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His Dark Materials

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Nellers Nov 2019 3:21pm, 11 Nov 2019 35,187 posts	0 Nellers This might be explained later but I'm assuming the alternative reality that this is all taking place in is an alternate 1950s?
Cerrertonia Nov 2019 3:24pm, 11 Nov 2019 11,386 posts	0 Cerrertonia Not really Nellers. Without giving too much away, large parts of the trilogy happen in very different alternative realities.
Too Much Water Nov 2019 3:29pm, 11 Nov 2019 6,883 posts	0 Too Much Water I’ve always viewed the books as a steampunk buffet, things from the 30s eg airships, but no cars, radios, televisions, with a lot of stuff which feels like it’s from the Middle Ages / dark ages. Best not to try and place something fictional within narrow parameters. I say this as someone who doesn’t like any fantasy except HDM.
Cerrertonia Nov 2019 3:43pm, 11 Nov 2019 11,387 posts	0 Cerrertonia I do like fantasy, but I'd put HDM in a different category. I think they're the finest books for children ever written. Not everyone agrees, of course.
larkim Nov 2019 4:00pm, 11 Nov 2019 9,446 posts	0 larkim Nellers - when you see Ep2 you'll see a mobile phone and a modern Oxford. Broadly our world, but not necessarily.
larkim Nov 2019 4:02pm, 11 Nov 2019 9,447 posts	0 larkim I must admit I really like the Lyra world, as you say TMW a bit steampunk. PP's terms for analogous things (anbaric = electric, gyptians = travelling folk / gypsies, etc) are really well chosen to be understandable immediately by a reader in "our" world. Gives a real sense of the world being just a glimpse away from ours.
Too Much Water Nov 2019 4:11pm, 11 Nov 2019 6,884 posts	0 Too Much Water I thought the other Oxford we saw in episode 2 was definitely “our” world. The Oxford we see in episode 1 is another Oxford, the same geography but a different time and space / dimension
Cerrertonia Nov 2019 4:13pm, 11 Nov 2019 11,388 posts	0 Cerrertonia Will's world is our world, I always thought.
larkim Nov 2019 4:31pm, 11 Nov 2019 9,448 posts	0 larkim I'd always thought Will's world was still not quite our world - practically the same, but with research into dark matter that can communicate, and working alethiometers I didn't assume it was precisely our world. Not that it really makes any difference I don't think. But then I suppose I'm reading all of the books as fantasy books, so the whole universe isn't "our world", in the same way that any science fiction set in the current time isn't "our world" as we don't have teleporters etc etc
Eynsham Red Nov 2019 6:07pm, 11 Nov 2019 4,908 posts	0 Eynsham Red Is Will’s world anything like Wayne’s world? 😀 (Hangs head in shame and slopes off 🙁)