The Lindy and the Jitterbug! What a great way to ground the story in what was going on in the world at the time. I like that it is Jill who learned these things and then teaching the dances to Eustace and even the Head Boy.
Lucy, Edmund and the others in the dance hall... Lucy in trousers! I suppose that would be very modern by then. And Susan and her pilot boyfriend!!! I squee with the assumption that her beau had most likely served in the RAF. I LOVE that Edmund doesn't like him much at all either. It's so... Edmund.
Pole and Scrubb's reflections on the Pevensies were just as wonderful. They can SEE how different the Pevensies act, and see the shift when they are acting more like their true selves than under the cover of English men and women. From how Susan and her boyfriend act around each other, to the way the Kings treat their girls (or in Peter's case, his charming companion). And then these two youngest Friends of Narnia realize that they aren't ready to be as grown up as the Kings and Queens, who've had years and years of experience and were technically grown-ups after all.
Peter giving the Talk to Scrubb! About the necessary company of women! And Susan doing the same for Pole! There are no words to describe this except that I wish to have been a fly on the wall when those conversations occurred. And then the two of them trying to work out exactly where their relationship was going. And how Narnian the ensuing talk between them sounded.
And then right before they embarked on their last Great Adventure... Oh, this was so wonderful. They just gradually grew into it, and it was so natural. I could easily accept Jill/Eustace as a terrific pairing from the last section.
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Date: 2010-09-25 11:29 pm (UTC)Lucy, Edmund and the others in the dance hall... Lucy in trousers! I suppose that would be very modern by then. And Susan and her pilot boyfriend!!! I squee with the assumption that her beau had most likely served in the RAF. I LOVE that Edmund doesn't like him much at all either. It's so... Edmund.
Pole and Scrubb's reflections on the Pevensies were just as wonderful. They can SEE how different the Pevensies act, and see the shift when they are acting more like their true selves than under the cover of English men and women. From how Susan and her boyfriend act around each other, to the way the Kings treat their girls (or in Peter's case, his charming companion). And then these two youngest Friends of Narnia realize that they aren't ready to be as grown up as the Kings and Queens, who've had years and years of experience and were technically grown-ups after all.
Peter giving the Talk to Scrubb! About the necessary company of women! And Susan doing the same for Pole! There are no words to describe this except that I wish to have been a fly on the wall when those conversations occurred. And then the two of them trying to work out exactly where their relationship was going. And how Narnian the ensuing talk between them sounded.
And then right before they embarked on their last Great Adventure... Oh, this was so wonderful. They just gradually grew into it, and it was so natural. I could easily accept Jill/Eustace as a terrific pairing from the last section.
Thank you for writing such a great story!