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Feb. 17th, 2010 11:45 amFact: no matter how awesome a "yay women!" multifandom vid is, it will always lose me the moment it features clips from Narnia that include Lucy and Jadis but never Susan (or Prunaprismia, for that matter).
And -- I've seen a lot of multifandom yay women vids, and the majority of them leave out Susan and feature both Lucy and Jadis. I have a theory about this that revolves around most multifandom vidders not being active in movieverse Narnia fandom and whose main impressions of Narnia were formed from the books, which do feature Lucy prominently as a character, and thus when they're vidding they're vidding bookverse with movieverse clips; they belong to that school that believes in Lucy as one of the main characters in the series, the one that most people are supposed to identify with, and Susan as the character that we, the reader, are all supposed to despise because she is "no longer a friend of Narnia" -- she lost faith, she lost her sense of childhood wonder, etc. And so, when they're picking clips for their vids, they ignore Susan completely and will put in two clips of Lucy instead of one clip of Lucy and one clip of Susan, and then a couple of clips of Jadis just for kicks, because kickass women are awesome, right? Except for that one who represents everything that fantasy readers are not supposed to be.
(That said, I hope that when/if they do SC, we do get a "yay women in Narnia!" vid featuring Lucy, Susan, Jadis, Jill, the Lady of the Green Kirtle, Ramandu's Daughter, and Prunaprismia. Because that would be fabulous.
And -- I've seen a lot of multifandom yay women vids, and the majority of them leave out Susan and feature both Lucy and Jadis. I have a theory about this that revolves around most multifandom vidders not being active in movieverse Narnia fandom and whose main impressions of Narnia were formed from the books, which do feature Lucy prominently as a character, and thus when they're vidding they're vidding bookverse with movieverse clips; they belong to that school that believes in Lucy as one of the main characters in the series, the one that most people are supposed to identify with, and Susan as the character that we, the reader, are all supposed to despise because she is "no longer a friend of Narnia" -- she lost faith, she lost her sense of childhood wonder, etc. And so, when they're picking clips for their vids, they ignore Susan completely and will put in two clips of Lucy instead of one clip of Lucy and one clip of Susan, and then a couple of clips of Jadis just for kicks, because kickass women are awesome, right? Except for that one who represents everything that fantasy readers are not supposed to be.
(That said, I hope that when/if they do SC, we do get a "yay women in Narnia!" vid featuring Lucy, Susan, Jadis, Jill, the Lady of the Green Kirtle, Ramandu's Daughter, and Prunaprismia. Because that would be fabulous.