i've been here, i've done this all before

[likecharity]

So I'm still having a lot of Narnia cast feelings. I'm not entirely sure where this came from. I have this theory that because there were about three years between each movie, it's a sort of biological clock thing? Like some part of me recognises that three years have passed and there has not been a Narnia fandom resurgence and so it's like. Psst.

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[prunesquallormd]

'Finally' is right! I'd never have believed when I started it that it would take me 4 years XD

Thank you for the lovely rec! I'm so touched <3

Ooh, talking of things that have taken years to finish! :p I'm 3/4 of the way through betaing chapter 8 of The Night Starts Here. I'm so, so sorry it's taken me so long :( I should be finished soon, though, and I'm really loving it :3

Obviously, the fact that I've spent the last few weeks reading explicit Anna/Skandar/Will threesomes has meant that I've found it pretty impossible to read this post without imagining them getting hot and heavy with each other XD

(As I'm writing this, there's a massive thunder storm outside. It's been so hot and humid today, I'm not surprised, but it's kind of scary!)

I love this post! SO many feelings and so many good memories and it's just so lovely to see them all grown up and being all cute and hilarious and stuff. And oh my gosh, Georgie and Will sound so lovely and intelligent and mature. In that interview with Georgie it's kind of disconcerting because she looks so young (like, if she hadn't said she was 16, I'd have said she was a fair bit younger) but she sounds so incredibly grown up and just really comfortable and charming.
And Will P is just really cool and nice, I think. I remember him being utterly charming and hilarious when they were doing the publicity for Dawn Treader. But eep, how is he 20 already? It does make him being Eustace in The Silver Chair somewhat problematic but I really hope that they make it very soon, and that they cast him in the role because he was so, so good in Dawn Treader.
To answer your question, no more than a few months pass between Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair. I'd have to check, but I think Dawn Treader takes place takes place in the summer holidays and The Silver Chair takes place in the September of the same years. And Eustace is more or less Lucy's age, and she's no more than 9 or 10 or something in it? (Again, I'd have to have a dig through the books and my notes and stuff and I'm all comfy on the sofa XD)
Which is all to say, there was already a huge age discrepancy by the time they made Prince Caspian. That was supposed to be less than a year after LWW and Georgie especially already looked a lot older. I dunno if Will P is just going to be too old for it to be doable when and if they finally do make The Silver Chair, and that would be such a shame. He's basically Eustace for me now, it would be such a shame if they had to cast someone else.

I just hope they do make it though. Keeping my fingers crossed for it. And The Magician's Nephew. And one day I want to see a film of The Horse and His Boy. It'll be incredibly hard to make without it being panned for being horribly racist and all, but if they do manage it I'd be so pleased. It's always been my favourite :)

Ben Barnes is still ridiculously attractive, though he looks a whole lot better when he's not being directed by some photographer to go for the whole super-sexy look.

This comment is soooo long, but there's so much to talk about here.
Basically, awesome fabulous post is awesome and fabulous.
Thank you for posting it. It's brought back soooo many feelings.

And you know that I'm more than happy to be dragged back into Narnia fandom1

I hope you're well. I shall write properly as soon as possible.

♥ ♥ ♥

[likecharity]

You're welcome. :) 4 years is a long time!! But I think you should just feel proud that you actually stuck with it for that long. And I was just thinking, I started The Night Starts Here in 2007, and I'm still working on it 7 years later. Which is ridiculous. Obviously I've had huge breaks in between though, while you were keeping yours going quite consistently. I'm glad you're enjoying the new part, btw. I'm quite nervous about it so that's good to hear, and I look forward to hearing more of your thoughts soon. :) Now that some more time has passed, there are a few bits I'm unsure about and might fiddle with again, so maybe we can talk about that when you're finished!

Haha, that is not a bad thing! And lol, my sister was just telling me about the thunderstorm, it sounds like it was pretty dramatic. We had it over here but it only lasted about 5 minutes so that wasn't very exciting.

I'm so glad you like the post. ♥ It's crazy how grown up Georgie and Will P. are now! And haha, in those interviews with Georgie, she's actually 18! She was 16 when she filmed the movie - I don't know if that's what you meant? But I'm pretty sure the interviews happened when the movie came out which was about a month ago. And she's turning 19 this July!! It's crazy. I loved listening to those interviews because I'd been listening to the LWW and PC commentaries and there's definitely a difference in the way she talks now, but at the same time it's so clearly the same old Georgie. She does sound mature but still not like...media-trained, and I like that. She seems so genuine.

Will P.'s speech was just the sweetest thing. The bit about Finding Nemo! And yeah I really hope that if they do make Silver Chair, he can still be Eustace...I'd forgotten that there wasn't supposed to be such a long gap between LWW and PC, so I sort of feel like if they made that work, they could manage this too? I feel like it'd be less jarring than if they used a totally different actor, but I don't know if everybody would feel that way. He was so perfect though! And thank you for your book-knowledge, I was hoping you would know! I'd love for them to make The Magician's Nephew too, that's the only other one I've read I think? And it would be easy in some ways because the only actor who'd need to come back is Tilda, and the fact that she's older now isn't as obvious as it is with the kids. She can definitely look much younger than she is, anyway. I haven't read The Horse and His Boy (I might have started it, I can't remember?) but I have heard about the race issues so I'm not sure how they'd get around that.

I know what you mean! I still think he looks good, but there are a lot of photoshoots he does that I can't help finding funny even though they're obviously supposed to be sexy?? I think it's just because he's such a dork in real life that it's hard to take it seriously.

My comment is super long too!! I'm so happy to be talking about this stuff though, I'm glad you are too. ♥

[prunesquallormd]

I saw the We're the Millers DVD when I was buying groceries and wouldn't have looked twice if it hadn't had Will Poulter on the front, but I just watched the trailer and it looks kinda fun. And it has Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation in it, who's hilarious.
I actually haven't seen any of the Narnia cast in anything else yet (except Ben in Dorian Grey, which I loved). It makes me sad and I really have to seek them out. I just love them all and it'll be so nice to catch up with what they're doing now. I haven't even seen Reign yet :(

I don't understand Skandar's attitude to Edmund. Is it because he's embarrassed by the films, or his acting? Or is it a weight round his neck? I dunno. It's odd.
As far as Edmund being kind of bad for much of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, that just made him a more fully rounded person later on, I think. I have especial soft spots for both Edmund and Eustace because they started out so horrible :)

Don't be nervous about Chapter 8. It flows on from the other parts perfectly. I love it <3
(I'll be able to get my comments and whatnot to you very soon, I hope :)).

[likecharity]

Oh I don't think I knew it had Nick Offerman in it! That is another good reason to see it. In general it looks like the kind of movie that I might find silly and get secondhand embarrassment from, but I'll probably give it a go anyway.

You know, I haven't seen them in much either. Compiling this post made me realise I hadn't really been keeping up with their careers before. Probably a lot of the stuff isn't really worth watching but I do want to see more than what I have already. And I definitely recommend Reign, as you know! And Perfect Sisters if you can get hold of it.

I don't know. It's probably not like a big deal, it might just be that he's tired of being recognised in general? Like, maybe it's not specifically about Narnia. I can imagine that if you were just trying to focus on university and people kept staring at you and recognising you and asking questions about a project you were trying to move on from, it'd get quite tiring. I doubt he actually regrets being involved in the movies, I suspect it's more to do with being in the public eye. I seem to remember him saying in an interview once that he didn't like that aspect of acting. And yeah Edmund is definitely my favourite character because he's so complex!

♥ Thanks again for your thoughts! They were really helpful. I've fiddled around with a few bits now. I also realised that my timeline was way off and I'd written that chapter taking place a year later than it should've done, so I had to fix that...it's so complicated. Because of the existing chapters, I'm kind of bound to a specific timeline now in which Dawn Treader starts filming practically a whole year before it did in real life, only a few months after Prince Caspian premiered?? Which is annoying, but I guess we can just pretend that everyone was incredibly organised in this universe and the dates didn't keep getting pushed back...