Wasn't Susan annoying...

What I want to know of how many people voted she was annoying happen to be an older sibling? I study WWII alot and frankly there was alot of responsibility. I mean, in the beggining of the movie you saw how Susan had to get Lucy and get her to the bomb shelter...any moment of that they could have been blown to smitherenes. Not only that, but how Ed and Peter escaped the house just in time...that was lucky. Any second they could have died. You have to see it from that perspective. She was given the responsibility of her siblings and they were sent away to a strangers house whom they didn't know to stay safe, and then to have everyones life threatened over agian in a foreign land...not an older sisters idea of fun. I'll tell you one thing...her acting was real. I would have acted like that and if you think really hard about it...you probably would have too.
 
BlueJay said:
I thought Susan was kind of annoying in the movie. Like when Peter accidentally let go of Lucy and Susan's let "what have you done!" and started yelling at Peter...I dont know..she was just kind of all mean and annoying in the movie. Demanding! and she was hardly ever like that in the book. But I did like this..

"I'm just trying to be realistic" "No, your trying to be smart, as usual"

realistic....logcial :rolleyes:
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i didnt think she was annoying she is just protective and trying to be realistic
 
BlueJay, its okay...I didn't mean to make you feel like we resented your opinoin...I'm sorry...I didn't mean to make you feel that way. :o I'm really truely sorry...
 
I don't think she was annoying per se... but I do think her continued insistance in leaving Narnia up to the scene in Aslan's camp may have been overdone just a tad... but she was the skeptical one. I don't think it came over quite as strongly in the book.
 
Aslan'sFriend410 said:
I don't think she was annoying per se... but I do think her continued insistance in leaving Narnia up to the scene in Aslan's camp may have been overdone just a tad... but she was the skeptical one. I don't think it came over quite as strongly in the book.
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Yes, well...translating a character's personality onto film can be challenging. You can see a lot more of course of the character's emotions and reactions in the movie. I didn't think Susan was annoying, maybe just overly cautious.
 
LifeMaiden said:
Yes, well...translating a character's personality onto film can be challenging. You can see a lot more of course of the character's emotions and reactions in the movie. I didn't think Susan was annoying, maybe just overly cautious.
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Yeah, tranfering a character there personality, description and espcially there emotion is extremely hard.
 
Susan's character

Susan was somewhat disbelieving and annoying in the book, and it came out that way in the film. In some ways, Susan is like me, in the sense that I always try to apply logic, analysis, and reason to problems I attempt to solve. While this usually works well for real world problams, it sometimes fails spectacularly. This is most often true when the solution to a problem turns out to be illogical and/or out in left field.

Susan could not easily come to grips with the failure of logic, just as I do. This made her angry, and her doubting somewhere between questioning and annoying.

Susan did believe though, when confronted with enough facts to overcome defective reasoning. Another way of putting this is that Susan did not have much faith....which is another of my great weaknesses. As an engineer, sometimes, it is extremely hard to take things on faith. (But God does surprise me, and I am then embarrased for my unbelief.)

Unfortunately, Susan's sense of reasoning and unbelief is so deeply ingrained in her, that when no longer immersed in the experience she starts to forget the experience was based on faith, and reverts back to her old ways. In PC, Susan is the last to see Aslan, and then kicks herself when she finally does see Him. By LB, Susan has 'fallen away'. She neither believes in Aslan, or (apparently) in Aslan's real equivalent in our world. Although the books never answer this question, it is my hope that Susan had an experience later in life that turned her back to God, and therefore, Aslan in Narnia. Here is an opportunity for some very creative fan fiction!
 
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