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Awesome video man, i wish youtube had a super like button or something, i would use it here, maybe top 3 videos I have seen this month, maybe the best actually
I think it's good to read them in publication order, but I can see how maybe if you're trying to summarize the whole series in a short(ish) video, that order isn't ideal. Not sure trying to insert _The Horse and his Boy_ between _The Lion Witch and Wardrobe_ and _Prince Caspian_ is all that helpful, though. HaHB just doesn't fit in very well anywhere, and it doesn't follow the rules established in the other books, either.
I don't really get reading them in publication order. For sure read Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe first because it's a classic, but then read the spin-offs like Magician's Nephew and Horse and His Boy. Then just read chronologically.
You're a bit too flippant in regards to other religions with some of your critique, I think. Christianity and/or Catholicism being dominant religions doesn't mean they deserve greater treatment in terms of representation on a TV show. In fact I would argue overall the angels were given much more respect, as the seasons where the brothers encountered pagan deities made them out to be little better than monsters who ate people. In the end a lot of the decisions for the show are made from the point of view of a truly absent god, one that has not even been seen or heard from by his greatest servants. But the truth of the matter is I feel the show suffered from success, and had almost 10 too many seasons. Edit: Oh, you actually only watched six seasons. Well I guess that might be for the best cause much later they outright have god appear lol.
The Byzantine empire may have seen itself as Rome's continuation, but I'm not obliged to accept that characterization. I'd be interested in researching it further though.
I tried to read eye of the world and got too bored to finish it. From everything I've heard about that series, that's one of the easier reads; I doubt I'd make it through the whole series.
One show is recommended is neon genesis evangelion. It’s a mecha anime, that’s only 24 episodes long (plus a movie) Going into it blind is really the best way to watch it, so all I’m gonna say is that if you find the 1st half a little boring (I personally didn’t but I get why someone would), still keep watching it, it gets better during the 2nd half.
@@JPKloess Wow so no redemption for her no nothing. Just stopped believing and was left behind? Did the author want that to be some kinda lesson for kids growing up. It’s kinda mad when you deep one of the mc’s were just dropped like that
@@Radahn_is_ez I think it makes a lot of sense. Lewis is showing how people's perspective can be warped as they grow older, and they can begin to think that organized religion is merely the game of children - and stop taking their salvation seriously.
I remember being 10 and physically reordering these books in chronological order within their boxed set cardboard frame. Thanks for the nostalgia trip :)
Sorely tempted to just stop listening after you said reading in publication order is wrong...I'll keep listening, though...but you're on thin ice, pal! THIN. ICE.
A little nitpick: after Lucy came back and told everyone about Narnia, Edmond went to the wardrobe and went to Narnia himself. It was there he saw the White Witch and she bribe him with candy (Turkish Delight) to bring his other siblings back with him, in which they listened to him and not Lucy.
Its funny looking back at the movies as a adult. When your younger watching these movies you thought they where awesome and thinking that the big battles where end game/no going back situations. And indeed they are still pretty good. Especially the 2nd one which definitely brings in a lot more fantastical spectacle in the action pieces. I guess the directors tried making them was trying to make pg LOTR, but no one can achieve that.
Narnia itself is an allegory for the history of England. The fact most people think it's an allegory for the bible is because it has biblical themes within it. But that's because Lewis saw England as a fundamental Christian country. Saying its not an allegory is just semantics honestly. I mean you've just said Orwells animal farm is an allegory, well is the pig napoleon exactly like stalin? No, and the Turkish delight was never meant to be the forbidden fruit, that part is in the magicians nephew. There's certainly a code within narnia if you know the history of great Britain and he covers immigration, communism, nuclear armament and everything. Yes the narnia stories are meant to be dissected, that's part of enjoying them, and artists often tell people that their work doesn't mean this or that just to hide it. Lewis was influenced by his mate Tolkien and vice versa, Tolkien of course wrote lord of the rings which is a direct allegory to the ring cycle...etc etc
@@JPKloessSay what you will about it, but ol' Clive "Jack" Staples was _definitely_ taking notes off Tolkien for the protagonist of "The Space Trilogy." And Tolkien was _none-to-pleased_ about Lewis' name-dropping of _Nùmenor_ in "That Hideous Strength."
This is very interesting, it is very rare to see someone actually know about their religion. It fascinates me even though I’m a Theist. I do wonder what do you think about Destiel? I always found (early) Castiel fascinating because I love the angel > demon canon and I was sad SPN did not go that way, angels as “protected naive” creatures but curious of the world is fantastic world building and seeing him explore the world and question it was a great arc. So I get to Destiel, there is something very appealing about Deans lack of faith and belief of good creatures to have one walk into his life and become one of his closest allies
My thoughts with Susan is that she is actually C.S. Lewis's self-insert. Like the books are famously known for being an allegory to christianity but Lewis was not always devout. In his young adulthood he was a known athiest only becoming born again around his 30s. I think if he had the chance he could have wrote one more book about Susan finding her spirituality through God/Aslan and how there is never a wrong time to look back and start believing again. (prefacing I'm not religious, im just narnia-pilled)
I totally agree, and people being so harsh on Lewis for his treatment of Susan kinda overlook this often. As a Christian myself, my journey of faith has and will be so long and winding, it'd indeed be a very boring 'grown up' story for a kids book.
@chrisbolland5634 you are being less critical because you are Christian I don't care if she's a self insert. Susan no longer being a "friend of Narnia" is stupid and he even mentions that she wears lipstick and things like that as if that's evil. It's preachy, and weird.
@@kittylemeu1373 yup. If you were a christian, no doubt you might see it from a different persepctive as well. Lewis's focus on nylons and lipstick is mentioned in character by Lucy: an important point. LUCY sees the root of susan's problem as vapid materialism, but I forget who, one of the male characters then says that Susan is wasting her life trying to 'grow up' away from Narnia. I think this is the real heart of susan's turning away, it's not about 'being girly is bad' is that susan is hiding from the reality she experienced (a metaphor for spirituality) by pretending that it was all just a childish dream. She's denying that which she knows to be true deep down because she's afraid, as another of lewis's characters says in another book, of making 'a break with the spirit of the age.' I think that susan 'no longer being a friend of narnia' is actually a good way to include people whose journies of faith, much like lewis's own, are not something a children's story could explore. Lewis doesn't just pretend everything is peachy with susan, he specifically went out of his way to mention in his later letters to concerned fans like yourself that Susan isn't 'damned' or any nonesense like that. Her road is just different than her siblings and lewis didn't feel the need to explore it. Or perhaps he does in round-about ways in his other writings like The Great Devorce. You are perfectly within your rights to think that this is 'weird,' but this is a story where a random dude with goat legs invites a little girl into his home and gives her sardines on toast in the middle of a 100 year winter. This story is weird. If that's a dealbreaker on enjoying it I'm amazed you made to the end of the last book.
Felt like a little elementary kid again Good times never read the rest of the books but definitely remember the movies, such a great breath of fresh air getting more lore of childhood series
I know that the whole point of the video is to be a oversimplification, but I was so sad to see Fingolfin’s death being so quick. It’s such an awesome scene.
Considering how well you did the Narnia video I was expecting this to be just as good. Not to hear you insulting the books and characters and getting half your facts wrong. Earned a dislike and lost a subscriber.
