Last episode it was a goose, this episode it’s a fish. HDM book readers were quite saddened to see the lack of inclusion of the heart-wrenching bit where Billy (or in the book, Tony Makarios) would clutch at his fish as if it were his daemon, crying out for Ratter. Well, an interesting tidbit that we learned from Jack Thorne’s twitter yesterday - apparently the bit about the fish was included in the script, and even shot, but for some reason it didn’t work (and Thorne also specifies on twitter that it wasn’t cut for time). Does that make you feel better about the change or not? Were you upset by the lack of fish or were you okay with how things played out? Let us know!

I love them.

Are you enjoying the art design for the show?

Cast and crew talk about what’s appealing about the world of His Dark Materials, as well as give us a glimpse at some unseen footage! 

How many people out there wouldn’t want to play an original campaign inspired by HDM??

Discover more about the daemons for His Dark Materials and how they were brought to your screens (and listen to James McAvoy and Ruth Wilson both be huge fans of their daemons, and also Ruth once again coming through, talking about Head Puppeteer and the Golden Monkey himself, Brian Fisher. We all love Brian at this point). 

We’re nearly there.

“He is in the form of a monkey, but no ordinary monkey: his fur is long and silky and of the most deep and lustrous gold.”