When I started this, I planned on skipping Thanksgiving, which is why I started a day earlier than 16 days. I neglected to remember that PowerBowl was yesterday and I was going to be there taking photos all day and therefore wouldn’t get anything done. Chapters 3 & 4 are both getting covered today - luckily they’re both about the Lone Islands. I really don’t have much to say about either one - everything I’m finding with this movie comes back to the seven swords and I can’t get past them or think of a new opinion about them.
Chapters 3 & 4: The Lone Islands & What Caspian Did There
After getting captured, Caspian gets sold to Lord Bern, takes over the Lone Islands, rescues everyone else, and is otherwise generally awesome.
The only time I really love Caspian in the book is these two chapters. Other times he usually in the background (odd, since he’s the king) or doing something stupid that forces Edmund to pull rank on him. Maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but this IS the only time you really see him for the good leader & king that he’s become since his somewhat timid days in Prince Caspian. His diplomatic and strategic skills come into play and he manages to end a slave trade, re-establish his sovereignty, and change the form of government in the Lone Islands without even having a battle. Impressive, really.
If spoilers are anything to go by, the Lone Islands are where we first hear of the seven swords/green mist thing in the movie. The main characters are exploring an abandoned bell tower and find a list of names of slaves that have been fed to the ‘darkness.’ Then slave traders descend from above them and capture them. One of the seven missing lords, Lord Bern, has also been captured by the slave traders and they meet him. After the slaves are freed (through a battle, of course. No Caspian artfully talking his way out of this one.) Lord Bern gives them one of the seven swords that were a gift from Aslan* to protect Narnia.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. I don’t know if I WILL get it until I see the movie. All I know is that this seven swords thing is getting pretty stinking annoying. And, um…that’s it.
I get the need for some sort of continuous plot for VDT, but why does it have to be this far from the book?
*This bit of news just in. Why do 7 Telmarine lords have swords from Aslan?
Chapters 3 & 4: The Lone Islands & What Caspian Did There
After getting captured, Caspian gets sold to Lord Bern, takes over the Lone Islands, rescues everyone else, and is otherwise generally awesome.
The only time I really love Caspian in the book is these two chapters. Other times he usually in the background (odd, since he’s the king) or doing something stupid that forces Edmund to pull rank on him. Maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but this IS the only time you really see him for the good leader & king that he’s become since his somewhat timid days in Prince Caspian. His diplomatic and strategic skills come into play and he manages to end a slave trade, re-establish his sovereignty, and change the form of government in the Lone Islands without even having a battle. Impressive, really.
If spoilers are anything to go by, the Lone Islands are where we first hear of the seven swords/green mist thing in the movie. The main characters are exploring an abandoned bell tower and find a list of names of slaves that have been fed to the ‘darkness.’ Then slave traders descend from above them and capture them. One of the seven missing lords, Lord Bern, has also been captured by the slave traders and they meet him. After the slaves are freed (through a battle, of course. No Caspian artfully talking his way out of this one.) Lord Bern gives them one of the seven swords that were a gift from Aslan* to protect Narnia.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. I don’t know if I WILL get it until I see the movie. All I know is that this seven swords thing is getting pretty stinking annoying. And, um…that’s it.
I get the need for some sort of continuous plot for VDT, but why does it have to be this far from the book?
*This bit of news just in. Why do 7 Telmarine lords have swords from Aslan?
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