Remember that nobody in Lewis's original audience needed to be told what the London Blitz was.
I had actually forgotten, until I re-read the book at the beginning of this break, that the whole reason the Pevensie children are being sent away to the country is the Blitz. I always remember in the case of A Tale of Time City, but my historical brain clearly checked out on this one . . .
the underlying artificiality whenever she tried to express any kind of non-threatening emotion in Edmund's direction.
Yes. She is always faintly, perceptibly off. I was sorry they had to lose the line about her as a Daughter of Lilith, because that always made so much mythical sense to me, but you would still never have taken her for human. (Plus I know Tilda Swinton can't really be seven feet tall, but my God: she looks it.)
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Ye gods and little fishes.
Remember that nobody in Lewis's original audience needed to be told what the London Blitz was.
I had actually forgotten, until I re-read the book at the beginning of this break, that the whole reason the Pevensie children are being sent away to the country is the Blitz. I always remember in the case of A Tale of Time City, but my historical brain clearly checked out on this one . . .
the underlying artificiality whenever she tried to express any kind of non-threatening emotion in Edmund's direction.
Yes. She is always faintly, perceptibly off. I was sorry they had to lose the line about her as a Daughter of Lilith, because that always made so much mythical sense to me, but you would still never have taken her for human. (Plus I know Tilda Swinton can't really be seven feet tall, but my God: she looks it.)