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True, but I imagine you're probably either a liberal anglican or a nonconformist [remembers the Elizabeth Fry discussion ... thus Quaker?]? Said to an Anglo-Catholic or a conservative Catholic and such things are likely to get your head bitten off (he says with experience!). When it comes to religion, I ask myself the simple question: does a supreme being sound plausible? To which my answer has been always: no. Other people think differently? Fair enough.

ok, i'm pretty sure the left side of my body has died.

She is massively sidelined because she "grew up" and no longer believed in Aslan and Narnia anymore... in that sense she was excluded. Although, of course, as evangelical christians everywhere will try to insist: everyone can be saved if they believe. Yes brothers and sisters, you gotta believe! Believe! Hallelujah!

Bleurgh.

[...] Claim to fame: I know Anna Popplewell, who plays Susan in the films. She went to my secondary school, although I didn't really know her there. I worked with her on some Oxford plays. My mum knows her parents & sister well now. [...]

Oooh, nice. She looked really pretty in the new movie!

[...] I guess the bit that's different, and a bit cringeworthy, is that I realised it might be a bit more damaged later in the night when we tried to have sex and I had to give up because it was just too painful (remember I'm a 19 year old guy here, so that meant something was really wrong!).

How odd. I thought Susan looked really plain in the previous two movies, which is odd considering how beautiful she is supposed to be in the books (i.e. it is mentioned that all the princes over the world want to marry her in The Horse and His Boy), though obviously taking into account she was an adult by then (even the adult Susan in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was average), and was now really rather attractive. Perhaps the lipstick did it for me!

I personally thought the person who played Eustace looked like a chipmunk, and was probably too attractive for the character; I always imagined him being ugly. Edmund and Peter were spot on to be honest.

How odd. I thought Susan looked really plain in the previous two movies, which is odd considering how beautiful she is supposed to be in the books (i.e. it is mentioned that all the princes over the world want to marry her in The Horse and His Boy), though obviously taking into account she was an adult by then (even the adult Susan in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was average), and was now really rather attractive. Perhaps the lipstick did it for me!

Lucy, on the other hand, was adorable in the first two movies, but she is coming along nicely as she matures! Can I say that without sounding like a pervert?

I personally thought the person who played Eustace looked like a chipmunk, and was probably too attractive for the character; I always imagined him being ugly. Edmund and Peter were spot on to be honest.

Andrew Rilstone wrote an interesting response to the 'Susan problem' which should clear up that issue. In a obvious sense, the suggestion that she was excluded is just silly: she was not on the train in The Last Battle so she could not die, thus go to heaven. The others asked her to join them; she declined so it cannot be exclusion in the most basic sense of the word/concept.

It is a complete non-issue for me to be honest.

With one eye to the time and with the other on the fact I'm debating this essential point with an English major but Lewis 'made' her decline the offer for a reason. [...]