John Parry Puns

I'm hoping they're going for the shock of him being killed totally out of nowhere without it being built up at all (or maybe they'll mention the affair in the next episode) it was pretty out of nowhere in the books too. So maybe a totally wft GOT style death is what they're going for.

Or do you think they'll kill him in a totally different way?

He didn't keep his promise to tell the knife bearer to keep Lyra safe, which he promised to the dying Lee Scoresby, he had no way of knowing that they already traveled together.

I don't remember the way it was in the novel, since I read it more than ten years ago, but it still made me pretty mad. He didn't even attempt to tell him before he died.

I've been puzzling over it for a bit. John's story is a genuinely interesting one largely untold in the novels. Extrapolating/adapting John's notes in the appendix of The Subtle Knife, I've cut the story into 5 sequences-

1. Searching for an anomaly in our arctic, a blizzard separates John and another from their research party. They stumble through a window to Cittigazze

2. John meets Paradisi, who tends to his wounds with bloodmoss. John’s companion is killed by a Spectre. Paradisi fends it off, cuts a window and shoves John through into Lyra’s world, half-dead

3. When John wakes he’s been saved by the Witches. HWe see the ceremony that manifests his Daemon. He t returns to the Window but it’s closed.

. 4. Years later, he delivers a controversial theological lecture at Oxford. The precursors of John’s illness are starting to show. After, he visits his home in this world (lining up a family photo)- passing a young Lyra playing with the Gyptians. A Magisterium agent followed him from Jordan and tries to apprehend John, but Asriel saves him.

5. They discuss the nature of Windows and Dust, the theocratic suppression of this world. They conspire, and Asriel convinces John (in despair after being confronted with the reality of never getting home) to continue the fight for Will’s future.

But aside from having John narrate these flashbacks to Lee, how would you incorporate them into the dramatic action of the season?

From the Comic-Con panel, around the 25 minute mark.

That's her being Andrew Scott's daemon!

I just finished the Amber Spyglass and I think I was so eager to finish the books that I missed some details.

After John Parry arrived in Lyra's world, he became a shaman and was able to do more things than an ordinary human; for example, his daemon could go farther away from him, he could see things and he could summon things. These last two things intrigue me. At the end of Northern Lights, Lord Asriel gets very emotional when he sees Lyra arrive, he says something like "I didn't call for you", and later it is revealed that he had the power to call for what he needed, in this case a child to power the window to another world. This power to call or summon is the same as we saw John Parry use to call on Lee, he needed someone who could fly him to the knife bearer, and Mr. Scoresby arrived. As far as I know they never mentioned how or why Lord Asriel had this same power, was he the same as Parry? Same question goes for Lee but with the seeing power, quite frankly I didn't understand how or why he was able to see the destruction of the zeppelins on Cittagazze, it was mentioned he had the sight or some seeing power that he never knew about until that moment. Are these some kind of powers latent in any human being and when you get exposed to more Dust or knowledge you can start to unlock them? I feel like I missed something big here.

>!So, John Parry is obviously from Will’s world and they don’t have daemons in that world. Somehow John Parry has an osprey daemon and I don’t recall this ever being explained. For Will to get Kirjava he has to separate from his “daemon” before entering the world of the dead. There was no way that John did that, and I don’t recall it ever being mentioned that a shaman just kinda gets one. Anybody have some insight on this!<

I just heard that there’s an edition of the trilogy which contain appendices written “by” these characters??? But I can’t find any information about which edition the appendices are in? Also, crap in between the versions I bought when I was 12, the omnibus editions, and the original iconic US first edition copies I just bought I’m en route to own four copies of this trilogy 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Y'all all saw Andrew Scott on the screen right???

I've been reading The Amber Spyglass out loud to my girlfriend because it helps her get to sleep at night. We just got to the bomb detonation part where John Parry's ghost has Will cut Lyra's hair where Mrs. Coulter had cut it and then put it into another world so they don't get blown to hell (hehe).

But who told John Parry about the bomb so he could warn Will and Lyra?