I gotta say, if the message Lindelof thinks we ought to take away from his Watchmen is that we need heroes to rise up and take on the insidious threat of white supremacy, he’s got a very different understanding of what it means to remain faithful to the spirit of the original graphic novel than I do.

I just want to point something out here: Think of any other prestige show you like - by the penultimate episode, we more or less know what’s going to happen, or at least we have a pretty decent idea of it. Even on shows like Breaking Bad, the Sopranos, the Wire etc (and that’s not a knock against those shows).

Imagine still saying "Bernie Bros" in 2019, lmao.

Yes it’s episodic, so is The Crown. But The crown has something to say to his audience.

Now that we’re talking about the Mandalorian’s moral compass, with him first sparing the Republic jailer and then finding out he didn’t kill any of the mercenaries, can we talk about the way he murdered all those Jawas in the second episode in a strategy that was both overly brutal and ridiculously poor strategy?

I consider this situation to be AVClub writing its own obituary.

Few things would tickle me more than having this go tits up before it even gets off the ground.

Yes! I do wish that The Golden Comapss had gotten a director’s cut release or at least that the missing scenes - being that they were 90% complete with VFX and everything - had been included on the DVD release, because I do think there’s a good adaptation in there. Most of what tipped TGC into being firmly in the…

I very much appreciated the show portraying the guy who feels kind of bad about ripping kids’ souls away, but not enough to actually do anything about it, as not deserving a shred of mercy because of that. Nope, just a neck snap for you.

This part of the books is so straightforward, it should be easy to adapt. The movie actually did a great job, and I even forgave them skipping the freeing of the daemons. The show … I don’t know what the hell Jack Thorne is doing. It was so hard to feel any impact for what was about to happen to Lyra when we…

Again I’m laying the blame squarely on producer Jane Tranter’s shoulders, who seems not to ever have read the source material nor even seen the previous movie.

I think knowing about the human-daemon bond, specifically, changes the perspective. It’s the most unique element of Pullman’s creation, and if you go read the newbies’ forum, a lot of people didn’t get that specificity at all. They received it as these are sort of companion spirits, like a witch’s familiar, or a…

I agree 100% - Pan was such an important character throughout the books and in this arc in particular I felt he was completely missing. He wasn’t whining like an arctic fox, he was actively pushing Lyra away from the fish hut and imploring her - in words - not to go in there. And then when she realizes what has…

The mean part of me wants to say, ‘well it doesn’t work WITHOUT the fish either!’

I think weaving in Will’s story earlier is a good idea, and may avoid some of the sidelining that happened to Lyra in The Subtle Knife.

Damn, TV standards are harsh. Ruth Wilson isn’t drop dead gorgeous but in the real world, she’d be one of the more attractive people in any given room.

I’ve been reading your recaps since the show aired and it’s funny as normally you have been harsher on the episodes than I have but I think this is the first one where I seem to have been more disappointed by the episode. The discovery of Billy did not land for me at all, which makes me quite nervous for the rest of…

I started screaming to my boyfriend about how annoying it is that Ma Costa notices Ratter us gone but I have NO IDEA what Ma’s deamon is. Because they never show him. Does anyone remember what form her deamon had in the books?

I still think the decision not to save the introduction of our world for the end of the finale was a huge mistake.

Quite! I mean Lyra DOES spin some wild tales in the book/s. But really she’s a liar, not a storyteller. She knows when to keep her lies believable (when the stakes are high etc) and when she can go a bit nuts (talking to other kids who she’s more interested in impressing than wholly convincing, e.g. spinning tales of…