How cliche/cringe the characters and stories turned, in particular Lyra’s love subplot, Lyra’s mother storyline, plus somehow getting God mixed in just to make some kind of “social commentary” which IMO felt cringe and broke my suspension of disbelief as I was reading ( and I’m an atheist btw ). All in all it was good starting concept, the world looked promising but the story was lame. And I didn’t like those weird wheel aliens. Biologically their description made no sense, and their storyline was so boring.

The only cool character in the series was the bear.