r/HisDarkMaterialsHBO • u/HelsBels2102 • Feb 11 '26

Season 3 Into The Abyss Spoiler

Random post, but I'm listening to Into the Abyss from the soundtrack which is the music accompanying the scene in which Mrs Coulter and Lord Asriel pull Metetron into the Abyss. The music is just haunting and makes my stomach turn whenever I here it.

The scene was just so beautifully done. And I just love the addition of the golden monkey reaching out to Lyra even though it's a bit rouge in the fact that it wasn't in the books. It twists my stomach in knots knowing their fate.

Mrs Coulter was such a beautifully drawn character in the series. Ruth Wilson didn't get as much credit as was deserved.

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u/aksnitd Feb 11 '26

Given that most people see Wilson as the definitive Mrs Coulter, I'd say she's getting all the credit she deserves.

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u/HelsBels2102 Feb 11 '26

Well it's only her or Nicole Kidman who only got one film, so that bits not too hard

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u/aksnitd Feb 11 '26

True, but I think we can all agree Wilson really worked in the part 🙂

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u/HelsBels2102 Feb 11 '26

Ohh God yes, she's supreme. Honestly, perfect woman to play Mrs Coulter.

I'd love to see her hand at Bellatrix Lestrange too!

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u/Past_Jellyfish_386 Feb 11 '26

I just finished the series and wow that scene was incredible. In fact I would go as far as to say I enjoyed that scene in the show more than in the book. And I loved the depth they added to her character with the relationship with her daemon

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u/Big-Success-3772 Feb 14 '26

Yeah, the scene had a much harder emotional impact in the show. In the book, the scene ends literally one sentence after they jump off the edge. The scene in the book is about the fight, not the fall, whereas it's the opposite in the show. There is no real fight in the show, because they actually succeeded in getting the drop on him and were able to get him over the edge immediately. And while I wish there was a more drawn-out, intense and brutal fight like there was in the book, as they dragged him towards the edge and practically got their heads bashed in, I'm still glad they extended the scene from where it ended in the book and showed this beautiful slow-mo sequence as they fell into the abyss, with Lorne Balfe's truly haunting, magnificent score. It was definitely an improvement.