we've been waiting for this for twelve years!

As someone who hasn't read the book(s) I get the feeling, that there is information missing.

There are reactions in certain scenes where I don't understand what gets the characters so excited. They act like its obvious, while it isn't for the unknowing viewer.
I have the suspicion, that there is a section in the book explaining the reaction which wasn't translated in the show sometimes.

I don't know if its true, but are the daemons all female? If so, I hope it gets explained why that is (unless I missed it).


Aside from that, great cast, great storytelling and great characters so far - Although I somehow love Marisa best so far, cunning and evil - my kind of woman :)

Finally... Part two of 'the golden compass' was never to come so this is something i am really waiting for!

the series turned woke to 11, forced diversity and making white peeps look bad on purpose.. it's made white people(authority)(bad People). vs black people( the good guys).. i stopped watching.

All I can say, besides this having been a wonderful, excellent show, is that I keep thinking Iorek will transform into Optimus Prime whenever he talks.

Superb! Let this be an example of how a story should be told. So many stories written in books lose substance when brought to life in motion pictures. After having to compress it into such a short amount of time to tell the tale properly, many details are left out that make a story special. It was wonderful to see a story that was given enough time to be told while not being over done as well in taking too much time as some are done when ending long after they should have ended just to milk them for more money, taking away from the magic of the whole telling of the story. After the final episode, I felt as if I was losing a loved one, yet satisfied with the closure I felt at its conclusion. In my humble opinion, I believe this to be one of the finest productions of which I have had the opportunity to experience. This is how to tell a story. Watching it again in the future is going to be a blast! Thank you for the adventure.

As someone who has never read the books the show comes off as surprisingly dull. It is certainly beautifully made, you can see the story has tons of potential and there is probably a lot of information (too much perhaps) missing compared to the books. But the storytelling in the show is clunky at best and most of the characters are just not very engaging to me. I think this more because of the writing than the actors, most of whom do well with the material they are given.

I don't know how (un)popular of an opinion this is, but I kind of liked the movie adaptation better. I found Lyra a much stronger character in that one.

Intriguing enough to keep watching but good lord, the story arc with the boy in the "real" world is a snoozer.

As someone who's read the books I was really looking forward to this but unfortunately the series falls short...
Too many things have been changed or are missing.
Vital information is simply revealed way too soon, you don't even get a chance to piece the clues together and figure things out for yourself. There is no mystery, no suspense.
I'm not satisfied with the portrayal of some of the characters either (Lyra, Lee, Yorek)
The opening sequence is amazing though!

The Golden Compass movie had it's flaws but overall it is much closer to the first book.

this is kidshow, like golden compass ,harry potter. if i knew i woldnt have started . but reluctantly finished s1

I had to force myself to watch season 1 in its entirety because I really had a hard time liking the show, no fun at all. I was hoping that this would be slightly more tolerable in season 2 but it turned out worse. The show itself is pretty complicated in every aspect, but I think the main issue for me is having to follow the show from the perspective of children, on top of the existing and poorly written fantasy.

The 1st episode of the 2nd season reminded me that I didn't like the show and reinforced the reasons why. I don't see this show ever going into a direction that would please me; time to let it go.

good show but wait for season two to finish so you won't be stuck at that end :rolling_eyes:

It’s so bad. The tempo is not right,. The screenplay is awful. The protesters is a white-spoiled kid. The behaviours and adventures are full of coincidence.

The mentality portrayed by the show is very dangerous. It tells you that you can be naive and should go to trust people who look nice and then you will fix problems as long as you are white with good intentions.

I can’t believe this is from HBO.

i love how the characters are very round, not totally evil nor totally good [spoiler](except for iofur, who was pure evil)[/spoiler]. i particularly like that children here are very childish, which means they act like they should, being the hero/heroin or not. the only thing, i think some things could be clearer for us who haven't read the books yet [spoiler](like the boy's arc and his mother's, i feel like it should have had episodes dedicated only to them, or some alternate episodes, or at least they should get some more space)[/spoiler], it's probably hard to translate all of that universe, but all in all it's pretty great. excited for next season!!

Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/nov/03/his-dark-materials-review-bbc

As a fan of the novels I welcome this adaptation. After the disappointing movie we finally get to see this world come to life on television. Is it perfect? No. Essential aspects from the books are missing or not given enough significance (notably, they fail to show how important the relationship between a human and their daemon really is). Still, I'm very excited for the next season!

I'm a fan of the book series and the production quality on this show is great, but man the writing is atrocious. I'm trying to keep watching to see if it gets better but so far I'm fully caught up and there is no shortage of cringeworthy moments in here.