further LWW revelations, or, one of these days I shall watch the movie from beginning to end

[bedlamsbard]

No, seriously: this time I started from when they all go through the wardrobe and ended it just after the coronation. I am, um, working through it backwards?

1. Gorilla. There is a gorilla in the Narnian army! Which we see in the White Witch comes to visit scene.

2. Dude. The lioness that Edmund draws on at the White Witch's castle? Still has the markings around her eyes and nose (or his; maybe it's a wildcat or something) at the coronation. EDMUND.

3. The fact that I have to work out a mental blueprint of Cair Paravel breaks my mind. Most of the castle is in the hill, maybe?

4. Can anyone tell me if Edmund's sword in LWW is the same sword he's carrying in PC? Because I don't remember.

5. Huh, it's Susan who takes the lead in following Aslan once he leaves her and Lucy behind.

6. Why does the White Witch have an upside-down dead bird on her shoulder during the execution scene? I mean, we've figured out she likes to wear the skins of the people she's killed (hello, Aslan ruff, and also the skins she was wearing earlier), but a bird?

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[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Susan and Lucy were much more "big sister, little sister" in LWW. By PC, you can see the changes and damage wrought by their experiences...still close, but not innocent kids any more. Differences appearing.

Cair Paravel might extrude more of itself whenever they need the room. Create, then, if "extrude" is too gross. *laughs*

If Aslan can regrow Reepicheep's tail, he can remove ink. If he wanted to.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're all much more obviously kids in LWW. (Because, well, they are.) And I think Susan's actually bossier in LWW than she is in PC.

Cair Paravel is already huge. But maybe rooms open themselves up...

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of Robin McKinley's "Beauty".

If you're not familiar with it, the castle moves rooms around so as to be conveniently located for whatever you need. You might go down the stairs and across the hall to get somewhere *now*; but next time you're in a hurry, it'll be right across the hall, say, so you won't have to walk so far.The castle grounds do the same, too, so you can have a nice long horse ride *out*, and a short one back, when you're tired. And the library has every book in it that ever was or will be written. *swoons* I WANT THAT LIBRARY!!!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I love that book. I really need to buy a copy of it.

*thoughtful* I wonder if Cair Paravel is like that? It could very well be so...on the other hand, I already established secret passageways. *thinking*

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Well...what if there's a certain number of secret passageways, but they don't always stay in the same place? Say you need to get from the throne room to the garden maze-and tunnel A opens for you. But another time, you need to get from the throne room to the garden maze and a set of stairs leading *up* presents itself...and the maze is *down* from there. Weird!

The logistics could make you crazy. You just have to trust that Cair Paravel knows what it's doing and that it won't hurt you.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Which begs the question of how assassins ever make it through the halls to the royal bedchambers, of course. Unless Cair Paravel is stationary for everyone but the Pevensies...

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

I forgot to add-I see it as part of Susan's gradual distancing herself from everyone. She's braced for disappointment, knowing they won't stay in Narnia ("while it lasts", she says); she spends time sitting alone on the way to school, and though still protective of Lucy to some degree, she mostly ignores Edmund in the movie (damn scriptwriters!) and fails to support Peter most of the time. She's there physically, but not really there in heart.

I didn't think she was all that attracted to Caspian himself, but to the idea that she was back in her home, with all that came with it...that kind of attention was a big part of her life, during their reign. After being changed from a capable, adult woman back to a teenager again, it must have been frustrating in just as annoying, though different, ways as it was for Peter (and the others).

*muses some more*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Right. I think Susan finally let go of Narnia right before they went back in PC, so being back was a painful experience for a couple of reasons. She'd already let it go, and now she's dragged back into this mess...and Narnia was in some ways wonderful and in some ways horrible.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Right. And not being as strongly bound to *something*-whether it be the land itself, to Peter, or to Aslan, like the others were, she's at a bit of a loss for direction. They're not needed past this crisis, so it's no use being too happy there.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Of course, while she's there, she may as well flirt a bit. I mean, some things won't change from Narnia to England. And besides, she just wants to get laid.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

The movie still doesn't demonize Susan the way the book does, and I say hurrah for that.

Poor Susan.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Thank God. I don't know who's worse, the Susan-hating fans or Lewis himself...

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

Edmund still has the same sword in PC. Neat fact about it. They designed it to have a lanturn-like thing as the hilt of it.

I actually really started to notice the armor and swords after I got the book "The Crafting of Narnia." The absolute best source for everything weapon, animal (like there are 2 types of satyrs, good and bad), and set related.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I was wondering. (I mean, if he hadn't, I could have come up with a cool story, but, you know, consistency, unlike Susan's arrows.)

*checks book on Amazon* Oh, man, that looks awesome. I've got the LotR equivalent, "Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare", which describes every. single. piece of weaponry, armor, and weapons in exhaustive detail exactly as if it was a historical reference. (Which I absolutely LOVE; they're all, "Various records differ on whether Legolas had brown hair and green eyes or blond hair and blue eyes.")