Disney won't make the Third Chronicles of Narnia film

[Allyn Gibson]

I'm pretty sure that's the case,

Spoiler: The end

The rest of the family entered the new Narnia because they all died in the train accident while Susan remained alive because she wasn't with them thus giving her the chance at "redemption"

Susan asks an excellent question in Neil Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan" -- Why does she need "redemption"?

Spoiler: If Aslan

If Aslan killed her family to teach her a lesson -- which is, perhaps, the most charitable reading of The Last Battle -- then how does that make him worthy of being a god and worthy of worship?

 

[Trent Roman]

In the mindset of C.S. Lewis and those like him, we all require the slavery-lite redemption so magnanimously proferred by Aslan and his ilk, because we're all dirty, degenerate creatures born with the sin of previous generations (stored somewhere left of the appendix, I believe). After all, if you're aim is to enslave an entire population, it helps to make them all guilty first, from birth, regardless of act or intention.

As for Aslan being a complete asshole, quite certainly he is, but being a god isn't a question of worth, it's a question of power. The ideology of might makes right.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Gaith]

Exactly. That no one consciousness can be synonymous with morality is logically self-evident; Steven Pinker noted in The New York Times Magazine that Plato made “short work of it” almost two and a half millenia ago. “Does God have a good reason for designating certain acts as moral and others as immoral?” Pinker asks. “If not – if his dictates are divine whims – why should we take them seriously? [... And if] God was forced by moral reasons to issue some dictates and not others[,] why not appeal to those reasons directly? ”

No Narnia movie can escape this problem. Someone may make a Dawn Treader on a reduced budget, but I can't imagine the full series, Book 7 especially, being embraced and supported by today's mainstream. There's enough theological zealotry in the world already without teaching it to the children.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

As for Aslan being a complete asshole, quite certainly he is, but being a god isn't a question of worth, it's a question of power. The ideology of might makes right.

The Christian god is a Republican, then? "It's okay if you're a Republican" and "Do I say, not as I do."

 

[Trent Roman]

They do seem to get along well.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Neroon]

Off topic again? Good night thread, then.