![]() ![]() How poignant that the BBC has chosen the festive season to broadcast Jack Thorne’s virtuosic adaptation of Pullman’s no-less virtuosic inversion of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Welcome to the final series of His Dark Materials (BBC One), one that will cover the action of The Amber Spyglass, the last volume of Philip Pullman’s trilogy. “Brace!” he yells to his daemon as he activates an appealingly old-school parachute. ![]() How does he propose to complete the recruitment drive for his war against the Authority if his corpse ends up pulled from the wreckage? Let’s not even go there. ![]() James McAvoy’s face tightens, because his fascinatingly realised steampunkish flying machine is on a collision course with what air crash investigators call, in their quaint way, the ground. ‘W e’ve lost the rear oscillator,” says the snow leopard to Lord Asriel. ![]()
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