Now that The Magician's Nephew adaptation is currently in production and we have a discussion about Greatest Hopes / Greatest Fears for the Adaptation of The Magician's Nephew, even though we don’t know where the series will go after that, it’s almost certain that it will end with The Last Battle. So I thought we have a discussion about what specific thing we are most hoping to see done well and what specific thing we are hoping they WON'T do or might even be concerned about. 

On that note, I'll go ahead and start with mine-

Greatest Hope: Emeth meeting with Aslan. It's actually one of  my favorite scenes in the book and even in the entire series. If they nail that quiet, profound conversation on the threshold of the New Narnia, with Emeth's humble confusion turning to radiant joy… well, that’s the adaptation succeeding at its hardest, most beautiful task. They *have* to get the tone right—no grand orchestral swell drowning it out, just simple truth spoken gently. Now they may either have Emeth recount it in flash back like in the book or play it out in real time. The latter would be more cinematic and moving if done well. Then of course, it will all depend on the director’s vision. But I am hopeful.

Greatest Fear: My greatest fear is probably that is how they're doing to address that whole thing about loyalty, friendship, and manipulation. The book actually deals a lot with manipulation, with Shift manipulating Puzzle into pretending to Aslan, then Shift getting manipulated himself by Rishda and Ginger. So the whole thing is about, "Should I be loyal to Aslan or Tash or should I just not side with either?" In the scene where Poggin recounts overhearing Rishda and Ginger talking about how they don't even believe in Tash or Aslan and discussing their plan to make Shift do what they tell him to do, and even rally up Narnians who don’t care for neither Aslan nor Tash, it shows the whole thing about manipulation. Though I fear that they might go overboard with it. I mean, manipulation is a relevant topic, but I don't want it to make it into like the main thing. So they should not go overboard with that. I think it should be all about loyalty and friendship, Tirian and Jewel sticking by each other, then Poggin being the only dwarf to show gratitude for being set free, and even Eustace and Jill sticking by when things seemed to get out of hand. So I fear that they might focus too much on manipulation and forget about the loyalty and friendship part.