Hello and welcome to our His Dark Materials podcast. I'm your host

Ashley. I'm your co-host Alexis. And we are covering episode five of His

Dark Materials in season two. This one is called The scholar or the scholar for you American folks.

I don't know I don't know a group of people that first word was for

It was for the kind of you know the the UK folks who say

like micro wave instead of microwave oh what yeah exactly I just want to make sure I'm just, I'm, I'm, I'm,

I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, all, non-existent basis. Yes, Alexis,

episode five in second season.

What are your thoughts?

I think once again we are getting so many exciting things, more fights.

So many fights this season that I wasn't. exciting things, more fights.

So many fights this season that I wasn't expecting to see,

except I was, but actually no, no, no, no, that last fight I was not expecting.

Because I don't think it goes down that way in the book if memory serves.

What were, oh my God, what are your thoughts?

I'm, I texted you halfway through this episode and I was like I am so excited about this

episode. It's it's so much fun. I think this is my favorite one so far in any season. This is my favorite one so far in any season this is my favorite one so far because I

praise yeah there's a lot of like there's a lot of like high there's a lot of

high tension the sexual power plays between Mrs. Coulter and Boreal and

people are making plans and making moves and this just this one just had me engaged from start to finish and I can't

really say that about any other episode I was there for it. You were there for it. I bet you were like

in the the feminist stuff too. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Mary Malone and

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