Copperfox
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The unconscionable carving away of most of the Professor's role (though the "Try me" was at least better than nothing) is just one symptom of something very odd. The LWW movie was supposed to be reaching out to people who had never read the Narnian books...and yet they omitted some of the very things that would have made the movie clearer to those very same uninitiated audience members!
I have said elsewhere that it would have been EASY for them to retain something of how the Professor spoke to Peter and Susan about the time paradox. This would even have set the audience up to understand the situation in PC better. But NO-O-O! They had to confine Professor Kirke--the very EMBODIMENT of intellect--to appealing ONLY to emotion with "She's your sister! You're a family!"
I have said elsewhere that it would have been EASY for them to retain something of how the Professor spoke to Peter and Susan about the time paradox. This would even have set the audience up to understand the situation in PC better. But NO-O-O! They had to confine Professor Kirke--the very EMBODIMENT of intellect--to appealing ONLY to emotion with "She's your sister! You're a family!"