Re: His Dark Materials

I feel the same, Rehab. I have never seen the film or books, so I couldn't make head nor tail of it, and switched off.

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I did watch it with Dementia my beloved ...she was has confused as me...so we decided to have some rough sex on the shag pile carpet instead...another bloody fantasy..

Re: His Dark Materials

I think you are right Rehab, reading the book probably would have helped although I went to see the Golden compass and didn't understand that either.

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Well at least there was good ending..... I hope

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Hope you didn't switch off after 5 mins.

Re: His Dark Materials

Its Sci-Fi/Fantasy, if you aren't into that, then no, you won't like it. Phillip Pullman is an aquired taste I think. I did find the books confusing & read them twice before I saw the film so had an idea of the story. Which was only the first book. The later books are even more confusing.

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I think you're right, Tiff.
Not having seen or heard of it before I didn't realise it was Sci-Fi, and I've never been in to that.

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Re: His Dark Materials

The main plot, if you can call it that is about parallel worlds, Lyra's uncle travels to find them, but she is the one going to travel & find them eventually. The Daemons are the companion souls of every person on Lyra's world. The plots are very complicated.

This might help....

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/hisda...rials/summary/

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I love Sci-Fi, not so much fantasy (although I do like Lord of the Rings). I find that the film genres are crossing over too much these days.

I am open minded to these stories but generally find that by the end the episode, I really couldn't care less what happened. Game of Thrones was the same for me. I watched two whole series and was none the wiser. Maybe I am just too old for this stuff?