"She's interested in nothing nowadays except nylons and lipstick and invitations. She always was a jolly sight too keen on being grown-up."

I see what you did there…

The first time we went to Disney World, the TV at the hotel we stayed at had a channel with one movie, on repeat. (This was during the late Middle Ages, you understand. Watching a movie, without commercials, outside a theater? Sorcery!)

It's at least entertaining in its craziness. "Brain and brain! What is brain?" "Givers of pain and delight"! McCoy overexplaining how Spock needs his "tremendous brain" to live! It's bad plotting, bad science, bad writing, but it's never dull.

I knew in the back of my mind that there was another famous Incident, but couldn't quite make it click.

I'm pretty sure that the biggest factor in extracting her is wanting to keep Philip on side. He's clearly having issues, and killing her and lying about it (or just telling him it was necessary) was threatening to end his usefulness to them. Whisking her to Moscow and giving her whatever minimal support they need to…

I'm too much of a Tolkien purist to really like it, but it certainly has interesting and ambitious bits.

Puddleglum's monologue on that subject is one of my favorite sequences from one of the most memorable characters in the series.

If Jackson's Hobbit movies were The Hobbit in the style of his TLotR, R-B's Return of the King was "The Lord of the Rings in the style of their The Hobbit". It was an 80s TV cartoon aimed at kids— I seriously doubt they ever considered not making it a musical.

I'd sort of like to see the effects people take on "Narnia! But even more awesome!" (With a glimpse of Even Better England for good measure.)

If Lewis's theology is right, reordering the Narnia books from publication order to internal chronology will be the first thing Douglas Gresham has to answer for before the Throne.

Tough sell. But the only way to get it out of your head is with "Where there's a Whip There's a Way". "Towers of the Teeth" isn't bad either.

You're absolutely right, of course. (Reading comprehension: failed. No cookie for me.)

It has an action girl who's better at everything than the protagonist, and the most diverse cast of the series. I think they'll manage to excise the explicit references to "white Narnians" (which it turns out Shasta isn't anyway) and get by fine.

The songs were catchy.

That sort of happened with the animated adaptations. Rankin-Bass did The Hobbit. Then Ralph Bakshi did "The Lord of the Rings", which (to the surprise of anyone going without reading reviews) stops abruptly right after Helm's Deep. A few years later, Rankin-Bass did a TV movie of The Return of the King, which had…

I'm not Christian, but trying to secularize Narnia is as pointless as trying to do the same to Paradise Lost or the Divine Comedy. Adapt it, or don't. But if you're going to try to remove the motivating themes that underpin it, what exactly is it about the story that you want to bring into another medium?

And The Hobbit movie trilogy, as it turned out.

It was more evocative when the U-2 Incident was still a relatively recent memory.

Sure— or do the Utgard-Loki story, but have Elli flat out win the wrestling match.