have i mentioned that i love anathema? because i fucking LOVE her. especially in the book. she’s so competent and tough and take-no-shit. she’s not especially pretty but doesn’t really mind, she has more important things to worry about: world to save, witchfinders to check off the list, small town boys to be endeared by.
i feel like the show stripped a lot of anathema’s intelligence from her. she’s a bit scatterbrained, struggling to find her footing, but in the book she’s so confident and smart and always one step ahead, as she’s meant to be. i often think about the scene where she’s mapping out ley lines in lower tadfield. the ley lines are moving, curving into a spiral, and yet she’s mapping them out with an air of certainty rivaled by mathematicians. absolutely brilliant. that’s a woman i trust with the end of the world.