narnia (geese a-laying)

[fox]

the parenthetical subject above is a little unfortunate, but listen, was it just me, or was the pace of LWW, like, omhgslow?

i liked the kids, though, and the animals.  and would you believe that with all the christian imagery in the series (which i was aware of beginning the second time i read it, at the age of ten or eleven), it wasn't until i was actually watching the movie that i twigged to the fact that the older boy is called peter?  shame on self.  (of course it also took me three or four years to realize that fawkes is a clever name for a phoenix.  what can you do.)

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[angevin2.livejournal.com]

it wasn't until i was actually watching the movie that i twigged to the fact that the older boy is called peter?

I didn't pick up on that until now.

I did, however, get the Fawkes thing right away, so I am a good scholar but a bad Christian. ;)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i'm evidently a terrible scholar (and a wretched linguist -- i didn't get the Mirror of Erised either, and i'd tried all sorts of ways of decoding the inscription but not the right way, until my friend darthhellokitty started talking about the Mirror of Onrop; on the other hand, when i confessed my late realization of the Fawkes thing, at least a couple of people admitted that they didn't get Diagon Alley until the scene where the pronunciation is an issue in the second film, didn't get Knockturn Alley, etc., etc., which boggles my mind) -- but i'm not a christian at all, so i think i can get a pass on this one. ;-)

[impyvixen.livejournal.com]

I didn't even get the Fawkes thing until I read this post. DUH.

But, Knockturn?

I must be a horrible Catholic. *blushes in shame* well, not really... screw catholicism. ;-)

[impyvixen.livejournal.com]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Merci. Weird. i got the Diagon Alley thing right away and didn't even think about correlating that to Knockturn Alley.

I'm such a dork.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Knockturn+Alley = nocturnally. decent name for a Bad Neighborhood. [g]

[impyvixen.livejournal.com]

hahaha... saw the typo, didn't care. ;-) LOL.

It's funny... I actually thought to myself, what the heck is Fox doing up at 3:30am? then I remembered you're on the right side of the Atlantic now. :)

[shezan.livejournal.com]

The Fawkes bit still whizzes above my head. Enlighten me, please?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

you know guy fawkes, right? so it's a funny name for a bird that bursts into flames. :-)

[shezan.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*

Yeah, well, brain cells a tad sluggish these days, and all...