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His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife, Chapter 6, Make Cittagazze Great Again

Welcome to chapter 6! We’re starting this week with a quick summary and diving into plot and themes (00:03:45). For our dust bears and dust bunnies, there’s a ton of differences in the worlds to go through as well—remember the Alamo? We have our alethiometer readings (00:42:13), and pick our Extra award recipients (00:45:11), and some great new songs for our Subtle Knife mixtape (00:47:39).

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Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

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His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife Ch 4-5, Cats

This week, we’re finishing up our chapter 4 analysis and moving on to chapter 5 of The Subtle Knife (00:04:17)We’re following Will and Lyra’s journeys and their approaches to the world, and we’re loving how these characters are coming to life. Also, in our themes discussion we note the way people treat animals in their respective worlds helps draw out the differences. We also have a canon conundrums moment (00:41:37), go over our alethiometer readings (00:44:04), and pick our Extra award recipients (00:47:24). Finally, you’re going to love the new songs Will added to our Subtle Knife mixtape (00:49:24).

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Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife Ch 4, Solving the Universe NBD

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We always say it’s a short and simple chapter, and then we start digging in and so much more appears to us! These books are just so good. We start with a discussion of the major plot developments and themes (00:04:26), alethiometer readings (01:00:57), the Extra award (01:03:58), and add to the Subtle Knife mixtape (01:05:32).

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His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife Ch 2/3: Ruta MF’ing Skadi

This week: Melissa and WIll finish chapter 2 and delve into all of chapter 3 of The Subtle Knife! (Have you not read these books? Read these books! Because we do spoilers.) After our main discussion, we bring you alethiometer readings (00:52:03), the Extra award (00:55:30), and a couple of songs for the new Subtle Knife mixtape (00:57:24), which is different than the Golden Compass one, so make sure you check it out!

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Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife Ch 2: A Cliff Ghast Is An Enemy Always

Since The Subtle Knife continues with a truly insane amount of plot, Melissa and Will have decided to take their time and split chapter two into two episodes. We’ll be doing quicker plot discussions and then getting into themes. We also have alethiometer readings, the Extra award, and a brand new mixtape for your listening pleasure. Dive into this amazing book with us!

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Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden // Audiobook clips (c) Penguin Random House

His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife Ch 1: Back to the Good Stuff

We’re jumping into The Subtle Knife this week, and we couldn’t be happier. The first chapter is jam-packed so we go through the strange new world we’re thrown into piece by piece (00:02:39). A LOT happens. Then, we get into the Extra Award (00:43:06) and our alethiometer readings (00:45:42). We can’t wait to see where Lyra and Will go from here!

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Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden

His Dark Materials: Cool Older Sister (w/ Joanna Robinson)

This week, we welcome podcast icon Joanna Robinson onto the podcast! We talk about how she came to the original book series, what she felt out the His Dark Materials tv show, and where we would want to see this show go in the future.

Our recap of the whole season of the show is coming soon. Then, in a couple of weeks, we’ll start our recaps of The Subtle Knife, so get reading if you want to follow along with us!

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Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden

 

 

His Dark Materials, S1 E8: To the End

With the first season of His Dark Materials over, we talk through the good, the bad, and the weird throughout this episode. Since it’s the end of the season, we also go over the best and worst bits of the season as a whole. Let us know your thoughts about the season as a whole!

In a few weeks, we’ll start our recaps of The Subtle Knife, so get reading if you want to follow along with us!

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His Dark Materials S1 E7: The Bear Place

We finally get to the fight between Iofur and Iorek, and we’re wondering why it was so underwhelming. There are some big revelations in this episode, but the mishandling of some key plot points is worrying. Join us to discuss season 1, episode 7 of His Dark Materials: The Fight to the Death.

This episode IS SPOILER SAFE. We will let you know before we go into spoilers so you can turn it off. If you are only watching the series, you’re fine to listen.

In this show: we go over every detail of the episode with our Dust Bears and Dust Bunnies. We also give out an Extra Award, perform our alethiometer readings!

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His Dark Materials, S1 E6: Daemonless

The Bolvangar episode has some great moments, but we are finding it really hard to justify some of the choices made when it comes to portraying the relationship to humans with their daemons. Come along with us as we discuss Season 1, Episode 6, of His Dark Materials: “The Daemon-Cages.”

This episode IS SPOILER SAFE. We will let you know before we go into spoilers so you can turn it off. If you are only watching the series, you’re fine to listen.

In this show: we depart from our normal format to do the Good and the Bad. We also give out an Extra Award and add two more songs to the mixtape!

This episode is sponsored by Shaker and Spoon. Have some merch! We have a whole new Jordan College shirt!

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Produced by Jaanelle Yee // hosts Melissa Anelli and William Redden