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#191801 Crowfall Fri, 11th May '12 7:11:07 PM

@turtle: Or hell, keep the knife and open up a new door whenever you need it, and ask the angels to clean up the specter it lets out, those assholes owe them. I remember after reading that book I'd thought of a half dozen ways around that bullshit ending within and hour or two, so why the hell did they have to get railroaded like that?

#191802 The Freeman Fri, 11th May '12 7:11:34 PM from Hialeah,FL.

I refer to that lion in Narnia as the Jesus Allegory Lion.

"All I ever wanted was the truth." Element of Ambiguity

#191803 gingerninja 666 Fri, 11th May '12 7:11:50 PM from Aboard The Damocles

@steve What's this Pony Fantasy 6?

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#191804 Lyra Heartstrings Fri, 11th May '12 7:12:31 PM from Bon Bon's house

@JT: I kinda am; they replaced the actor who plays Bravado, so I'm a bit leery of how it's going to turn out. It could be great, but I don't want to get too worked up.

#191805 Crowfall Fri, 11th May '12 7:12:33 PM

@ginger: Final Fantasy 6, but with ponies. All the sprites are different, and I think they've redone all the dialogue.

#191806 Japanese Teeth Fri, 11th May '12 7:12:55 PM from Meinong's jungle

@Ginger: Final Fantasy VI with all the characters replaced with ponies.

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#191807 Turtlebutter Fri, 11th May '12 7:14:13 PM from Baltimare

When I read Chronicles of Narnia all of the christian allegory was lost on me. I read it as a fantasy novel.

Maybe because I was older when I read HDM but that story was very anvilicious with its anti-god themes.

edited 11th May '12 7:14:23 PM by Turtlebutter

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#191808 colinispower Fri, 11th May '12 7:15:15 PM from Andromeda Galaxy

Evening. What's going on?

Don't make me fire Pinky's party cannon.

#191809 Pannic Fri, 11th May '12 7:15:19 PM

The anti-religion stuff was especially grating in the second book. Very blatant with that scene with the witches.

Hey, Pullman. The practice of using castrati? Blame the opera industry in Italy, not the church.

edited 11th May '12 7:15:51 PM by Pannic

#191810 stevebat Fri, 11th May '12 7:15:42 PM

I probably am the only one here who thinks "A Horse And His Boy" (Read the title CAREFULLY) is one of my favorite stories from the series

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.

#191811 Japanese Teeth Fri, 11th May '12 7:15:48 PM from Meinong's jungle

Up until the last book, the Narnia books work just fine if you ignore the religious elements.

Anyway, we should probably try to get back to ponies now.

I wouldn't call it my favorite, but it's definitely a good one.

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#191812 gingerninja 666 Fri, 11th May '12 7:16:36 PM from Aboard The Damocles

What's this about religious elements?

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#191813 Pannic Fri, 11th May '12 7:17:36 PM

CS Lewis was a Christian apologist (probably the most prominent of the last century), so he put religious themes into everything he wrote. The Chronicles of Narnia is a big ol' Christian allegory.

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#191814 Japanese Teeth Fri, 11th May '12 7:22:55 PM from Meinong's jungle

Still readable if you ignore them, though.

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#191815 Perpetual Lurker Fri, 11th May '12 7:23:32 PM

Chapters 9 and 10 up on the liveblog.

As for Narnia, as long as the story's good, you can make it as big of an allegory as you want, I don't care. I believe I've read them all up to The Silver Chair, then never bothered to finish the series. I did enjoy them all, though.

#191816 Turtlebutter Fri, 11th May '12 7:23:55 PM from Baltimare

Yeah definitely readable.

And amusing that he made things like fauns and satyrs able to be "good" when they are typically seen as devils or demons in christian mythos.

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#191817 Pannic Fri, 11th May '12 7:24:49 PM

Well, it's not a matter of being readable, it's just that it's there. I'm not complaining or anything. It's just there.

Y'know, I haven't seen any of the movies... only saw the old BBC thing with the hilariously bad special effects (seriously, makes the old Doctor Who look like Industrial Light & Magic).

Well CS Lewis did love his mythology, even if he thought it was all pagan and stuff.

edited 11th May '12 7:25:23 PM by Pannic

#191818 gingerninja 666 Fri, 11th May '12 7:25:40 PM from Aboard The Damocles

Now those are charged words right there.

Are you sure?

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#191819 Crowfall Fri, 11th May '12 7:29:18 PM

My grandparents had those old Narnia videos, and oh man were those effects bad. Pannic is right, old school Who is probably better effects wise.

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#191820 The Freeman Fri, 11th May '12 7:29:31 PM from Hialeah,FL.

Short story I found, Pinkie discovers the word "fuck" and uses it out of context.

Its that sort of story. .

edited 11th May '12 7:30:01 PM by TheFreeman

"All I ever wanted was the truth." Element of Ambiguity

#191821 storyyeller Fri, 11th May '12 7:29:49 PM from Appleloosa

Oh, so it's a film franchise, then? A new Daring Do movie is coming out pretty soon over here.

Oh I didn't know you had movies. Though I guess it makes sense given the film in hurricane Fluttershy.

If there is anything that you are alone in thinking, it's "thinking that you're alone in thinking of your theories".

#191822 Ace Of Scarabs Fri, 11th May '12 7:33:38 PM from Singapore

@Lyra: you going to watch that movie? Given that it is Daring Do, I bet Dashie's going to try and get tickets for it.

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#191823 Pannic Fri, 11th May '12 7:34:27 PM

Seriously, the old BBC series had some awful special effects. Worst I've ever seen in anything.

Rockin' theme tune, though.

#191824 storyyeller Fri, 11th May '12 7:35:10 PM from Appleloosa

A kiss? Wow, they are trolling the shippers.

If there is anything that you are alone in thinking, it's "thinking that you're alone in thinking of your theories".

#191825 ilsemmr Fri, 11th May '12 7:37:04 PM from Austin

@ story: Eeyup. I loved it. Bolin's face was the best/worst.

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