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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
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. |
The movie and book explanations were the same. Strange example to pick.
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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
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
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The problem with the movie version is the Research Station is deliberately isolated. Spoiler:
She would not have found it if she'd been lost unless she'd been wandering for a while. The inattention of the station staff is not explored in the movie at all... making the blithe acceptance of this story of walking for hours in the cold seem unlikely. In the book Spoiler:
The Research Station pays a bounty for children, an ideal justification for the snow folks turning her in there. In the movie Spoiler:
they deliver her to the bears... no reason for this is even attempted.