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Originally Posted by denphone
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The missing episode was to be an excursus into the backstory of Lord Asriel. It does not seem to have been an integral part of the retelling of The Subtle Knife, which is Pullman’s 2nd HDM book and which is the basis for season 2 of the tv series. It looks like they exhausted the book’s material after 7 episodes and planned an eighth just to fill the schedule. I suspect they will only feel motivated to revisit it later if a significant amount of production was already complete, and if any of the future seasons come up short.