Man, I hate the split in the fandom, because it is all bookverse people on ff.net writing things that are not as good and do not seek to critique on the one hand, and awesome movieverse people on the other, and I am sooooo bookverse it isn't even funny, but almost all the writers I love are movieverse. :(
You just encapsulated why I haven't gotten involved with Narnia fandom and now feel very ambivalent about the whole thing despite my undying love for the books. :/ All the great ficcers are movieverse whereas I couldn't stand to watch more than 20 minutes of Prince Caspian before deciding I didn't give a flying crap about these characters and turning it off.
And hooooooow can they not be screwed up afterward?!?!
Because it's a light fantasy series for children. How many children's tales are so, so utterly effed up but we (or at least I) ate it up when we were kids because we weren't old enough to realize the authors were ignoring all these dark implications? Most of them, really. I personally love all the deconstructions and expansions going on in the adult Narnia fandom and cringe at all the gaping psychological holes Lewis left in his characters. But at the same time, I still cherish my childhood Narnia, with her lighthearted characters waltzing through adventures that really appealed to the mundane middle-class kid trapped in suburbia.
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You just encapsulated why I haven't gotten involved with Narnia fandom and now feel very ambivalent about the whole thing despite my undying love for the books. :/ All the great ficcers are movieverse whereas I couldn't stand to watch more than 20 minutes of Prince Caspian before deciding I didn't give a flying crap about these characters and turning it off.
And hooooooow can they not be screwed up afterward?!?!
Because it's a light fantasy series for children. How many children's tales are so, so utterly effed up but we (or at least I) ate it up when we were kids because we weren't old enough to realize the authors were ignoring all these dark implications? Most of them, really. I personally love all the deconstructions and expansions going on in the adult Narnia fandom and cringe at all the gaping psychological holes Lewis left in his characters. But at the same time, I still cherish my childhood Narnia, with her lighthearted characters waltzing through adventures that really appealed to the mundane middle-class kid trapped in suburbia.