lww, v.3.0, in which I finally watch the beginning, no, *really*

[bedlamsbard]

And by the beginning, I mean the first twenty minutes or so, at which point I got to the part hwere I'd watched the middle and stopped. But! A few reactions.

1. I love the beginning of that movie so, so much, because it's such a great contrast. Britain at war! Narnia at war!

2. Man, the Pevensies' mother must be so confused when her kids come home and they're all calm and grown up -- except for Peter, of course, who's gone completely insane and no longer listens to her at all.

3. Peter is such a big brother. I want one.

4. On the train, Peter is reading Biggles Goes to War. Yes, I googled it. Yes, I am that much of a geek. Here's the Wikipedia article, which explains more. Biggles is a "fictional pilot and adventurer" -- very British, in other words. Also, pilot. Oh, Peter. Suddenly I feel a whole lot more love for little LWW Peter, because I have the feeling that post-LWW he looked at all his books and went, "What the hell is this shit? The world isn't like this," and threw them out.

5. Peter watching the soldiers! Oh, Peter. (Yes, occasionally I notice the other characters too. This is not one of those times.)

6. *squints* I have the feeling that Tumnus has never seen summer, that what he says in LWW is just him going, "Well, I heard it was awesome," because if he doesn't, then he's over a hundred. Which is obviously not impossible, but...I like him if he's never seen summer!

7. Wow, those Narnians are civilized, especially compared to what we see in PC. I think they regressed in technology over thirteen hundred years.

8. I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH. Narnia. How did you manage to pull off what HP failed at and LotR did with twenty million more hours of footage? *hearts*

Comments

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

It is. It is. I have no idea how they did that in a big-budget movie or how they found people in Hollywood that think like that, but OH MY GOD THEY DID.

They're not going to make all seven books, I think, because HHB and Magician's Nephew aren't all that, well...interesting, and there's not as much as a connection. But we need Susan and Peter cameos! Heck, at least mention them.

(You know what hurts about Susan in England? That everyone's all, "Oh, Susan's not that smart, she's just pretty," and compared to Susan in Narnia...my God, people.)

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

MY GOD the extent to which I will snap up whatever cameos/mention they get and ficcing aaaaaalllllllllll about it, replete with inappropriate implications.

Susan will be smart enough to use her pretty. She knows these status games well!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, yes.

It just hurts, though, because she's so disregarded, and I think there's a point where she actually starts to believe it, and my god, Narnia is a tragedy in seven acts, what the hell, Lewis?

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I see it, her starting to buy into it. Like, when she remembers being queen wrong, for example, or how she hates that she cries more easily these days (combination of hormones and 'wtf why am i not an adult queen anymore'). STAND STRONG, SUSAN.

I've been thinking lately about how Susan is to CS Lewis what Draco and/or Snape are (...were?) to JK Rowling. Or maybe Slytherins in general, to JK Rowling. These are the characters the readers aren't really supposed to like or support or sympathize with, but fandom LOVES THEM and is all about explaining them and redeeming them (though not in the fics you read, it sounds like). All Susan needs is a PAIR OF LEATHER PANTS.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I can do that! Hi, great, now I want to write Susan in leather pants.

I totally read pro-Draco and pro-Snape fics, though I don't read much HP any more.

Oh, Susan. *heartbreak*

[saturns-hikari.livejournal.com]

Susan is to CS Lewis what Draco and/or Snape are (...were?) to JK Rowling.

YES!

(I really need to stop reading these comments because my brain's going YES! YES! and then it's going to explode)

That's very true! Though, maybe because of the difference in fandoms, there seems to be a greater number of *good* redemable Susan fics that keep all of the other characters mostly IC, as opposed to HP fandom which has so many great Draco/Snape fics but so so many *horrible* ones.
And *any* character in leather pants authomatically makes them awesome!

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

Explaining Susan is one of my favorite Narnia pastimes.

What do you say, would you also think that if Susan had been a boy, then she would be instant woobie?

[saturns-hikari.livejournal.com]

ABSOLUTELY!!
All that sensiblity and seriousness disguises a kind and gentle interior!

As it is, especailly with PC being the movie that it was, there isn't a girl fan out that isn't like: "Queen? Kickass? Surronded by hot men all the time? Sign me up- I want to *be* Susan!" and then gets really pissed when they find out Lewis's fate for Susan.

thought that just occured to me: Susan as a Mary Sue?

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

GOOD. (Me too.) First, one must establish why she is wearing leather pants. I postulate this is probably because she is FIGHTING CRIME. Possibly she wields a whip, and wears a cloak. But I am open to other interpretations.

Ya, same. I barely read any fic outside of Narnia. I've never been so tunnel-vision with a fandom. I'm not sure I've written this many fics in a row that were all in one fandom before.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Or she is IN DISGUISE. She must also be wearing a floofy white shirt and possibly a hat. And have a rapier! Possibly she should be on an island.

Ha, I'm the opposite -- I'm not reading anything in Narnia right now, because I have such a fixed view of the characters that nearly everything seems out of character.

I think I wrote more wordcount-wise for CSI:NY (at one point I was keeping all my CSI:NY fic in one Word document. No, do not ask), but that was three novel-lengths in a row. (And then my brain died and I went horribly AU and also, we will not go there.) But I've written more fics for Narnia than I have for any of my other fandoms put together.

I am kind of scared to do a wordcount on all my Narnia fic, though.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

Either way she wears awesome high-heeled boots.

My 'chronicles of narnia' tag is bigger than any any other tag on my LJ. This is partly because I've been reccing Narnia fics more than I have recced anything in previous fandoms. NARNIA: will I have time for you in the near future?!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

YES. Hmm. Possibly we have made Susan into a pirate, or maybe just an adventurer type.

NARNIA: will I have time for you in the near future?!

*whimpers* I know the feeling.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

Dominatrix!Susan also tickles my fancy, as does a PIRATE AU. I dunno who else would wear leather pants? Besides goths and punks and bikers AND DRACO.