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player8472 says...

5 years ago

As someone who hasn't read the book(s) I get the feeling, that there is information missing.

There are reactions in certain scenes where I don't understand what gets the characters so excited. They act like its obvious, while it isn't for the unknowing viewer.
I have the suspicion, that there is a section in the book explaining the reaction which wasn't translated in the show sometimes.

I don't know if its true, but are the daemons all female? If so, I hope it gets explained why that is (unless I missed it).

Aside from that, great cast, great storytelling and great characters so far - Although I somehow love Marisa best so far, cunning and evil - my kind of woman :)

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Reply by phfora

5 years ago

@player8472 As someone who did read the books, I also feel like there's something missing. I often tell myself that someone who hasn't read them would not _really_ understand parts of the show (like why are deamons so important). Also, deamons are not all female. Lyra's deamon for instance is a male.

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Reply by PsychoticKitten

5 years ago

@player8472 The part about the genders does get explained in the books, for example. "Usually" the daemon is the opposite gender than their human. However, there are 'peculiar' (as the book calls it) cases where they share a gender.

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Reply by player8472

5 years ago

@phfora Well, the Sex of Lyras daemon isn't discussed and I wasn't able to dig up who spoke her/him. But he/she definitely sounds female to me (although not easy to hear considering that its supposed to be a childs voice....). To me all the daemons which spoke at least sounded female. Thx for the clarification though, also thx to @psychotickitten

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Reply by Guenguer

5 years ago

@player8472 pan sounds female to you? That's weird.

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Reply by angelmnemosyne

5 years ago

@player8472 The daemon is the opposite gender of the human that it's attached to.

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Reply by player8472

5 years ago

@guenguer The voice, not the name.

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Reply by marvinolsob

5 years ago

@player8472 usually the daemons are of the opposite sex to the owners

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Reply by Gedeone de Paperone

5 years ago

@player8472 men’s daemons are female, women’s daemons are male

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Reply by KittHaven

5 years ago

@player8472 There are definitely things you need to read the books to understand, or get straight away. Daemons are usually the opposite gender to their human. Pan, Lyra's daemon, is actually a boy, and Salcilia, Roger's daemon, is female (Lord Asriel's is also female). However, it's explained in the book that rarely a daemon can be the same gender. One of the Gyptians in the show has a male bird daemon even though he is a man. It's not explained in so many words in the show but he also has a male daemon in the book. It isn't explicitly stated as to why, but I have always thought it might be something to do with sexuality. However I'm not really sure, and it could just be that some daemons are the same gender as their human for no apparent reason.

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Reply by agnesthehuman

5 years ago

@player8472 from what i've been told, the daemons are the "opposite" of their humans, in a way that together they reach a balance. so with gender is the same, a man gets a female daemon. pan is a male because lyra is a girl, etc. my friend who has read the book told me that there really are important information that are missing from the show, for example that marisa's daemon is a very rare one, and he is the only one that doesn't speak. i hope these things get better "translation" in the next season ;)

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