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She’s already lost her best friend Roger (Lewin Loyd) - the reason for her quest to the North Pole - after her father Lord Asriel (Jame McAvoy) killed him to open up a gateway to other worlds. Joining Will on his journey this season is Lyra Belacqua Silvertongue (Dafne Keen), the almost “feral” protagonist of the first book. “Having a hero who’s a teenage carer and who is dealing with his mum’s mental health issues is really, really important as to who he is and what it says about the world, and about where we find our heroes.” It would have been very difficult to do that very quickly,” Thorne explains to SYFY WIRE. “When you’re doing the first episode of the second season, you need to start off with a running jump, and the way Philip tells Will’s story in The Subtle Knife is really delicate. Showrunner Jack Thorne said this was done because they were initially concerned that they wouldn’t get to tell this story at all, and also because they wanted to give the proper weight to Will’s experience.
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It’s the first time the book’s successfully made the jump to an on-screen adaptation, with New Line Cinema’s previous attempts to make a film series based on the books, only making it as far as the first book, with 2007’s The Golden Compass.īut The Subtle Knife’s journey to the screen already underway in Season 1, with the character of Will Parry (Amir Wilson) - ostensibly the series’ second lead - being introduced partway through and audiences getting to learn more about him and his home life, as the young teen serving as the primary caretaker for his mother who has mental health issues.
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Season 2 of the HBO series expands on all that as it launches into the television adaptation of The Subtle Knife, the second book in author Philip Pullman’s bestselling trilogy. When His Dark Materials wrapped its first season, it saw three of its main characters step into another world, while the others were also faced with life-changing decisions.