Telmarine Hymn

[vovat]

I watched Sunday's Family Guy and American Dad episodes on tape last night. I didn't think either of them was all that funny, though. I did like Stewie's 52-Card Pickup bit in FG, though.

bethje also watched our newest Netflix things, both of which turned out to be duds. The first was Urban Legends: Final Cut, the sequel to Urban Legend. I thought the first one was pretty good, but the second was lame. It got pretty far away from the urban legend idea, and the villain's motive was really dumb. I think the writers might have had a bad experience in film school. The other thing we got was something called In Search of the American Drug Lords, which was about CIA agent Barry Seal. The subject matter might have been interesting in different hands, but this documentary was so boring, disjointed, and padded that neither of us really paid any attention to it after the first few minutes. I definitely don't recommend either of these.

This morning, I finished with my re-read of Prince Caspian. This was one of the two Narnia books that I remembered the least about (the other being The Last Battle). It's a pretty good story, with the Pevensies returning to Narnia after centuries had passed there. I do think it's kind of weird the way their ages are handled. They grow up in Narnia, but then return to England and become kids again. Then, when back in Narnia, they're still kids, but with some of the abilities they had as adults. It's all really confusing. Anyway, I like the idea of the Old Narnians living in hiding, and I thought it was a clever touch on C.S. Lewis' part that Caspian visits the homes of three bears and seven dwarfs. I guess the Three Little Pigs were away that day. {g} I also liked the sequence of Aslan working miracles throughout Narnia. If the book is filmed (and I have a feeling it probably will be), I hope we get to see most of this sequence.

I do wish Lewis had written more about Narnian history in between the Pevensies' initial departure and the Telmarine invasion. Aslan mentions that "they invaded Narnia, which was then in some disorder (but that also would be a long story), and conquered it and ruled it." As far as I know, though, he never told any of this "long story." What a tease the Lion is! :P And Lewis sure did love his parentheses, didn't he?

I'm reminded of a comic in Oz-Story Magazine, where two girls were arguing over whether Prince Caspian or Prince Inga (from Rinkitink in Oz) was cooler. I haven't looked at it in a while, but I remember one of the points being that Inga had it easy, what with his magic pearls giving him strength and advice and protecting him from harm. I'll have to try to hunt up that issue again. I think it might have been the fifth one.

Comments

[kristenjarrod.livejournal.com]

I didn't really like this week's FG either, but like you said the 52 card pick up thing was funny.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

I think I remember Caspian least of all the books too. Everything I THINK I remembered from Caspian turns out to have been from Dawn Treader.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Well, less time passes in Narnia in between Caspian and Dawn Treader than in between any of the other books, so I can see why you might have mixed them up. I actually thought Bacchus and Silenus had appeared in The Lion, but it turns out to have actually been Caspian.