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Originally Posted by 1010011010
The book has a well constructed chain of cause and effect. There aren't too many contrived events or stupid coincidences invoked to advance the plot. The movie is basically nothing but an endless series of inexplicable occurrences to set up the next cinematic fight scene. While I'm saddened this the lack of subtlety isn't jarring to people who haven't read the books, I am pleased that most have expressed interest in reading them.
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Wait, what?
You find the books method of hooking Lyra up with the Costas... Spoiler:
OMG slavers have captured me...hurray, inexplicably I am saved by some people that I knew, one of whom was my nursemaid, who just happened to be in the area for totally unrelated reasons less coincidental than the movies version, where Spoiler:
at least the costas were 'watching over her', as dumb as that sounded in the movie
Also I have issues claiming the book relies less on deus ex machina based on how the book treated Lyra's second capture Spoiler:
where the party of gyptians was ambushed in the snow, Lyra was randomly kidnapped, and the kidnappers, wth no knowledge of who she was, deliver her to exactly where she wants to go versus the movie version of Spoiler:
her deliberately wandering in and then pretending to have gotten lost in the storm
However, I do agree. Glowball tech for the MFing lose.