Season 4 Episode 12: Patty

[enemyofperfect]

We're so close to the end of the series, and I'm not ready, but I'm also really looking forward to tonight's episode! Whenever you get a chance to watch it, please share all your episode reactions with us in the comments right here. Spoilers and speculation welcome!

Comments

[thatwasjustadream]

I'm going to have to read His Dark Materials. I think of it as YA, which isn't my first choice to read, but I take it that's not entirely the case? I keep bumping into references to it so maybe it's time to get it read!

Agreed on that last point. I hate to knock the show too much - it'll likely always stand out as a top ten favorite of mine, ever - but like a lot of franchises, I probably won't look forward to re-watching the last season.

There's still hope for the finale being a fun ride. :}

[erinptah]

HDM is more like Harry Potter or The Hobbit, in the sense that it's kid-friendly but loooong. It doesn't have any of what I think of as the stock tropes of YA -- there's no love triangles, there are complex and active/competent characters of all ages, the worldbuilding is extremely dense.

(Our first POV character is already familiar with a lot of it, too -- I was seriously confused when I read the first book as a kid, because there are so many weird concepts and alternate-universe terms that it doesn't stop to explain. Definitely a series that benefits from rereading, at any age!)

It's not a comedy like TGP, but if you want another series that sets up a cosmology for how souls/the afterlife/religion works and then explores the fallout, it's well worth checking out.

...also, I bet Lyra and Eleanor would get along swimmingly.