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Quote by: shawmutt I think that, like the book, there will be a few levels of comprehension available. The "aw cool check out the armored bear" and the religious message of the book. I'll have to read it again, but it didn't seem to me to be overly vindictive of God--it's fiction. I think his expressed personal views of religion has some folks up in arms more than the actual book--it's just fiction folks. Did I mention that, like the Davinci Code, it's fiction? I will definitely be going to see the film, but I reserve judgement--something was "off" in the previews, there was a part in there that wasn't supposed to happen until the second book. And they botched up the review, by the way. Lyra starts off with a daemon (which is a different word than demon), she doesn't travel to an alternate reality with "demons".

It's a kids' story, and that's the big thing. Da Vinci Code was cosmology parading as fiction, but that's a point for another thread.

Maybe they changed that in the movie. But she's not supposed to make it to another reality until the end of the first book. And you're right, she does start off with Pan, who is her "soul".