Commodore’s Reviews > The Rose Field > Status Update

What do you store the destroyer of bonds in, asks the young woman who saw an appropriate sheath for a knife that could cut through anything, once.

Pan made a huge decision that was impulsive but not necessarily incorrect. He doesn’t want to be like these people at the station though; he doesn’t want to be an afterthought to Lyra, picked up “as if he were nothing but a handkerchief”. He left for good reasons but fundamentally DOES want to reunite. I’m gonna bite clean through the cover of this book jfc.

Pullman taking the jokey insult of “these people are not ensouled” and really thinking about what that would mean for dæmons in Lyra’s world… this is the complexity and subtleties the show *thought* it was conveying with Mrs. Coulter and her dæmon.

“He was beginning to feel that it had been cruel to leave her in the way that he did, and she might not find it easy to forgive him.” THIS IS THE JETTY ALL OVER AGAIN WITH THE ROLES REVERSED

“Swords? Good God, [Marcel], are you dreaming?” What a callback with a twist!!

“I was a child. I couldn’t argue with a being like her.” Lyra. Be so serious right now.

Oh, an understandable but *devastating* off-page character death.

I understand *thematically* what it would mean for Lyra to lose or give up the alethiometer, but if she doesn’t get that thing back by the end of the book I’m going to tear my copy in half like a strongman with a telephone book

Iorekova!!! 😭

Of course the PR flak has a chameleon dæmon lol