I've read all the books and seen The Golden Compass quite a few times, but this definitely surpasses the film. The young actress playing Lyra was so good - absolutely perfect for the part. The actress playing Mrs Coulter was far better than Nicole Kidman's Mrs Coulter. James McAvoy was well cast too. I am looking forward to the other episodes and hope that they can keep up the high standard set by this first one. Incidentally my son who is not a reader, after seeing the film said it was the first time he felt like reading the books. The animation of the daemons was well done. I will be interested to see how they cope with the creatures mentioned in Book 2 as I believe another season has already been commissioned. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Review of His Dark Materials
