Narnia (was Re: British Literature Characters)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., golden faile <golden_faile at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- Martin Hooper <mat at h...>
> wrote:
> > At 18:36 11/12/01, you wrote:
> > >Didn't they dramatize three of the Narnia books in
> > the late 1980s? I
> > >remember watching them on tv.
> > 
> > Yeah The BBC did them...  They certainly did justice
> > to the stories.  Can't 
> > remember the stories they did apart from The Lion,
> > The Witch and the 
> > Wardrobe.... ;)
> > 
> > 
> > They did, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe,
> Prince Caspian, Voyage of The Dawn Treader and The
> Silver Chair. I have them all on tape.
> 
> Laila

These were pretty good; however, being done bu the BBC, while the 
1940s British details were perfect, the special effects (pre-Red 
Dwarf) were *HORRIBLE!!* Among them was an Aslan that looked like a 
giant stuffed animal, Talking Beavers that were obviously prople in 
beaver suits, and a Cair Paravel that was just a small, old castle 
that could be seen from the Stone Table (putting the Greater Beruna 
Metropolitan Area far closer to CP than canon)
   I could live with the kids being modern Californians (rumor I 
heard) as long as Narnia looks like a sovreign nation in a parallel 
universe rather than the back forty of some English country estate!