The Chronicles of Narnia has got to pull the biggest mindfuck on the children.
charlie and algernon
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Wed Nov-02-11 06:01 PM
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The Chronicles of Narnia has got to pull the biggest mindfuck on the children. |
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Edited on Wed Nov-02-11 06:18 PM by charlie and algernon
Four kids stumble into a closet and find magical world with fanciful creatures. They embark on a great adventure and become literally royalty and rule ove an entire world for years well into adulthood.
Then they go back through the closet and suddenly they're back to children as if all those awesome years never happened?! How do they not jump off tower bridge after that? How do they possibly restart their lives knowing that they ALREADY grew up once before?
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Wed Nov-02-11 06:09 PM
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1. the mind is a wonderous playground?? |
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Edited on Wed Nov-02-11 06:10 PM by Angry Dragon
How many times have you said to yourself 'I wish I could go back in time and know then what I know now??'
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Wed Nov-02-11 06:16 PM
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4. Well yeah, I've said that, but then I'm not an actual king |
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It's not like they could've become royalty again. Sure they could use those lessons they learned while royalty, but as far as they knew, they were never going back to Narnia. They went from a beautiful, open world back to dark pre-WWII London.
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Wed Nov-02-11 06:10 PM
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2. It's preperation for real life. |
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One day you are working, ruler of your own little financial empire, next day you are unemployed, and it's worse then being a kid 'cause nobody's gonna pay your bills.
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Wed Nov-02-11 06:13 PM
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Wed Nov-02-11 06:31 PM
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6. C S Lewis gave a simple explanation. Narnia is what earth would have been like |
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if there really was a god. How could kids not like that scheme?
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Wed Nov-02-11 06:36 PM
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7. Never read Narnia. But yeah - kids books are quite manipulative. The heroes |
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are inevitably orphans or their parents get killed in the story... or in the case of Dumbo have mom put in jail.
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Wed Nov-02-11 06:41 PM
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8. You mean you never raised up, lost and regained vast kingdoms...and still made it home before dark? |
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I did. Lots.
Though I sometimes stretched the definition of dark every now and then.
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Thu Nov-03-11 07:01 AM
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9. And then they all die in a train wreck. |
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