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Warning: contains major plot spoilers for His Dark Materials season one. His Dark Materials had so much world-building to do in season one that it took a little while to get moving. Once off the ground though, the BBC/HBO fantasy soared. By the time the story had landed in the Far North, a place of armoured bears, cruel scientific research facilities and windows to other worlds, the adaptation had captured the scope and excitement of Philip Pullman’s books. Before then, the foundations were being carefully laid to explain the nature of a world “both like and unlike our own” and to…