S2E5
The Scholar
His Dark Materials · 2020-12-06 · 48 min
FLICKFEEL
78
from 54 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Will and Lyra plan to steal the alethiometer from Boreal but are set back by an unforeseen guest. MacPhail takes decisive action, and Mary takes a leap of faith.
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
49
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
63
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 54 comments — 21 said when.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Warm most of the way through. In the last stretch it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Very little of it ever resolves.
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
➖ steady — holds one level all the way
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.
“it also made watching that scene one of the first times I didn't actually know how it was going to play out”
Whenisthisover▲ 124about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Honestly I didn't think anything could match how tense that confrontation is in the book but this did a really good job.”
stuckformonologue▲ 109about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Holy shit that scene was incredible”
megaman0781▲ 86about 75–100% inread it ↗
“that scene in Sir Charles's house was fantastic”
megaman0781▲ 86about 75–100% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Leanne Welham
- written
- Francesca Gardiner
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Kit Connor as Pantalaimon (voice)
Ella Schrey-Yeats as Paola
Sophie Okonedo as Xaphania (voice)
David Langham as Father Garret
Sean Gilder as Father Graves
Lewis MacDougall as Tullio
Julie Hale as Zoe (Mary's Sister)
John MacNeill as Security Guard