We meet Lee Scoresby’s beloved character in Episode 4, introduced via song, flying in on his balloon with his daemon Hester. You can read our review of His Dark Materials Episode 4, “Armour,” here. His Dark Materials & The Golden Compass Differences Episode 4 As is true of all scenes that don’t involve Lyra, the conversation between former lovers Serafina and Farder Coram is new. Witch Serafina Pekkala gets an early introduction in the TV series. In the books, Ma Costa does not travel north with the Gyptians and Lyra. Because, in the books, Billy escapes from Bolvangar, all of the scenes including Ma Costa singing to her son and the subsequent funeral are added.

Lyra finds a daemon-less Billy in the northern village and he dies soon after. It’s a quiet, meditative look into what Will’s life looks like, going to school and taking care of his mentally ill mother, before everything changes.Įlsewhere, the prediction that Billy Costa’s TV fate would be that of Tony Makarios’ from the book sadly came to fruition. There are a few actual changes from Will’s storyline from the books (he lives in Oxford instead of Winchester his mother gives him his father’s letters rather than him findhing them himself), mostly the details we get about Will’s pre- Subtle Knife life are not changes so much as additions. In “The Lost Boy”-a title which could refer to Will, Billy Costa, or both-we meet Will Parry, who is one of the main protagonists in The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, second only to Lyra. We knew that the His Dark Materials TV show was bringing in elements from The Subtle Knife early, most especially the reveal of Will’s World, but I wasn’t sure if Season 1 would introduce Will Parry himself.

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