The Botanic Garden
- Episode aired Dec 26, 2022
- TV-14
- 1h
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Will and Lyra have to overcome their final obstacle and heal the worldsWill and Lyra have to overcome their final obstacle and heal the worldsWill and Lyra have to overcome their final obstacle and heal the worlds
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- TriviaSeraphina gives Will's daemon the name Kirjava. In Finnish, the word means mottled.
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As someone who watched all three seasons of "His Dark Materials" but hasn't read any of the books, I felt like I was watching a show that wasn't prepared to meet me halfway, but happy to leave me confused and underwhelmed until the final couple of episodes.
With Lyra (Dafne Keen) now being kept safe by her mother, Mrs Coulter (Ruth Wilson) Will (Amir Wilson) tries to use the knife to search for her, however, he's under pressure from two angels to join Lord Asriel's (James McAvoy) army. Will find and liberates Lyra from her mother, who is taken in custody by Asriel's forces but not without cost, as the knife breaks as he tries to use it. When Lyra has recuperated, they set to fixing the knife as she wishes to use it to bring Roger (Lewin Lloyd) back from the land of the dead.
I'm going to say again, I've not read "His Dark Materials" at all. I get that the series is beloved and for some people just seeing it brought to life will be enough, but that's not the position I was in, not at all, and I really don't feel that this season, and the show overall did enough to explain to me what it was actually about. So, I spent the first season going "This is well made, but I've no idea what's going on" and the second going "This is well made, but there's plot here for maybe two episodes rather than seven" I've spent season three going "This is well made, but it's going to end soon, and I still don't feel like the story has started". I suppose, what I was expecting was the promised war between 'god' and his forces, against Asriel and his. I was expecting most of the season to be this, and in actuality Lyra wanders off on another side quest, and the war takes maybe a quarter of an episode.
I do think the visual effects and the performances are quite good and I really liked Ruth Wilson throughout (probably a bit more than I was supposed to) but if you asked me to sum up Lyra's story, or what the show was actually about, or what each character's motivations were, I wouldn't be able to. Despite how well made it is, in retrospect I regret investing my time in it.
With Lyra (Dafne Keen) now being kept safe by her mother, Mrs Coulter (Ruth Wilson) Will (Amir Wilson) tries to use the knife to search for her, however, he's under pressure from two angels to join Lord Asriel's (James McAvoy) army. Will find and liberates Lyra from her mother, who is taken in custody by Asriel's forces but not without cost, as the knife breaks as he tries to use it. When Lyra has recuperated, they set to fixing the knife as she wishes to use it to bring Roger (Lewin Lloyd) back from the land of the dead.
I'm going to say again, I've not read "His Dark Materials" at all. I get that the series is beloved and for some people just seeing it brought to life will be enough, but that's not the position I was in, not at all, and I really don't feel that this season, and the show overall did enough to explain to me what it was actually about. So, I spent the first season going "This is well made, but I've no idea what's going on" and the second going "This is well made, but there's plot here for maybe two episodes rather than seven" I've spent season three going "This is well made, but it's going to end soon, and I still don't feel like the story has started". I suppose, what I was expecting was the promised war between 'god' and his forces, against Asriel and his. I was expecting most of the season to be this, and in actuality Lyra wanders off on another side quest, and the war takes maybe a quarter of an episode.
I do think the visual effects and the performances are quite good and I really liked Ruth Wilson throughout (probably a bit more than I was supposed to) but if you asked me to sum up Lyra's story, or what the show was actually about, or what each character's motivations were, I wouldn't be able to. Despite how well made it is, in retrospect I regret investing my time in it.
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- southdavid
- Mar 10, 2023
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