Oh, Narnia fandom. The only fandom I know of where you get reviewed for the theological correctness of your fiction. ::facepalm::

Never happened to you in Supernatural?

Never happened to you in Supernatural?

Heh, nope. For one thing, SPN fans don't care about, you know, real-world theology in a religious way. SPN doesn't have the same relationship to Christianity that Narnia does--Kripke never intended to be writing an allegory, after all.

For another, I stopped writing SPN about the same time the show went seriously down the whole angels-demons-God path, and I was never really interested in that whole area of the story.

Anyway, the point is that I got a nice piece of feedback that also included commentary about how there was some "heretical statements" in the story, that certainly Lewis would have found heretical as well as the anonymous commenter.

For one thing, SPN fans don't care about, you know, real-world theology in a religious wa

Not according to the people who flipped their nut at the pronunciation of Samhain (I've read at least 1 fixit fic for that episode), and theology started coming out of people's asscracks last S5.

But most of them don't treat the religion on the show as complimentarily showing anything they believe in. Doesn't mean they won't bitch about mythology and religious errors on show and in the fic.

Not according to the people who flipped their nut at the pronunciation of Samhain (I've read at least 1 fixit fic for that episode), and theology started coming out of people's asscracks last S5.

Point. And yet, I'm not explaining it properly. Some Christians read Narnia because it's Christian allegory, and they claim that it represents religious truth because it's Christian allegory. And that's part of the reason why Lewis wrote it.

SPN fans aren't (I don't think) finding religious truth in the show, that's not why they're watching it, even if they find the religious content interesting.

SPN fans aren't (I don't think) finding religious truth in the show, that's not why they're watching it, even if they find the religious content interesting.

This. Or that's the way I read it.

Narnia is a whole world I know so little about. I mean, I know Lewis's reputation as a religious scholar, and I know the religious meanings of the story, but I somehow skipped over the series as a kid, and never went back to it. It's fascinating -- I loved the first movie, and I think the layers of the story and symbolism are really interesting as well as being a damn good story -- but I can't imagine reading the series, or the fic, *as* a religious text. That's just a whole other level of ... something.

I can't imagine reading the series, or the fic, *as* a religious text. That's just a whole other level of ... something.

It's deeply, deeply weird, for someone coming at it as a Fan, rather than as a Christian. My relationship with the canon is, generally, disrespectful in a way that a lot of traditional Narnia fans cannot fathom.

I have seen really quite vanilla gen or het writers get flamed for describing a mermaid as having naked breasts. That's how traditional some of Narnia fandom is.

Now imagine the intersection of LJ-based live-action media fandom, with its RPF and slash and incest kinks, with that? Oy. So flammable.

So flammable.

I can imagine. Wow.

My mom has a deep faith -- she's a Stephen Minister and everything -- but a description of a mermaid's naked breasts would go unnoticed because, duh. She loved the sexy romances I wrote. And gave them to her friends at church!

Anyway. I'd like to read the books, maybe with Sara. On a shallow note, Liam Neesom as Aslan was just fantastic.

On a shallow note, Liam Neesom as Aslan was just fantastic.

Oh, yes. And I think they did a great job on the casting of the kids, especially in the first movie. Lucy, especially.

The battle scene still makes me laugh, though: the swords never get bloody. And no 11-year-old kid has the muscle-mass to do that kind of fighting, much less wear plate armor. ::shrugs::

The second movie has its charms, too. The third one goes wildly off the rails, though, and is primarily enjoyable mostly for Ben Barnes in tight pants. Oh, and the kid who was cast as Eustace, who is fantastic.