I guess it goes against the text a little because Lewis clearly wants us to think that Narnia is the happy ending (but then since when do we care what the author intended?) Guess you haven't heard from those who say that if you don't adhere to Lewis' medieval and Christian allegorical intent, you should just go write somewhere else?
Also, on the idea of Peter angry that Susan doesn't go along with them to get the Rings because Aslan told them they couldn't go back, SQUEEEEEE! what an utterly awesome idea! That's just.... well, gosh, really deserves some more thinking.
As for the friends point, isn't the idea of giving Susan a friend a part of the idea behind your x-over with Mary Poppins? Do I have the right author, even? I can be a real flake about who is writing what and I read so much I forget where I've been. :p
In any event, I admit it never occurred to me that the Pevensies would not have friends in Spare Oom. I see them as all being very social people, extroverts in the sense that they are energized by being around others. Edmund may be the exception, but that's just because he's ornery and doesn't like being "on" except when he chooses and Susan may be more guarded. But then, I'm up to my eyeballs in Spare Oom and Narnia OCs and I like creating characters for them to interact with. I suppose once again I've blundered all unknowing into things in Narnia that just Are Not Done.
The whole point of things is that they aren't sitting around waiting for the train crash. That means they have to be out DOING and I similarly see Digory and Polly as really setting an example here -- not sitting at the window waiting to die but going out and working to bring Narnia here. I see the whole purpose behind it as apostolic.
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Also, on the idea of Peter angry that Susan doesn't go along with them to get the Rings because Aslan told them they couldn't go back, SQUEEEEEE! what an utterly awesome idea! That's just.... well, gosh, really deserves some more thinking.
As for the friends point, isn't the idea of giving Susan a friend a part of the idea behind your x-over with Mary Poppins? Do I have the right author, even? I can be a real flake about who is writing what and I read so much I forget where I've been. :p
In any event, I admit it never occurred to me that the Pevensies would not have friends in Spare Oom. I see them as all being very social people, extroverts in the sense that they are energized by being around others. Edmund may be the exception, but that's just because he's ornery and doesn't like being "on" except when he chooses and Susan may be more guarded. But then, I'm up to my eyeballs in Spare Oom and Narnia OCs and I like creating characters for them to interact with. I suppose once again I've blundered all unknowing into things in Narnia that just Are Not Done.
The whole point of things is that they aren't sitting around waiting for the train crash. That means they have to be out DOING and I similarly see Digory and Polly as really setting an example here -- not sitting at the window waiting to die but going out and working to bring Narnia here. I see the whole purpose behind it as apostolic.