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362 – CUP!
Rags might not have a lot, but she DOES have an innate sense of justice. And that’s being prickled right now!
Speaking of Narnia (as I was), I always though that Rabadash got a raw deal. Okay, so Rabadash is the evil Arabian stereotype who leads the evil Arabian stereotype people on their invasion of Narnia in The Horse and His Boy. He loses, but, ever an asshole, he refuses to acknowledge the bigness of Aslan, so Aslan turns him into a donkey. And then tells him that he can only regain his human form if he entered Tash’s temple during his country’s great Autumn Feast that year, so that the assembled multitude could watch him change back. Aslan then warned him that if he ever went more than ten miles from the temple, he would resume the donkey form for the rest of his life.
Eventually, he succeeded his father as the new Tisroc, but because of his curse he stayed in the city, which meant that he was unable to lead military campaigns. Thus his reign was one of the most peaceful in Calormen’s history, earning him the official title, “Rabadash the Peacemaker”.
Behind his back, though, and after his death, due to his crushing defeat and transformation, he was referred to as “Rabadash the Ridiculous”.
When I was ten years old, I couldn’t get over what a complete dick move this was on Aslan’s part. I mean, really, talk about a sore winner! Not to mention, I really kind of bristled at the way that C.S. Lewis couldn’t even let Rabadash have any credit for keeping peace (even if he was forced into it). NOPE, you gotta be remembered FOREVER as a jackass. Really adding insult to injury there.
I did really love those Narnia books as a kid, but I couldn’t fight the weird feeling of wrongness that crept into them the more that I read. First, there’s that weirdness about whether Narnia’s a world or a country. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, it seems like Narnia is a world, right? Cuz Tumnus seems really confused and uncertain about the idea of there being other lands beyond Narnia and there’s that whole thing about how Narnians have never seen humans (Sons of Adam or Daughters of Eve, as they call them) before. But then, in later books, Narnia is just a country in a world that includes Calormen and Archenland (both countries with humans)… so, I dunno, it’s a lot less impressive. It’s not that Narnia is a mystical place where humans have never trod before, it’s just that Narnians are too provincial to have ever seen a human. Also , the witch’s winter spell is a lot less awe-inspiring when you realize that it apparently STOPPED AT THE BORDER. That’s cheap.
Oh yeah and Aslan kept making up weird rules that made no sense and demanding that everyone obey them even if they made no sense and then dispensing punishments that seemed really out of proportion with the crime. The Narnia books started feeling really off to me; I guess maybe they offended that innate sense of literary justice that I share with Rags. BLARG.
Okay, scratch my gritty Narnia video game idea. I’m sick of Narnia now!
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Rags might not have a lot, but she DOES have an innate sense of justice. And that’s being prickled right now!
Speaking of Narnia (as I was), I always though that Rabadash got a raw deal. Okay, so Rabadash is the evil Arabian stereotype who leads the evil Arabian stereotype people on their invasion of Narnia in The Horse and His Boy. He loses, but, ever an asshole, he refuses to acknowledge the bigness of Aslan, so Aslan turns him into a donkey. And then tells him that he can only regain his human form if he entered Tash’s temple during his country’s great Autumn Feast that year, so that the assembled multitude could watch him change back. Aslan then warned him that if he ever went more than ten miles from the temple, he would resume the donkey form for the rest of his life.
Eventually, he succeeded his father as the new Tisroc, but because of his curse he stayed in the city, which meant that he was unable to lead military campaigns. Thus his reign was one of the most peaceful in Calormen’s history, earning him the official title, “Rabadash the Peacemaker”.
Behind his back, though, and after his death, due to his crushing defeat and transformation, he was referred to as “Rabadash the Ridiculous”.
When I was ten years old, I couldn’t get over what a complete dick move this was on Aslan’s part. I mean, really, talk about a sore winner! Not to mention, I really kind of bristled at the way that C.S. Lewis couldn’t even let Rabadash have any credit for keeping peace (even if he was forced into it). NOPE, you gotta be remembered FOREVER as a jackass. Really adding insult to injury there.
I did really love those Narnia books as a kid, but I couldn’t fight the weird feeling of wrongness that crept into them the more that I read. First, there’s that weirdness about whether Narnia’s a world or a country. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, it seems like Narnia is a world, right? Cuz Tumnus seems really confused and uncertain about the idea of there being other lands beyond Narnia and there’s that whole thing about how Narnians have never seen humans (Sons of Adam or Daughters of Eve, as they call them) before. But then, in later books, Narnia is just a country in a world that includes Calormen and Archenland (both countries with humans)… so, I dunno, it’s a lot less impressive. It’s not that Narnia is a mystical place where humans have never trod before, it’s just that Narnians are too provincial to have ever seen a human. Also , the witch’s winter spell is a lot less awe-inspiring when you realize that it apparently STOPPED AT THE BORDER. That’s cheap.
Oh yeah and Aslan kept making up weird rules that made no sense and demanding that everyone obey them even if they made no sense and then dispensing punishments that seemed really out of proportion with the crime. The Narnia books started feeling really off to me; I guess maybe they offended that innate sense of literary justice that I share with Rags. BLARG.
Okay, scratch my gritty Narnia video game idea. I’m sick of Narnia now!
https://www.guttersnipecomic.com
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....a 362 cup...the FA expansion ideal...
Lost me with Narnia refs. Didn't read it as kid, as teen, knowing it as propaganda promoting Original Sin and Redemption akin to "Lord Of The Flies" didn't care to bother to read it - later read some reviews of Lewis, x-st propaganda etc - even his friend Tolkien disliked that allegory crap, saying that fantasy was this big thingy, not some poo where characters stand in for dogma points...
Lost me with Narnia refs. Didn't read it as kid, as teen, knowing it as propaganda promoting Original Sin and Redemption akin to "Lord Of The Flies" didn't care to bother to read it - later read some reviews of Lewis, x-st propaganda etc - even his friend Tolkien disliked that allegory crap, saying that fantasy was this big thingy, not some poo where characters stand in for dogma points...
The Narnia books never really survived the test of time to me either. As a young kid, they seemed amazing, and it felt amazing that the wold and the characters had changes that lasted *between books*, but when I got a bit older... Yeah, I went back and tried to read some of my favorites and was sorely disappointed.
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