Nah, they're based as fuck. Royalty willingly abdicating the throne to become one of the people should be applauded, not criticized. Though they could have established a new government of the people before doing so...
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I preferred Lev Grossman's version. In his Magicians books and their TV adaptation, the equivalent to Narnia is called Fillory and was created by two gods for their amusement. The rulers are required by divine mandate to be children of earth, specifically because one of said gods is on the southern edge of chaotic neutral and the idea of requiring all rulership to be invaders from a foreign world amuses him greatly.
In the TV adaptation, there's a whole thing where said children of earth arrange for an election to make things more legitimate and one of them wins by accidentally running on a pro-bestiality platform (stemming from a single comment at a bar) and then learning the talking animals outnumber the humans by a huge margin.
Well there are the indoor toilets and plumbing, easier access to food, lights at thr flick of a finger switch. Malls, internet, cellphones, and other post-medieval conveniences
They returned to the middle of the second world war lol.
yes. the famous internet, you access through your cellphone, that you buy in the mall... during the blitz.
i fucking wish i could ride the subway
A society either needs taxes or serfs in order to function. One of those systems is compatible with equality.
Tell that to Marx. True equality only happens when you move beyond both.
They had taxes
or ≠ xor
All so that we can figure out that God is a magic talking lion
Well, jesus. I don't think we ever actually see god in the books.
Is Aslan a God, or just a very old entity? I haven't read the books.
He says quite clearly that on earth his form is a lamb instead of a lion, and the last book is a straight eschaton.
He's 100% an allegory for the Christian God, but idr if he's the canonical God in Narnia itself.
He's literally sacrificed as a Christ figure
In the third book, he basically outright says he's Jesus.
When Edmund and Lucy are told they won't be returning to Narnia, Edmund asks if Aslan is also in the human world.
“Are you there too, Sir?” Edmund asks. “I am,” said Aslan. “But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
The whole book series is an allegory for the bible.
- The Magician's Nephew is an allegory of Genesis
- the Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe is an allegory of Christ
- and the Last Battle is an allegory of Revelations
I've thought about the isekai genre (ending up in another world) a lot lately and how a big part is usually the characters trying to find a way home. I wondered what percentage of people would actually want that nowadays. I suspect it's considerably lower than it used to be.
"As for you, young lady, you want to go home, right?"
"No, not anymore. I want to stay here and become the new wicked witch."
"Nonsense! Now click your big honking boots together three times and wish to go home to Kansas to live in poverty with your dirt-farming, teetotaling aunt and uncle!"
If I could bring my cat and like 3 other people, I would 100% be like "good luck, losers!" and would never be heard from again lol.
Old isekai had the MC want to go home. Modern isekai has the MC wanting to start over and stay in their new world. You can chart the change based on how dissolutioned young adults are about the Japanese Dream of stable employment and raising a family.
Sword Art Online's original premise sounded kinda fun to me tbh. Though I have a feeling the whole "society makes sure that the players get life support in the hospital while they are stuck" wouldn't work as nicely in RL as it did in the anime. But "can't log out of video game because it'll kill me if I really try" would be kinda nice for a while.
People were dying because eventually power outages, and people pulling the plug. It was a major plot point.
But uh there's a reason he goes right back in LMAO
Yeah, I think it was episode 2 that mentioned some people just disappearing to never return and others disappearing temporarily while they were being moved to hospitals and the Nerve Gear having capacitors or something designed to allow it to be unplugged for a few hours before it does the death shock to allow for that.
It seemed like it wasn't a recurring thing, so most of the players in the game at the end of ep 2 must have been moved to hospitals (or had other life support options).
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Its been a long while since I've read the books or seen the movies, but weren't they escaping WW2?
Seems kinda... worse than taxes and the subway. "Ah yes, lets give up on this magical world to return to ours to get *checks notes* bombed. Perfect."
It only lasted 8 months and had 40k deaths for the whole country, but that's why they were sent out to the countryside.
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This has been fun, guys, but there's no Wi-Fi here, so we're gonna head back to hell.
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