Something I Can Get Behind

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Right, so, in lieu of content, of which I have none today because I’ve spent the weekend doing boring shit, have a five minute Golden Compass trailer.

Pardon me for a minute while I drool.

 

…

 

Okay. On to business.

 

Note the bit about how Lyra’s world is run by the “Magisterium,” and that they are theorizing about a parallel universe that isn’t run by it.  That world is probably ours, which suggests two possibilities:

 

1. Asriel is wrong about our universe’s lack of Magisterium, and we just call it the Church instead, or
2. More plausibly for the squeamishness of Hollywood, the Magisterium is an Evil False Church, which has nothing whatsoever to do with any of the Good True Churches here.

I’m guessing that it’s some variation of the second, and the war will be to free Lyra’s world of the Magisterium but to save ours from their invasion. If I were going to spinelessly subvert the story to cover my ass from the privileged religious majority,* that’s how I’d do it. Then I could claim that it was just part of the story and not a metaphor in any way.

 

Either way, I am so ready to see this.

 

*“But Amelia, how do you really feel?”

Comments

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Your commentary on their appearances mirrors my own, although I have two things to add.

Asriel: Needs darker hair. I'm not sure why, but but he's not right in my head unless he's got black hair.
Mrs. Coulter: I believe Philip Pullman actually cast Nicole Kidman in his head when he wrote the books. However, I want her in red. Bright, flaming red. She was always in red to me ... did he mention that, or was that just me?.