Without stories we wouldn't be human beings at all, wrote Philip Pullman, and with that in mind

your geek history lesson on his dark materials is now in session. Hello and welcome to Geek History Lesson I'm Jason some of my materials might be dark or they could be white

Inman welcome to your mind university because this is Geek History lesson the podcast where we talk

about one character one construct or one television show slash book and tell you everything

you need to know about it and a little bit less than an hour. And today's episode is about what, Ashley.

Today's episode is about his dark materials,

a book and a TV show.

More on that later.

An HBO slash BBC B. B.C. production.

Now, this is going to be a little bit different than a normal episode, correct?

Yes.

Okay, because we run into this a lot on this podcast where, you know, it's hard to talk about things that are very limited or finite because the advantage that Comboks gives you is that most of these characters have been around for 80 plus years and there's lots of different stories and lots of different iterations to talk about them and obviously with his dark materials that is not the case we only

have a certain number of books i know he has sequel books but we're only we're mainly focusing on

the mythology set up in the original trilogy in the first book as well yes uh... so how are we going to talk about all the materials

that are dark or otherwise so normally when people ask us do Indiana Jones do

Star Wars we say there's only three why don't you go watch them or why don't you go read them

remember if you cast your mind all the way back to the first year of G.H.L we did a

Hunger Games episode but we broke that we did because you made a joke

about I believe District 8 and the booths that they made.

Oh yes they made boots because they were forestry.

We didn't just tell you what happened in the Hunger Games books because that in our opinion

for what we want to do here is not what we wanted to do. Go read them you'll

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