dear CS Lewis, drop dead.
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burntcopperMy bunnies are weird little fuckers. Idly planning the nano of 'the Pevensies stay at the end of Prince Caspian' (good god I need a plot/sequence of events) and suddenly last night, one little bastard latches onto my leg and goes 'what about Eustace, you? VOTD! Eh? EH?!?'
So now I've got sniffy introduction commentary from Eustace of his parents' opinion on the Pevensie children running off somewhere on the first day of school (since everyone knows they came back from evacuee-status in the country *weird*, and Peter kept getting into fights, etc, etc) and no word for a year. So he's in the box room in the house in Cambridge, poking at that horrible little clichéd painting, and that's when the wave hits and he finds himself being hauled out of the sea into a boat that contains his cousins Lucy and Edmund. Dressed weirdly. And three years older than they were when they disappeared (it's most obvious in Lucy, natch). With unbelievable airs and graces, who're all war-like and won't let up this silly pretence. And that vile talking mouse.
Lucy, Edmund and Caspian are on a voyage of checking up on the Lone Islands and beyond since it's finally settled enough (Cair Paravel's been re-built, treaties are sort of settled, they've got some navy and Terebinthia and Galma have already kow-towed). Pevensies couldn't really care less about some rogue lords that Caspian mentioned. Susan and Peter are back holding the fort - Peter's probably being sat on very heavily. And now... Eustace. No, I have no idea how the hell this might *possibly* go.
Almost certainly will not go into nano because of space and time requirements, but generally figuring it out to get the bunny to shut up.
Re-reading VotD to get details and... wow, there's clearly a bunch of bits I'd forgotten from the early days on the ship. Eustace swinging Reepicheep by the tail. Or that they hang around Narrowhaven for three weeks getting the ship spiffed up. Huh. Didn't remember Eustace getting dragoned that soon. Thought he was a little shit for far longer. Though Caspian is so *nice* and accommodating and 'Hail fellow well-met!' in this. I have no idea how they're going to reconcile this with arrogant naive suspicious bastard Caspian (who I like a lot more) in the film. CS Lewis, I can't believe you're describing half this shit. Not to mention that utter classic of a line about Susan going to America with the parentals because she'd get far more out of the trip since she was no good at school and the pretty one. Don't get me started on the timelines. This is only supposed to be *less* than two years after LWW, which would make it... summer of 1942? Holiday to America?!? Eustace staying with them the previous year? Which if I can figure that out by the vague time designations CS Lewis mentions, would mean he last saw them pre-PC.
So now I've got sniffy introduction commentary from Eustace of his parents' opinion on the Pevensie children running off somewhere on the first day of school (since everyone knows they came back from evacuee-status in the country *weird*, and Peter kept getting into fights, etc, etc) and no word for a year. So he's in the box room in the house in Cambridge, poking at that horrible little clichéd painting, and that's when the wave hits and he finds himself being hauled out of the sea into a boat that contains his cousins Lucy and Edmund. Dressed weirdly. And three years older than they were when they disappeared (it's most obvious in Lucy, natch). With unbelievable airs and graces, who're all war-like and won't let up this silly pretence. And that vile talking mouse.
Lucy, Edmund and Caspian are on a voyage of checking up on the Lone Islands and beyond since it's finally settled enough (Cair Paravel's been re-built, treaties are sort of settled, they've got some navy and Terebinthia and Galma have already kow-towed). Pevensies couldn't really care less about some rogue lords that Caspian mentioned. Susan and Peter are back holding the fort - Peter's probably being sat on very heavily. And now... Eustace. No, I have no idea how the hell this might *possibly* go.
Almost certainly will not go into nano because of space and time requirements, but generally figuring it out to get the bunny to shut up.
Re-reading VotD to get details and... wow, there's clearly a bunch of bits I'd forgotten from the early days on the ship. Eustace swinging Reepicheep by the tail. Or that they hang around Narrowhaven for three weeks getting the ship spiffed up. Huh. Didn't remember Eustace getting dragoned that soon. Thought he was a little shit for far longer. Though Caspian is so *nice* and accommodating and 'Hail fellow well-met!' in this. I have no idea how they're going to reconcile this with arrogant naive suspicious bastard Caspian (who I like a lot more) in the film. CS Lewis, I can't believe you're describing half this shit. Not to mention that utter classic of a line about Susan going to America with the parentals because she'd get far more out of the trip since she was no good at school and the pretty one. Don't get me started on the timelines. This is only supposed to be *less* than two years after LWW, which would make it... summer of 1942? Holiday to America?!? Eustace staying with them the previous year? Which if I can figure that out by the vague time designations CS Lewis mentions, would mean he last saw them pre-PC.
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Date: 2008-09-17 09:35 pm (UTC)Exactly! Shall I tell you about the OSS in the forties, and how the county park near me was used as a training site, and how although it actually stood for Office of Strategic Services, the running joke in Washington was that it was Oh So Social, because anyone who was anyone in Washington was actually working for them? *halos*
...oh lord, file the serial numbers off and leave out Narnia, and this could be a pretty delightful YA thing on its own, couldn't it?