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Aug 2, 2016 · The lead character in Criminal Justice isn’t Pakistani; instead, he’s a young white man named Ben Coulter, played by Ben Whishaw (best known as Q from the Bond films.) The key difference here ...
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Roger and Lyra
The final episode of the first series expanded upon the closing sections of Northern Lights, stretching out the final three short chapters into one episode. One way in which this expansion manifested itself was that we got more time with Lyra and Roger, as the pair share intimate discussions in Asriel’s lab - ensuring that it’s all the more heartbreaking when tragedy strikes. The way this tragedy plays out is also slightly altered in the show. Just like in the books, Asriel takes Roger up a m...
Mrs Coulter and the Magisterium
As with just about every other episode in the debut series, we get a closer look at Mrs Coulter’s dealings with the Magisterium in the final episode. We see Mrs Coulter and Father McPhail discuss Lord Asriel before they head in his direction, and also see Lord Boreal discussing the alethiometer..
Meanwhile, in our world…
There was also time in the final episode for some more scenes set in our own world - largely setting us up for season two, which should land on our screens at around the same time of year in late 2020. We see Boreal discover the body that Will had accidentally killed in last week’s episode - before telling an associate to get rid of the body and follow the boy. Will, Boreal explains, will lead them to ‘the knife’ - given the second book is called The Subtle Knife, even non-readers will realis...
Lord Boreal and the Parrys
Once again, this week’s episode saw us check in on Lord Boreal and his trips to our own world – and this time we saw him come face to face with Will’s mother in a heated exchange. Our first look at the antagonist this week was as he sat in a car outside the Parry residence, where he watched the same footage of John Parry that Will watched last week. Later, he approaches the front door of the Parry house, and attempts to chat with Elaine - claiming to have urgent information about John, while...
Mrs Coulter and the Magisterium
At the very start of this episode we see Mrs Coulter, still at Bolvangar, let out a truly terrifying roar, before she confronts one of the staff members – telling her “they cut out your daemon, not your brain” as she looks for information about which direction Lyra went, eventually bullying her into submission. Later we see her talk with Father McPhail, who tells her that her project has failed and that Iofur has died. Mrs Coulter retorts that she knows Asriel most and that she therefore rema...
Lee Scoresby and Serafina Pekkala
Towards the end of the episode we see an agitated Lee Scoresby attend his destroyed balloon, before he his interrupted by the welcome appearance of Serafina, who tells him that he has not failed and that he is still needed. Lee claims that he is no use anymore and that he has played his part but when told that Lyra still needs him, he appears to pledge his allegiance to the cause. In the books this conversation takes place inside Lee’s balloon, before Lyra falls out.
Will’s back again
Although we didn’t get to see quite as much of Will Parry this week as last, he did crop up for another brief cameo. This time round we saw him watching a laptop screen, on which none other than Andrew Scott was being interviewed, with the name John Parry. Given the surname, it doesn’t exactly take a book reader to imagine what the connection between the two characters might be. Of course, this is the second time Scott has been seen so far after an even shorter appearance in episode 3, and we...
Bolvangar and Lyra’s escape
Given that Bolvangar was all condensed into one episode, there were naturally some discussions and conversations that didn’t make it from the page to the screen. In the books, for example, Lyra forms a friendship group of sorts with some girls called Martha, Annie and Bella, with whom she discusses a little about Dust and intercision, but we don’t see much of this in the series. In the series, Lyra ensures that the intercision process is put to a stop when she yells “Mum!” as Mrs Coulter ente...
Serafina
We got another look at Serafina Pekkala this week, with the witch arriving to help play a part in the rescue mission at Bolvangar. Had the show been completely accurate to the books we’d have been seeing a lot more witches in this episode – as in Northern Lights her whole clan comes to help before towing Lee Scoresby’s balloon. Hopefully we’ll get to see a few more witches in future episodes!
Will Parry
We’ve already had expanded roles for a couple of characters from book two in the series so far – notably Lord Boreal and Father McPhail - but this might just be the biggest one yet. Will is undoubtedly a hugely influential character in Pullmans trilogy, and is the main protagonist alongside Lyra in both The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, but to see him this early is a surprise, given that neither he nor the world he inhabits (our own one) appear in any form in Northern Lights. In this e...
Tony Makarios, Billy Costa and Ma Costa
This change is one we had predicted from episode one, and we were proved correct this week. As we suspected, Billy Costa has been combined with another character from the books - Tony Makarios. In Northern Lights it is Tony who Lyra finds separated from his daemon, not Billy, whom she is reunited with in Bolvangar along with the other captive children, including Roger. In the book, after being helped out by some villagers, Lyra finds Tony clutching desperately to a dried fish – the closest th...
Lyra’s capture
The episode ends with a terrified Lyra – pretending her name is Lizzie – being captured and taken to the much feared Bolvangar. Of course, she gets taken captive in the books as well, albeit she is taken by some Samoyed hunters after an attack on the travelling party during which they are submerged in a thick mist of fog, whereas in the series she is taken in her sleep.
Lee Scoresby
In this episode we were finally introduced to Lee Scoresby, one of the trilogy’s most beloved characters who is being played in the show by modern-day Broadway legend Lin-Manuel Miranda. Lee’s given a slightly more ostentatious introduction in the show than he does in the books, singing his way onto our screens at the start of the episode - but when you’ve got Lin-Manuel Miranda portraying him, why wouldn’t you take this approach? We also see Scoresby take part in a rather entertaining bar fi...
Mrs Coulter and Father McPhail
Although we didn’t get any extra shots of Lord Boreal making his way through our world in this week’s episode, we did continue the Magisterium backstory which has been weaving its way through the series so far. As has been the case in previous episodes, none of these scenes happened in the books – but have been added in for the series to portray what these characters were likely to have been doing for the duration of Northern Lights. This week, we see a row between Father McPhail and Mrs Coul...
The witches
The episode features a scene in which the daemon of Serafina Pekkala, a witch who is close with Farder Coram, confides in John Faa and Farder Coram – but a couple of changes have been made here. First, in the books Serafina’s daemon Kaisa is a snow goose – but that is not the case here, with Kaisa now represented by a gyrfalcon. In the book Lyra is present during this exchange, but that is also not the case in the series. There are also some minor differences in Lyra’s meeting with witches’ c...
The Search for Lyra
A small change was made here – while in the books it was very clear that a large search, involving Mrs Coulter and various authorities, was underway to locate Lyra, we get a much closer look at this manhunt on the show. Near the beginning of the episode we see Mrs Coulter, Lord Boreal and assorted other figures carry out quite a nasty raid on Jordan College, and Mrs Coulter even has a verbal confrontation with The Master about Lyra’s whereabouts – of which he is unaware. These scenes are an a...
Lord Boreal – Again!
In what has become one of the running themes of the show, this week we continued to follow Lord Boreal as he gets up to all sorts in a world that looks much like our own. This week we see him have a discussion with Thomas – the same character he met in episode two – where they talk about a man named John Parry, whose photo appears on a computer screen, played by none other than Fleabag star Andrew Scott. Now John Parry is a character who will become exceptionally important in future series –...
Benjamin De Ruyter and Mrs Coulter
Another area where Jack Thorne and the team have taken a bit of artistic license with Pullman’s original novel concerns the storyline involving Gyptian Benjamin De Ruyter. This story was a pivotal part of episode 3, as Benjamin joins forces with Tony Costa to break into Mrs Coulter’s home. While there, the pair obtain information pertaining to where The Gobblers are taking the missing children, before they are confronted by Mrs Coulter's monkey daemon. Although Tony mounts a successful escape...
Gyptians
Continuing on from last week’s episode, we’re getting much more exposure to the Gyptians than we did at this stage of Pullman’s novel. In this episode, we see them holding discussions and attempting a rescue mission as they aim to free the children from the Gobblers. This isn’t necessarily an invention for the series – it is suggested that the Gyptians are attempting to find the children while Lyra is in London in the books as well. Only, this happened in the background there – we’re getting...
Mrs Coulter, her monkey and Father McPhail
There are several minor changes made to storylines involving Lyra’s stay in London with Mrs Coulter. One of these is that Pan, Lyra’s dæmon, frequently hears noises coming from the walls during the night, later revealed to be Mrs Coulter’s monkey dæmon spying on them and travelling via secret passages. While Lyra and Pan do become suspicious of Mrs Coulter and her dæmon in the books as well, these secret passages are new for the show. We also see Mrs Coulter payed a visit by sinister magister...
Lord Boreal
Lord Boreal is a key figure in the His Dark Materials trilogy, but, as we mentioned last week, his role in the first book is relatively limited. We’re definitely not against him being given a more expanded role, though, and that continued this week. In episode two, we see Boreal pay a visit to a world that looks a lot more like our own than the one Lyra inhabits. We see him typing a message on a smartphone, before he meets Thomas, a character played by Robert Emms, in a modern coffee shop. Th...
- The Journey North. The entire first book of the series focuses on the journey North - and even here, there are some major changes made. First up, in the books, Lyra has no initial intentions of taking Roger with her (she actually forgets about him for a little while there!)
- Billy Costa/Tony Makarios. It's not uncommon for adaptations to combine two or more characters to make life a little easier - and that seems to be what His Dark Materials has done with Billy Costa and Tony Makarios.
- The Magisterium/Scholastic Sanctuary. While the Magisterium is a looming presence in both the original series and the TV version, there's no denying that they are significantly more powerful (and dangerous) on the small screen.
- The Gyptian Ceremony. The time when a daemon settles on a form is a big deal, in both the series and the books - but the series has created an entirely new ceremony to mark this moment.
Oct 20, 2014 · In the article “A Simplified Account of Kant’s Ethics,” Onora O’Neill tries to clarify Kant’s complex moral theory which has been dubbed before as “forbiddingly difficult” (411) to understand.
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Aug 2, 2011 · First of all, the book is indeed a romance, but written from the perspective of a seventy year-old woman. This isn’t the kind of book in which the elderly woman sees her life in the past tense, back there in the romance of youth. No, the novel honors her voice as a real human being, deserving of being heard.
In Acting on Principle Onora O'Neill shows that Kantian ethics has practical as well as philosophical importance. First published in 1975, the book is regarded as a classic account and defence of the Kantian ethical position.
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