Whose Dark Materials?

just rewatched the 2007 movie and we were all so mean to her. the costume design. the love and care to put dæmons on almost every crowd scene. that whimsical feeling only 00s movies can capture. dakota blue richards was a perfect lyra. sam elliott was a perfect lee scoresby. did they fumble some things? yes. i'm not super into some of the "fantastical" technology. the faces of the dæmons are a bit off-putting at times. the changes made to the flow of the plot are kinda strange on the latter half. and making pavel try and poison asriel robs the master of jordan of some of his character. but overall? the vibes: impeccable. i will be angry forever that we didn't get to see the true ending and they ended it with lyra saying "the alethiometre says i'm bringing my father what he needs :)" WHEN YOU KNOW. also crazy there was not a single mention of the northern lights in an adaptation of nothern fucking lights lmao

I don't think dust needs to exist personally

Me when I'm one of the main antagonists in the his dark materials series by Philip Pullman:

truly think one of the other lowkey funniest moments in hdm is when mrs coulter says she and asriel should've kept and raised lyra. like it's such a poignant scene, and i see where she was coming from, but also she was completely wrong. oh god. if there are two people who should not be around a child it's asriel "child killer" belacqua and marisa "child torture, for science" coulter. like, mostly staying away from lyra for a lot of her childhood was in fact the best thing they could've done for her. good job team. that is not the thing to regret here

watching a fictional character stop being the same age as you is fucked up

what if lyra's journey of looking for dust turned into looking for dust that didn't have its own machination of revenge yet?? dust that isn't angels or fallen angels. both of which, she realises, are in the wrong or at least going about their goal the wrong way in the case of the fallen angels (after all they were allied with asriel). so she wants to search for dust, true dust, dust that is the pure joy of being alive and having a mind and a will. a dust that says "the universe is alive and it cares". and that leads to the biblical fall through the actions of mary who can see dust through the amber spyglass

the fallen angels would become another antagonistic force along with heaven itself and the magisterium (and also lyra's parents). because they became what they swore to destroy, first mistake made by deciding to ally themselves with asriel

sometimes you have to sit down and decide "do i think this was a bad narrative choice or is this just the part of my brain that wants to see all my favorite characters end the story perfectly happy and thriving." and its surprisingly hard to tell sometimes because that part of my brain is loud as fucccckkkk.

Little freaks