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Narnia
Just finished watching Narnia and ... ya know, I never got into it. I spent most of my time wandering around the apartment and tormenting the cat and checking to see how much longer the movie had to go. I didn't get into any of the characters, wondered why all the denizens of Narnia accepted the humans as their rulers for no other reason that "Aslan said so," and wondered why, as I always do when confronted with anthropomorphic animals and nonhuman races in children's fiction, good and evil are always divided along species lines. It bothered the hell out of me in Brian Jacques' books because I think that "They're evil because they're weasels!" is a stupid way to go, and that's why I stopped reading his books, and why I put down any book that seems to be heading towards a species divide in morality.
I haven't read the Narnia books in a good long time - I bought an omnibus edition of them and plan on taking it on the cruise with me - but is Susan anything other than Queen Susan the Bloody Useless in the book? I vaguely remember that in the final one she didn't get to join in with everyone else because in the real world she'd become interested in boys and makeup and stuff like that, and there being a lot of to-do somewhere areound LJ about that.
And now I'm heading to bed. I'm at the point in the cold where it tends to settle in my throat and make me feel like I've got something stuck in there, which feels even worse when I lie down. OH JOY.
I haven't read the Narnia books in a good long time - I bought an omnibus edition of them and plan on taking it on the cruise with me - but is Susan anything other than Queen Susan the Bloody Useless in the book? I vaguely remember that in the final one she didn't get to join in with everyone else because in the real world she'd become interested in boys and makeup and stuff like that, and there being a lot of to-do somewhere areound LJ about that.
And now I'm heading to bed. I'm at the point in the cold where it tends to settle in my throat and make me feel like I've got something stuck in there, which feels even worse when I lie down. OH JOY.