So...
My cousin and my uncle came over on Saturday. I took my cousin out to see The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian because we were bored and she thought Ben Barnes was cute and PC was the last of the CoN books that I'd read.
Okay, I actually got partly through VDT, but even starting it was half-hearted with the lack of all the Pevensies, and I just quit partly through. It was a memorable experience, despite it happening when I was in elementary school, because it was one of two books that I've ever just given up on half-way through. Over ten years later, it still remains true that VDT and The Red Badge of Courage are the only two books that I could never bring myself to finish out of what must be hundreds by now. And trust me, some of the books I've read were so bad it was painful to finish them - but I did. It was just that these were just too unbearable. I just couldn't grasp the fact that suddenly Peter and Susan were gone and never coming back.
And I never went on to read the others after VDT because then all the Pevensies were dropped entirely. And it just felt bizarre to me that an author could just drop the main characters (because that's what the Pevensies were to me) and expect everything to be okay because Aslan was there and Narnia was there. For me, it was always about the characters, and I'd gotten attached to the Pevensies. Then, years later, I found out what happened to Susan and just wrote the whole series off because of the sheer disgust I felt about the message it sent. It offended me then, and it offends me now, because it highlighted one of my most biggest problems with the general Christan belief system - that reason being why I believe in God and Jesus but refuse to follow any specific denomination/sect/whatever.
Wow, this post just spiraled into a hotbed, didn't it?
Anyway, Prince Caspian was a pretty good movie overall. I didn't mind the whole Susan/Caspian thing, because I'm definitely not a fan of canon when it comes to the CoN series as a whole and anything pro-Susan is fine by my books. She's hardly ever used at all as it is - another point which makes me not so much a fan of the books - and so...
I liked it.
Okay, I actually got partly through VDT, but even starting it was half-hearted with the lack of all the Pevensies, and I just quit partly through. It was a memorable experience, despite it happening when I was in elementary school, because it was one of two books that I've ever just given up on half-way through. Over ten years later, it still remains true that VDT and The Red Badge of Courage are the only two books that I could never bring myself to finish out of what must be hundreds by now. And trust me, some of the books I've read were so bad it was painful to finish them - but I did. It was just that these were just too unbearable. I just couldn't grasp the fact that suddenly Peter and Susan were gone and never coming back.
And I never went on to read the others after VDT because then all the Pevensies were dropped entirely. And it just felt bizarre to me that an author could just drop the main characters (because that's what the Pevensies were to me) and expect everything to be okay because Aslan was there and Narnia was there. For me, it was always about the characters, and I'd gotten attached to the Pevensies. Then, years later, I found out what happened to Susan and just wrote the whole series off because of the sheer disgust I felt about the message it sent. It offended me then, and it offends me now, because it highlighted one of my most biggest problems with the general Christan belief system - that reason being why I believe in God and Jesus but refuse to follow any specific denomination/sect/whatever.
Wow, this post just spiraled into a hotbed, didn't it?
Anyway, Prince Caspian was a pretty good movie overall. I didn't mind the whole Susan/Caspian thing, because I'm definitely not a fan of canon when it comes to the CoN series as a whole and anything pro-Susan is fine by my books. She's hardly ever used at all as it is - another point which makes me not so much a fan of the books - and so...
I liked it.