Poll of the Day > Anyone read/watch "His Dark Materials" here?

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I have seen the first 5 episodes of the BBC show with my mum.

Both of us are really liking it so far, she saw the Golden Compass movie and remembers bit and pieces while I have no prior experience with the franchise.

One thing I have been wondering about though is the nature of Daemons, are they fully unique and sentient, or is the story building up towards a tearjerking reveal like Tales of Xillia?

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I saw the movie, and I have the books, though I haven't gotten around to reading them yet. My reading list is literally about 1,000 books long right now.

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I watched the show, never read the books, and I heard the movie was pretty bad. I have no idea about your question.

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I read the books many years ago - I don't recall much about them / they weren't memorable to me.

I do remember reading the book before the movie to refresh my memory and being very disappointed in the movie.

As far as I can remember, they are their own entity. Truth is, I dont think they go into much depth of their existence.

They just kinda exist.

Though by the third book I was kinda checked out and I think some of it went right over my head.

I read and loved all the books in high school, and I thought the television show adaptation was pretty well-done and captures the feel and events of the book. Much better than the movie. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the series.

From what I remember daemons are for sure their on unique and sentient beings, with the caveat of being eternally tied to their human and thus their personalities largely complement their human counterpart.