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Adaptations can be for ownership there are adaptations that claim or reclaim characters and narratives.
This, sadly, is whats happened toHis Dark Materials.
The world Philip Pullman built for the originalHis Dark Materialsbook trilogy is full of complicated metaphysical and institutional structures.
The government is controlled by a shadowy religious institution called the Magisterium.
All of thats also the case for HBOs series.
Everything stays a mystery until theres a reason to care about knowing it.
The over-exposition has the counterintuitive impact of somehow making things even more confusing.
), but hes both magnetic and completely persuasive as the intrepid balloon-flying mercenary cowboy.
What its definitely for, if nothing else, is the sheer spectacle of Philip Pullmans universe.
That, at least, is wildly successful.
