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I liked Edmund a lot in "Prince Caspian" because he was all scornful and morally upstanding and a pretty kick-ass fighter, but he didn't do anything for me because he was clearly a kid.
So, saw "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" the other day.
Then I had to go look up how old Skandar Keynes is, because I know Edmund is only supposed to be about 16 in that story, but that actor's looking all grown and on-the-older-side-of-edge-of-manhood-ly, and the character is still scornful and upstanding and a kick-ass fighter...
Turns out it's not that shameful, because dude's about nineteen which means he's a legal adult and all. But my repeated train of thought while watching the movie was "wow, it's like they're writing a slash-engendering buddy-cop tv show about Caspian and Edmund right into their (also in many other ways extremely liberal reinterpretation of the plot)!" - and the actor who plays Caspian, Ben Barnes, is like 29, which is definitely campfire-rule territory...
So. Shameful(ish). But, um, any recommendations of good, preferably Dawn-Treader-era, Caspian/Edmund fic would not go amiss?
Whoever's casting the Narnia movies is really pretty awesome (I liked the late-80s/early-90s tv adaptations a lot, too, but these have been even better!) . Georgie Henley has been, in each movie, such a perfectly awesome Lucy. (Aside: I love Georgie Henley's hair - it is so amazingly gorgeous.) The kid they cast as Eustace for this one was a good match. I missed Eddie Izzard's flair for Reepicheep - and was surprised to find out his replacement was Simon Pegg, because I would've expected Pegg to have added his own flair to the character and instead I found him really quite a boring Reep.
In other news about Dawn Treader, I didn't much like a lot of the changes they made to the storyline. I get that the episodic nature of the book doesn't lend itself well to feature-film adaptation, so of course some rearranging and collapsing had to happen. But overall I thought the character-development arcs suffered a lot.
( SPOILERS AHOY, discussion of specific characters' arcs )
As usual, sets and production design out of this world. The dragon was a little underwhelming, especially his face, especially since they've done so well with other expressive CGI creatures... Fight scenes were awesome, costumes gorgeous. Overall, I approve & will probably watch it again. Yes, partly just to indulge my "look at those pretty men" impulses. But also, production design! And also, also, Lucy being awesome. Have they cast Jill Pole for the next one, yet?
So, saw "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" the other day.
Then I had to go look up how old Skandar Keynes is, because I know Edmund is only supposed to be about 16 in that story, but that actor's looking all grown and on-the-older-side-of-edge-of-manhood-ly, and the character is still scornful and upstanding and a kick-ass fighter...
Turns out it's not that shameful, because dude's about nineteen which means he's a legal adult and all. But my repeated train of thought while watching the movie was "wow, it's like they're writing a slash-engendering buddy-cop tv show about Caspian and Edmund right into their (also in many other ways extremely liberal reinterpretation of the plot)!" - and the actor who plays Caspian, Ben Barnes, is like 29, which is definitely campfire-rule territory...
So. Shameful(ish). But, um, any recommendations of good, preferably Dawn-Treader-era, Caspian/Edmund fic would not go amiss?
Whoever's casting the Narnia movies is really pretty awesome (I liked the late-80s/early-90s tv adaptations a lot, too, but these have been even better!) . Georgie Henley has been, in each movie, such a perfectly awesome Lucy. (Aside: I love Georgie Henley's hair - it is so amazingly gorgeous.) The kid they cast as Eustace for this one was a good match. I missed Eddie Izzard's flair for Reepicheep - and was surprised to find out his replacement was Simon Pegg, because I would've expected Pegg to have added his own flair to the character and instead I found him really quite a boring Reep.
In other news about Dawn Treader, I didn't much like a lot of the changes they made to the storyline. I get that the episodic nature of the book doesn't lend itself well to feature-film adaptation, so of course some rearranging and collapsing had to happen. But overall I thought the character-development arcs suffered a lot.
( SPOILERS AHOY, discussion of specific characters' arcs )
As usual, sets and production design out of this world. The dragon was a little underwhelming, especially his face, especially since they've done so well with other expressive CGI creatures... Fight scenes were awesome, costumes gorgeous. Overall, I approve & will probably watch it again. Yes, partly just to indulge my "look at those pretty men" impulses. But also, production design! And also, also, Lucy being awesome. Have they cast Jill Pole for the next one, yet?
