Prince Caspian

Just caught the movie and I must say it's much better than The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (of which I was sorely disappointed). At least there were real battle scenes. It could be the children are older now, and their acting more matured & refined, and also the cinematography is better and there's more depth in the content and characters.

However, the show was not really that close to the book. It got the main gist, but the sequence of events was quite jumbled up. Like when the horn was blown; when they met Aslan (it was actually when they were walking through the woods to reach Caspian); when they tried to call up the White Witch; when the children finally met up with Prince Caspian (it was actually when the 3 evils were suggesting the calling up of the witch); when Caspian found out that Miraz murdered his father, etc.

Also, Peter was not so brash; he was a more knightly & noble character and was not at loggerheads with Caspian. He indeed came to help Caspian claim his throne. In fact, Caspian held Peter in high regard.

There was also never the battle at the castle. The one who suggested the truce was not Caspian but Peter. Of course there was never the romance between Susan & Caspian (it was a children's book!). And much more.

Some scenes though were a bit like LOTR, like the trees coming alive to fight the Telmarines and the river water rushing downstream. Also, by the time they reached the river ford, there was actually no bridge already in the book. Coz Bacchus had already destroyed it (actually, the river god was trapped by the bridge and Aslan commanded Bacchus to released him rather than Asla commanding the river god to destroy the bridge).

I guess they changed the sequence & added the extra stories to spice things up. They also changed the characters a bit to bring out Caspian (thus downplaying Peter in terms of character...making Peter look bad).

I realised that because they changed the timing of when Aslan appeared to Peter, Peter had to appear as such an arrogant boy (from the part when he wanted some proof).

Well, on the whole, I still liked the show despite the discrepancies.