tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490423121850998388.post2169628499685162737..comments2023-05-25T08:57:21.453-05:00Comments on The Liberal Reader: Asriel. Lord Asriel.Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17360212854272385905noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490423121850998388.post-78034764345331080392007-12-08T12:00:00.000-06:002007-12-08T12:00:00.000-06:00The problem with the bears, awesome though they ar...The problem with the bears, awesome though they are, is that the battle doesn't really advance the overall dust-daemon plot OR develop Iorek's character a whole lot. It works in the book. I suppose it helps to show how clever Lyra is, but we kind of had the idea already.Heidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17360212854272385905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1490423121850998388.post-30324706897205333862007-12-08T10:11:00.000-06:002007-12-08T10:11:00.000-06:00Well, it's never a good sign when i begin cooking ...Well, it's never a good sign when i begin cooking up alternate openings for films. but two that i have come up with so far:<BR/><BR/>1) An Adam and Eve-esque sequence where the "transgression" involves something to do with daemons<BR/><BR/>2) The scene, recounted somewhere in the books, where Asriel "rescues" baby Lyra from Coulter and Mr. Coulter.<BR/><BR/>3) Billy Costa and Roger abducted by the Gobblers.<BR/><BR/>I've also come to the conclusion--and a sad one it is--that the Polar Bear Kingdom episode should have been excised. They just kind of bungled it.<BR/><BR/>In its place, Weitz should have cooked up a scene that really pinned down what is now a half-baked series of relationship between innocence, experience, free will, falleness and so on. It wouldn't have to be religious per se.<BR/><BR/>Just a few thoughts...Brodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07805856990253310235noreply@blogger.com