Lyra's Oxford (His Dark Materials)

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Similarly, they probably don’t want to commit to another three-season television if there’s even a small possibility that it could end with the phrase “and then she woke up and found that it was all a dream. Who wants to know more about the separate lives of Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, before the great dramas began? Lyra's surname, Belacqua, is the name of a character in Dante's Divine Comedy, a soul in the ante-purgatory, representing those who wait until the last opportunity before turning to God. Lyra must separate from Pantalaimon when she enters the Land of the Dead in The Amber Spyglass, causing extreme pain to both of them; Pantalaimon avoids Lyra for a while afterwards.

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It can be argued that these radical rebel angels are behaving like true oligarchs, hoarding knowledge, resources and privileges for themselves. The Secret Commonwealth picks up several years after the conclusion of His Dark Materials, and follows the exploits of a 20-year-old Lyra Silvertongue. She receives a scant and haphazard education at the hands of Jordan scholars, being neither interested in study nor officially a student of the college. However, it could make a nice one-off or Christmas special if the BBC ever wants to test the waters for a longer follow-up.In the most recent edition of The Amber Spyglass released in the UK, the post-script "Lantern Slides" section shows Lyra studying the alethiometer (a rare truth-telling device) with Pantalaimon at age18. In La Belle Sauvage, readers learn the origins of Lyra’s alethiometer in a story set roughly 11 years before the events of Northern Lights. In the first novel of His Dark Materials, Northern Lights (known in US and some other countries as The Golden Compass), Serafina Pekkala tells of the prophecy of a girl who is "destined to bring about the end of destiny". Lyra tries to help the daemon, but soon realises that she is being tricked, and that the witch wishes the kill her as revenge for the death of her lover, who perished in the conflict which took place towards the end of the His Dark Materials trilogy between Lord Asriel’s forces and the forces of heaven. The production ran in 2003 and 2004; Lyra was played by Anna Maxwell Martin in the first run and by Elaine Symons in the second.

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That being said, the world of His Dark Materials is so complex that viewers may well appreciate a series that delves into the show’s deeper lore and unties some of those later mysteries. It introduces two new characters who clearly have legs for future adventures: the shrewd, friendly young scholar Dr Polstead, and the reputedly mad alchemist Sebastian Makepeace. In one particularly violent scene, a man is executed when he and his daemon are tied to separate horses which are make to run in opposite directions, severing the spiritual bond between them. Personally I have been wanting to juxtapose Lyra's alethiometer with the stunning instruments in our collection that inspired Philip Pullman in a truly immersive display for many years, so for me this is a dream come true. Despite this, they decide to sit on the same bench each year for an hour at noon on Midsummer's Day, in the Botanic Gardens in their separate Oxfords – so that they might feel themselves to be in each other's presence.

It's a witch's daemon, and it brings a life-or-death appeal to them from the Arctic, the setting of the first Lyra novel, Northern Lights. The books have more of an epic feel to the first trilogy, and could probably sustain even more seasons if the BBC were so inclined.

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If you delve among the inconsistencies and incomplete plot threads of The Amber Spyglass, you can find authentic grounds for a reprieve.However, it may be a tricky sell to the audience since Lyra wouldn’t actually show up until at least season two, and viewers would have to acquaint themselves with a largely-new cast of characters.