Narnia (No spoilers)

I saw The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe today with a gaggle of callicrates' relatives. I liked the movie overall. I still wish James Earl Jones had done Aslan's voice but maybe (like Sir Ian McKellen being tired of playing bearded wizards and therefore not taking over Dumbledore's role), Mr. Jones was tired of playing wise lions and forewent. I have no problems with Mr. Neeson's performance of Aslan, and he did an excellent job. I guess I'm just a hopeless JEJ fangirl. Or something. The little girl they found to play Lucy... wow. They found Lucy.

Edmund's portrayal was spot on, and Peter's was very close. I was a bit unhappy with Susan's portrayal, and I'll need to re-read TLtW&tW again to see if they were just setting up for future events at the cost of her character in this book. One of Andy's elementary school friends who was best man at our wedding (and whose father performed the ceremony) is a lighting person for Rhythm and Hues, which rendered the show (or at least a large part of it; I'm a bit fuzzy on that), and he said the plan was for four of the books to be made into movies, if I remember correctly. He didn't know which three other than this one were to be made, but I'm guessing The Last Battle will be one of them.

As expected, there were some departures from the books. Most of them I didn't mind; I may be anal about adaptations, but I also understand that things need to be changed for timing, to explain things for people who may not have read the books, and due to the inability for some things to be transferred to screen properly. A few of the changes were strokes of genius which were so in the spirit that I could have seen Dr. Lewis suggesting them had he still been alive. There were only one or two I strongly disliked, and those not so much because they departed from the books. As noted before I'm ok with making changes where they're needed, but in those cases there was no need for them to do so.

I will absolutely watch the movie again if given a hint of a chance. Overall it was an excellent piece of work, and even though I had quite a few nitpicks apart from the complaints listed above, the overall whole is definitely worth it.

This is a no-spoiler post, so please don't post any in the comments. Do let me know if you might want to discuss further and I'll start a new thread with appropriate spoiler protection.

PS: Sign me up to go to Narnia if I get dresses like Lucy and Susan's.

Merry Mix-Up

[Note: When callicrates and I married we both were the same ring size. Both of us have lost weight since then, but our bands will take some doing to re-size, so we've been using ring sizers I can get easily through the folks who supply my jewelry-making habit. The engraving on the rings is identical, and we've not been married long enough to wear down the rings noticeably, even though we both wear them nigh on constantly. Unfortunately most ring sizers are meant for rings rather than bands, and therefore the only type I can get are flimsy at best. Even with the sizer, my ring has occasionally slipped off, though in the past I've always noticed when it happened. At any rate, while the bands are functionally identical, we've both had the sizers adjust slightly differently. It's not enough to notice unless we are looking for it specifically.]

A few days ago I took off my wedding ring and set in on a table or counter, thinking of how nice it was that I didn't need to worry about some kitty hiding it for me. I didn't see it again until this evening.

In the meantime I did the most thorough combing that our bedroom has probably ever had including removing blankets and the flat sheet; went through the bathroom a dozen times; checked the cupholder in the elliptical in case I had taken it off before exercising; checked every pocket on my pants and exercise shorts...repeatedly, and even if I hadn't worn them yet; and checked every surface in the kitchen, living rooms, craft room, and rooms I hadn't even been in. I even went out and checked any vehicle I might have been in, since Emily noted that she sometimes took hers off and put it in the little handle/cubby hole thingies; and called the folks we visited on the 23rd in case it had somehow fallen off there without my noticing.

We needed to do laundry tonight, and when I went to take the whites out of the dryer, there was a ring sitting on the lint filter. I went and showed Andy immediately. As I thought about it more, I wondered if it could possibly have been in my pockets, since the exercise shorts (washed with the whites) have fairly shallow pockets; not the type which could possibly hide a ring. I mentioned it to Andy, and he checked the rings. He determined that indeed he had mine. He probably put his in his exercise shorts pocket (also washed with the whites), then showered and put mine on. I never thought to check his pockets when I was turning places upside-down.