Chronicles of Narnia - POLL

Interesting: https://www.tor.com/2021/05/12/the-problems-of-susan/

Not totally sure about the fanfic, but I do appreciate the wider delve.

all critical activity is fanfic

Where is your Middle-earth novel

it's behind you

*ducks*

I just

Lol

Just finished Prince Caspian. It was interesting in that for 60% of the book it was just the four kids (& one dwarf) walking for ages and getting lost. By interesting I mean dull. Why didn't they trust Lucy when she saw she said Aslan? I mean people being irrational and wasting time doing nothing is at least realistic, so let's credit Jack for that at least. The action sequences are quite harsh, lots of death, but all seem to be crammed into a few chapters. And after getting to know Prince Caspian we basically just abandon him until he puts in a couple of cameos at the end. Easily the worst so far I'm afraid.

Why didn't they trust Lucy when she saw she said Aslan?

Why would they? They're out of practice, only one visit.

The next book is much better.

I do kind of appreciate that, despite all of their experiences, Peter and Susan are already growing up to be pompous English prigs, because of course they are. Typical British colonialists.

lucy is very tiresome! she is a suck-up and i hate her!

(she does have a good extended scene in the next book -- if it's dawn treader -- but it's the scene that's good not her)

aslan is being such a dick in the lost-in-the-woods section

isn't Scrubb the suck-up?

scrubb constantly says they're all mad idiots who are trying to kill him!

he is not aslan-pilled

I’m at the beginning stages of a fiction thing and have already introduced a character named “Aslan”.

Also, still don't know why anyone is supposed to give a fuck about the Bulgy Bears, or what they are doing in this book.

lol you're cranky

One of the Bulgy Bears sticks his paw in his mouth in the lists, greatly offending Peter. That's the only purpose they serve.

i mean they are definitely another dreary digression in an overlong book but they are there to be the talking bears which DON'T eat children bcz "old narnia" is nice (twee) but can also front some troops which might give the telmarines pause once nikabrik's alternative is decisively squashed ("light the blue fire!" = best scene)

blue fires are pretty

I love fantasy books where people walk for ages (and maybe get lost). The best bits of Lord of the Rings are them walking.

CS introduces them like "here are some great new comic characters, lads you're going to love their hilarious antics" and then in several mentions it's just a paw in a mouth, which to be perfectly frank is not going to make much difference to people who have never encountered a talking bear before.

xp lots of my favourite things scenes in things are nothing happening on the surface, but all the time we're finding out about the characters. this is not the case here, everyone just acts like pricks.

like britishes

to be perfectly frank is not going to make much difference to people who have never encountered a talking bear before.

the last bear I talked to had hella attitude and wouldn't even bottom idk

a lot of it is wild shit given this guy is meant to be some kind of xtian: like unleashing bacchus and silenus and getting them to coax schoolgirls into taking half their clothes off

now that's the part of the novel where things get unwieldy

yeah the tree orgies were odd

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Prince Caspian is better than the Silver Chair, which is irritating and not very good

tbf Tom Baker is in The Silver Chair. Probably not in the book though.

Prince Caspian is better than the Silver Chair, which is irritating and not very good

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), T

respectowiggle

i really like silver chair: puddleglum is a good character to have in a kid's book i think

anything would be a letdown after Dawn Treader though

dawn treader has too much aslan in it

courage, dear heart

the Emerald Witch plucking at her koto surrounded by clouds of incense = so metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh55SzhLkmc

hoping there’s a metal band called bism

also mudfilth

I love fantasy books where people walk for ages (and maybe get lost). The best bits of Lord of the Rings are them walking.

Prince Caspian is better than the Silver Chair, which is irritating and not very good

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), T

respectowiggle

This is 90% of why Fellowship is the best. It’s basically a travelogue of a long walk without a ton of other plot going on.

― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante),

*cough* The Silver Chair: the trek through Ettinsmoor, etc.

in the silver chair it bothered me all out of proportion that scrubb didn't get to say hi to the elderly caspian

also: repectabiggle

amidst all the bad takes in this revive, and they're not few, the idea that fotr lacks plot is a real doozy

we have a good thread where we do in fairness surmise that it is a book about walking in the main so points for that

mark otm about why not listen to lucy, the portrayal of the character in the british tv tltwatw in the nineties was shockingly annoying and very accurate

we just finished the horse and his boy. Aslan saved the boy so the Aslantians would win the war years later. Main kid(s) always become rich at the end, in one world or another.

the bolt of Tash falls from above

― mookieproof, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 9:56 PM (twelve years ago)

the bolt of tash falls from above

― mookieproof, Wednesday, February 1, 2023 3:56 AM (eight months ago)

sorry for duplication, but i just wanted to point out that i was otm