The Authority: The City of Magpies

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🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The Authority, Slate’s deep dive into the world(s) of HBO’s His Dark Materials. Each week, Slate’s scholars of experimental theology Dan Kois and Laura Miller discuss the HBO series and Philip Pullman’s original trilogy. It’s a new season, and Lyra and Will aren’t the only people who’ve traveled to entirely different worlds. We all have since the show’s first season ended in 2019. Can Season 2 recapture the magic? We explore the season premiere, “The City of Magpies,” and discuss the architecture of Citàgazze, the growing friendship between Lyra and Will, and the secret powers of witches. Email: asktheauthority@slate.com Podcast production by Phil Surkis. Dan Kois on Twitter: @dankois Laura Miller on Twitter: @magiciansbook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The world's changing.
0:02.0	We've all sensed it.
0:05.0	The prophecy is clear.
0:08.0	Our duty is to protect the girl and boy wherever they are.
0:17.8	Something happening in his world.
0:20.3	People are going to be looking for us.
0:28.0	And I'm looking for a girl named Lyra. Welcome to the Authority, sl's His Dark Materials Podcast.
0:35.0	It's season two, episode one, the season premiere, The City of Magpies.
0:40.0	We're Slate's resident scholars of experimental theology.
0:42.0	I'm Dan Koes, I'm a writer at Slate and My We're Slate's resident scholars of experimental theology.
0:42.8	I'm Dan Koes, I'm a writer at Slate, and my demon is a prairie vole named Gilda.
0:47.8	I'm Laura Miller and I'm a columnist at Slate and my demon is a sea otter named Saki.
0:54.7	Welcome back, Laura.
0:55.9	Welcome back to you too, Dan.
0:57.4	Thanks.
0:58.2	So this season two premieres the chance for the show
1:00.4	to catch our attention again after a year away that honestly feels like it was more like a hundred years.
1:05.6	It feels like we're living seven worlds away from the world of season one here on our own lives.
1:11.0	Oh true. And pretty early on in this episode, we get a moment that is really crucial for fans of the books.
1:17.1	It's the meeting of Lyra and Will, our two main characters for this series.
1:21.5	Let's listen to what it sounds like.
1:23.0	Barris silverton. Is this your house?
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