Welcome back to Meta Station, where IT’S TIME TO CRY ABOUT MOMS! Lyra finally finds a family, we learn a lot more about daemons, some Dramatic Backstory is revealed, a show finally presents a suicide storyline responsibly, and we have a LOT of thoughts about white male patriarchy. Also, the alethiometer finally works, Ma Costa is our new favorite character, and Fleabag’s Hot Priest has joined the cast which means this show officially has everything.
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0:00 - Thank Goodness for the Gyptians, Adults Lyra Can Actually Trust
0:17 – How This Episode Gets Suicide-As-Plot/Character-Development Right
0:37 – Daemon Discussion Redux: Farder Coram Edition
0:41 – Lyra's Journey to Trust, Belonging, and a Working Alethiometer
0:53 – [Sidebar to Cry About Lyra and Ma Costa, the Ur-Mom]
1:11 – The Gyptians, the Magisterium, and the Value of Children
1:19 – Smash the Patriarchy, Part I: Who’s Outside the Machinery of Power, and Why It Matters That Boreal and the Master Are Black Men
1:33 – Smash the Patriarchy, Part II: Male Shame, the Complicity of White Women, and the Show’s Refreshing Decision Not to Woobify Mrs. Coulter
1:56 – No New Episode Next Week for Gay Reasons, But We’ll Be Back After American Thanksgiving!
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Welcome back to Meta Station, where IT’S TIME TO CRY ABOUT MOMS! Lyra finally finds a family, we learn a lot more about daemons, some Dramatic Backstory is revealed, a show finally presents a suicide storyline responsibly, and we have a LOT of thoughts about white male patriarchy. Also, the alethiometer finally works, Ma Costa is our new favorite character, and Fleabag’s Hot Priest has joined the cast which means this show officially has everything.
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0:00 - Thank Goodness for the Gyptians, Adults Lyra Can Actually Trust
0:17 – How This Episode Gets Suicide-As-Plot/Character-Development Right
0:37 – Daemon Discussion Redux: Farder Coram Edition
0:41 – Lyra's Journey to Trust, Belonging, and a Working Alethiometer
0:53 – [Sidebar to Cry About Lyra and Ma Costa, the Ur-Mom]
1:11 – The Gyptians, the Magisterium, and the Value of Children
1:19 – Smash the Patriarchy, Part I: Who’s Outside the Machinery of Power, and Why It Matters That Boreal and the Master Are Black Men
1:33 – Smash the Patriarchy, Part II: Male Shame, the Complicity of White Women, and the Show’s Refreshing Decision Not to Woobify Mrs. Coulter
1:56 – No New Episode Next Week for Gay Reasons, But We’ll Be Back After American Thanksgiving!
Welcome to Meta Station’s first recap of “His Dark Materials,” the perfect show for a podcast hosted by an atheist English professor and a Catholic playwright. Join us for a deep dive into the transformation of the books from page to screen, with side quests into climate change, Vatican II, “Paradise Lost,” gender fluidity, and Galileo. Plus, we lay out a careful plan about avoiding spoilers and then forget it immediately, of COURSE Erin knows the Milton quote Philip Pullman got the series title from, and Claire hops in the wayback machine to reminisce about being a youth minister when these books first blew up in the U.S.
Grab your alethiometer and your bottle of secret crypt wine, we’re going on an adventure!
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0:00 – Hello, New Listeners, and Welcome Back, Old Friends!
0:02 – Page to Screen Adaptation, Part I: Asriel, Lyra and Narrative Perspective
0:21 – We Stan a Relatable 11-Year-Old Who Is Sometimes a Butthead
0:27 – Page to Screen Adaptation, Part II: Dramatic Irony, Pacing Big Reveals for Television, and How Ruth Wilson Almost Convinced Us, Too
0:44 – The Gyptian Daemon Ceremony: Our Need for Ritual, the Magisterium’s Dehumanization of Religion, and the Return of Claire’s Catholicism Corner
1:10 – Pan-Daemonium
1:34 – Galileo, Climate Change, and Dust: The Politics of Scientific Knowledge
1:55 – The Magisterium, the Master, and the Moral Bankruptcy of Incentivizing Ignorance
2:02 – Erin Rambles On About Miltonian Cosmology, and All Is Right With Meta Station
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Welcome back to Meta Station, where IT’S TIME TO CRY ABOUT MOMS! Lyra finally finds a family, we learn a lot more about daemons, some Dramatic Backstory is revealed, a show finally presents a suicide storyline responsibly, and we have a LOT of thoughts about white male patriarchy. Also, the alethiometer finally works, Ma Costa is our new favorite character, and Fleabag’s Hot Priest has joined the cast which means this show officially has everything.
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0:00 - Thank Goodness for the Gyptians, Adults Lyra Can Actually Trust
0:17 – How This Episode Gets Suicide-As-Plot/Character-Development Right
0:37 – Daemon Discussion Redux: Farder Coram Edition
0:41 – Lyra's Journey to Trust, Belonging, and a Working Alethiometer
0:53 – [Sidebar to Cry About Lyra and Ma Costa, the Ur-Mom]
1:11 – The Gyptians, the Magisterium, and the Value of Children
1:19 – Smash the Patriarchy, Part I: Who’s Outside the Machinery of Power, and Why It Matters That Boreal and the Master Are Black Men
1:33 – Smash the Patriarchy, Part II: Male Shame, the Complicity of White Women, and the Show’s Refreshing Decision Not to Woobify Mrs. Coulter
1:56 – No New Episode Next Week for Gay Reasons, But We’ll Be Back After American Thanksgiving!
