S1E3
The Spies
His Dark Materials · 2019-11-17 · 58 min
FLICKFEEL
67
from 35 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
From the clutches of the Gobblers, Lyra finds help from an unlikely place. It helps her put together more about her past and keep safe from Mrs Coulter and the Magisterium.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
40
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
38
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 35 comments — 16 said when.
The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 16 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“This show seems to do tension really well. Like Lyra breaking into the study last week, the part where the magesterium was searching the gyptian boats for her was excellent and so well done”
▲ 74about 0–100% inread it ↗
“As I suspected after last week it did a much better job of establishing characters properly and setting the scene for the rest of the story.”
mjprice86▲ 57about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I liked the changes to the books here. Definitely appreciated them fleshing out the spying mission and the spy fly stuff.”
mjprice86▲ 57about 75–100% inread it ↗
“this episode is where the plot really gets going”
JimmyTMalice▲ 48about 33–66% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Dawn Shadforth, William McGregor
- written
- Jack Thorne
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Simon Manyonda as Benjamin De Ruyter
Nabil Elouahabi as The Bright-Eyed Man
Geoff Bell as Jack Verhoeven
Mat Fraser as Raymond Van Gerrit
Robert Emms as Thomas
Clarke Peters as The Master
Jamie Wilkes as Pale Faced Man
Kit Connor as Pantalaimon (voice)