The new adaptation of Philip Pullman's trilogy is the sort of lavish production you can expect from BBC and HBO. It looks as if no expense was spared.
Except... there's not enough daemons.
In Pullman's world, every person has his own companion animal. That means every character, every bit player, every extra. It's essential to the story and it will become even more essential as the story progresses.
Here, it seems only the major characters are allowed daemons, which is distracting to those people who know the books and confusing to those who are new to this world.
It's strange, because there are shots where there's some space left open for the daemons, but it seems like they they forgot to key them in.
It's probably a budget thing, but it's going to cost them in the long run.
Review of His Dark Materials
