They had to change the order of the scenes. I doubt that they could ever have made a successful adaptation that stayed with the original sequence. That would have required half the movie to proceed in flashback, as Trumpkin brought the Pevensies up-to-date on how the adventure got started.
Also: yes, I thought that Peter and Caspian both suffered in the abortive castle raid. But that had to happen, too, in order to make the story believable. Both boys--and they *were* boys--had to grow up. Furthermore, Caspian needed a motive to muck around with a werewolf, a hag, and Queen Jadis, and Peter needed to be brought up short so that he could realize how mistaken he had been--and agree to send Lucy to get through to Aslan.
The one thing I've noticed, though, is that Susan is already shaping up to be a much stronger character in this film arc. Are they shaping up to bring her back as a friend of Narnia in LB?
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lulu_bu
15 years ago
No, they can't do that. If they ever get to make the Last Battle I expect Susan's story to remain but be embelished slightly to give it more reason that it got in the book.
I thought PC was fine really, it was a difficult book to bring to the screen and they did ok. I would have dropped the silly romance - fine ok Caspian may have had a thing for Susan but if they had stuck to the book they should have left her indifferant to his advances which would have worked better.
My big problem with PC was the character development (or lack of it) Edmund was absent for much of the film and he should have been used more and it was lacking in any kind of emotion for the most part. For example after the badly done falling off ledge moment we should have seen the Pevensies giving each other slightly more interaction maybe an 'are you ok' gesture rather than just charging off into another battle.
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