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Show Name:his dark materials Season/Episode: 02 / 05 The Scholar Date Aired: Where Aired: HBO linktr.ee/ladiesattheroundtable Twitter @LadiesAtRt_Pod Patreon.com/LadiesAtTheRoundTable Instagram @ladiesattheroundtable Plot Summary in a sentence Boreal wants to impress, but Mrs. Coulter and Will use his treasures against him. Fuck the patrearchy  Almost everyone gets exactly what they deserve.  What’s your word? Buckle-up Promises Favorite character this episode? The Monkey  Coulter MONKEY…. So I guess Coulter’s soul?  Technical Talking Points (music, lighting, editing): The make-up on on Will’s face bruising The knife slicing is so cool. When the machine shuts down! Omg in the book she sets fire to everything and crushes a floppy disk hahaha way cooler in the book but also the cloud exists soooo of course you gotta change things Story Talking Points: Lyra and Will - planning to get the alethiometer When they run into angelica and paula seeing tulio zombi-fied… when you are in pain you gotta blame someone and it was kinda their fault and with no rules kids can go a little overboard (lord of the flies like) ha  Mrs. Coulter and Boreal - using each other, boreal’s use of the world for self rather than bettering their original world Found it interesting right in the beginning: appearance of freedom,culture of consumerism not faith.  There is a point where the music is playing and she says “can you make that stop?” I get that - sometimes I can’t think when background music is playing.  Was he trying to be smooth and like get with coulter here? Music in the bg he lays out on the couch and she is like shut it off not  interested haha They were talking about Dr Malone and how coulter (i want to start calling her dr cuz she so would have had a doctorate in this world haha) and boreal described her impertinent, intelligent, free vs. arrogant. And then boreal had the gall to tell her what to do in a “calm down you are hysterical…” type situation. This pissed me off oooooo i wanna punch him. She is trying to talk with him and explain the stupid shit she has had to deal with - she brings up her shit with asriel and boreal is like why we talking bout your ex ughhhhhh when she just wanted to talk about herself so even in her story the man is the main subject.  Mrs coulter + her daemon Her daemon is so scared and stressed when she leaves but coulter seems indifferent. (those shoulders on her blazer are so sharp) surely i’m not the first woman capable of self control - have you never encountered witches on your encounters” when talking to boreal.  HOW DOES SHE KNOW HOW TO DRIVE!!!!!!!?!?!’;ejfgf;ijikjvnd Also stupid side note… this monkey sounds like my dog when he grunts and stuff XD  Mrs Coulter and Mary Malone - women in general - ironic that the statement about “Dr.” happened in this episode when the news story about Dr. Jill Biden was a big story this week  Coulter, “mrs. malone” Dr. Malone, ”Dr.” she has no time for this bs she has studies to publish! “You must be so proud” and mrs coulter is kinda stunned  Dr. Malone asks where she got her doctorate and papers she has published and very interested in learning from her and she cant say because she wasn’t allowed to do any of that (stop cutting onions) Im more and more impressed with what coulter had to deal with during all this. Like how hard she had to work to be in the power she is in. “ Free (Malone) vs arrogant (Mrs. Coulter)  The scene with Mary googling Mrs. Coulter was sad for me. It hit home that if they had google in Lyra’s world she still wouldn’t have seen Mrs. Coulter’s name pop up on any research. Go into Maxx’s learnings about trans too  Lyra and her mother - Lyra becomes angry and retaliates (face just like her mothers when she attacked her over the purse) Mrs. Coulter’s self-control to stand while her monkey is being hurt.  Lyra doesn’t want to be like her mother she wants to be more like Ma costa (last season all about mimicking those she was around) Will says “you don’t have to be like any of them, you are great (not exact quote.)” Magisterium- short little scene, lease favorite guy used as scapegoat This was awesome! And scary Mary going into Chiticazi (spelling sucks) I am worried for her lol but I know she will be fine. 2-3 favorite moments in the show: Ya’ll, they buckled the monkey in!  THIS WAS SO CUTE!!!! I feel like Mrs. Coulter is finally angry for the right reasons. Coulter and boreals relationship is interesting… part of me is offput that she is kinda leading him on cuz she knows he is into her but putting on this fake act. also do what you gotta do to have power in a world that doesn’t allow women to get ahead/have any.  But knowing her im sure she has said she is not interested and he won’t stop so she can use it to her advantage? Maybe i am overthinking all of this.  This episode was very feminism-esque (i cant think of the right series of words) Coulter being confused how could a woman be a scholar the old white dudes sitting at a table “the men, and heaven help us, women(whispered), have been arrested” like the women are starting to think for themselves we fucked…? Coulter being so freaked by dr. malone and how she was able to publish papers but coulter can’t b/c patriarchy - she starts to think about what she could have done if she was born in this world.  Is this just performative saying there is this thing but not doing much about it? Also it is still hard for women to get ahead in this world (and even harder for black, indigineous, and women of color) they could have mentioned that it is still a shit show here? Have more women on the staff or even better to direct a show that is about strong female leads.  27 producers / ~ 9 female - 4 worked on 14-15 of the episodes in contrast to 9 Combined show # male : 182 shows # female : 99 I dunno what i was looking for here but i got distracted thanks adhd for making me look at numbers and then get more confused  OMG NOW I AM ON A DEEP DIVE OF HIS TWITTER At one point he was like “what side am i supposed to be on trans ppl or not…”!”!”! Uahdlfabhdldfugaldfju what and then he badly corrected his statement and im so confused.... Ok so respects JK Rowlings right to say whatever she wants but doesn’t support what she said. Doesn’t believe that there are only two sides and has thought about introducing a trans character into his books “it would be difficult, as it is difficult in our world” soooo that is something?    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.