavel, the Magisterium's resident Aletheiometer reader, is heavily implied to be a closeted homosexual that Lord Boreal threatens to out if he doesn't start doing a reading for him at one point.
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His Dark Materials / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Lee Scoresby recalls his own difficult past with an abusive father who once hit him so hard that he couldn't walk for weeks.
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