[ SECRET POST #6924 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6924 ⌋

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[fscom]

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Transcript - Chronicles of Narnia

[(Anonymous)]

First part of rant: I loved these books as a kid and somehow managed to miss all the religious allegory. This has ruined them for me as an adult and I'm sad about it. Bonus for how fascinated I was by Narnia's Golden Age, which got very little explorations in the books. Extremely disappointing.

Second part of rant: I 100% shipped these two [Peter and Prince Caspian] hard in the second movie, and the amount of fic was very disappointing for years. Within the last 15 months, there are suddenly multiple epic-length longfics on AO3. IDK who did what, but omfg, thank you for reviving this ship.

Re: Transcript - Chronicles of Narnia

[(Anonymous)]

I was bought up as a Christian and still missed all of the religious allegory when I read these as a kid, well at least until the final book anyway. I just thought they were a fun fantasy series.

Re: Transcript - Chronicles of Narnia

[(Anonymous)]

Lollll saaaaaame. I didn't know until I read it somewhere......

Re: Transcript - Chronicles of Narnia

[(Anonymous)]

....let me run a second to AO3....

[philstar22]

I still enjoy these books, though they aren't favorites, and the religious elements are too preachy for my taste. I still like the world, though. And I'm still sad we've never gotten an adaption of the best of the books (IMHO), Magician's Nephew. I want to see Charn and early Jadis on screen, damn it.

[(Anonymous)]

Greta Gerwig is filming an adaptation of MN right now. It's been brought forward to the 1950s. This is a big disappointment. But here's one of the settings, hopefully the hall of statues in Charn:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Narnia/comments/1nkd02n/netflixs_narnia_filming_inside_900yearold/

[(Anonymous)]

They're great stories. Flawed, and of their time, but aren't all stories and authors?

[feotakahari]

I couldn’t get into these because Aslan is a dick.

[(Anonymous)]

I was more okay with them as a kid, even though the religious allegory was a bit heavy handed IMO (my parents were regular church-goers every Sunday) and I thought Aslan was unfair. But it made sense to me because I felt the same way about God. I'm an atheist now, and I don't think I'd enjoy the series as much as I used to because the religious aspect is too much to ignore.

[(Anonymous)]

I was well into my 30s before I learned about the religious elements of Narnia... and that was through Tumblr.

Coming from a different religious background, the imagery flew right over my entire family's collective heads.

[(Anonymous)]

Same tbh, though in my case it was a "not at all religious" background.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Same! I had no idea. I was not raised in a religious household and all of it flew way past me. I was definitely fully an adult when someone pointed it out and then they had to actually explain it because I was still just "but how?"

[(Anonymous)]

I swear I'm still working on my deconstruction of Narnia with Aslan as a trickster god, but in the meantime let's talk about the golden age. I want to know how the actual fuck these four kids forgot Earth existed and how they got there within about 10-15 years (since it was said they weren't super adults yet, probably in their 20s to 30 and if they were between 8-15 when they arrived....). I know they assimilated hard but, to the point of not knowing the lantern? It's not even the biggest plot hole but it sure does beg a lot of suspension of disbelief.

Let's also think about the gross racism/xenophobia in the one book set during that time, wow.

[(Anonymous)]

I figured it was the ~~*~~maaaagic~~*~~ aspect that made them forget and altered their speech to Ye Olde Timey Medieval Accent in a relatively short amount of time. Like Narnia itself is cheating a little bit re: the assimilation in an attempt to keep them there.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah, most likely, since everything Lewis couldn't figure out a solution for became ~~maaagic~~, it's just annoying. Especially since the human population of Narnia that Aslan put there to rule died out/left not once but twice.

[(Anonymous)]

That was the impression I had too, not sure if it was the intent of the author or just how I explained it to myself.

[tabaqui]

I always thought that time worked differently so they lived a lot longer (but didn't age very fast), so that was why.
Plus - kids adapt, change, and forget more than adults do.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, it might have been skewed by my flist, but I remember a ton of Caspian/Peter fic coming out at the time.

[(Anonymous)]

I grew up in a non-religious household so the religious allegory flew over my head and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe was the only book I read in the series.

At some point in adulthood, when it was pointed out to me, I felt like an idiot for not seeing it sooner lmao

Agreed that once I saw it I couldn't quite enjoy a fun kids' book like I did as a kid anymore.
Although I do find CS Lewis's relationship to his faith very interesting.

[greghousesgf]

I was super disappointed that the movie version of Prince Caspian left out my favorite parts of the book.