I’m a very positive person, but that doesn’t mean I have some concerns.

My list of concerns(not in order):

1. The Dark Island
2. The Victory at the Lone Islands
3. Aslan’s Role
4. Extra Plot and Theme of the Movie

I’m going to post one of my concerns at a time so I don’t have a massive post.

I’ll start with the Dark Island.

Surprisingly the White Witch is the least of my worries this time around.

I think there needs to be three things in this scene and I'm concerned they will not be included or down played in the movie, especially after seeing the trailer.

1. Hopelessness:
I’m worried that this scene will not have as deep a sense of hopelessness. In the book, the whole ship starts going into a huge panic after they realize that it is their nightmares that come true.

“Do you hear a noise like…like a huge pair of scissors opening and shutting…over there? Eustace asked Rynelf.
“Hush!” said Rynelf. “I can hear them crawling up the sides of the ship”
“It’s just going to settle on the mast,” said Caspian.
“Ugh!” said a sailor. “There are the gongs beginning. I knew they would.”
Caspian, trying not to look at anything ( especially not to keep looking behind him), went aft to Drinian.
“Drinian,” he said in a very low voice. “How long did we take rowing in?-I mean rowing to where we picked up the stranger.”
“Five minutes, perhaps,” whispered Drinian. “Why?”
“Because we’ve been more than that already trying to get out.”
Drinian’s hand shook on the tiller and a line of cold sweat ran down his face. The same idea was occurring to everyone on board. “We shall never get out, never get out.” The stranger, who had been lying in a huddled heap on the deck, sat up and burst out into a horrible screaming laugh. “Never get out!” he yelled.

2. Silence: Not really sure how to explain this.
In the book everything is all in chaos until:

“Look!” cried Rynelf’s voice hoarsely from the bows. There was a tiny speck of light ahead, and while they watched a broad beam of light fell from it upon the ship. It did not alter the surrounding darkness, but the whole ship was lit up as if by searchlight. Caspian blinked and stared round, saw the faces of his companions all with wild, fixed expressions. Everyone was staring in the same direction: behind everyone lay his black, sharply edged shadow.

Everyone goes from yelling and running and hidding, to a dead stop. Everyone is staring and is fixed upon this light, all has gone from screaming and shouting of horror and fear to pure sillence as they watch this mysterious light. I can just picuture the darkness and noise and then that light appears out of no where and then there is silience.

3. Aslan saves them: Something has really been bugging me since seeing the trailer. What if they have Ramandu’s Daughter save them instead of Aslan?
My worry is they will replace the Albatross with her star form. I HOPE I AM WRONG!!!! It has to be Aslan that saves them!

Lucy leant her head on the edge of the fighting-top and whispered, “Aslan, Aslan, if ever you loved us at all, send is help now.”

But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, “Courage, dear heart,” and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan’s, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.
In a few moments the darkness turned into grayness ahead, and then, almost before they dared to begin hoping, they had shot out into the sunlight and were in the warm, blue world again. And all at once everybody realized that there was nothing to be afraid of and never had been.

My fear is that they will down play this scene and it will not have that great impact like it did when reading it in the book. It has so much potential to be a great and memorable scene.
And another thing, I always pictured it pure black, like you couldn’t see your own hands in front of you black. So I really hope that it will be darker then what it was in the trailer.

Anyways that’s the first of four things that concern me, I’ll post my next concern in my next post.

I thought this thread was an interesting idea, so I thought I'd start a thread to compliment it. Looking at both threads will enable us to very quickly get a sense of what NWebbers are liking and not liking.

It won't complement the "positives" thread, which was started to balance the large number of negative posts in the Official Trailer Discussion thread.

This does not come across as a respectful response to the member who opened the "positives" thread. That thread, by the way, was originally closed by mods as we already had a thread to discuss the trailer; it was re-opened because it was accepted that members needed a place to make positive comments without being drowned out by negative ones.

The Official Trailer Discussion thread is still available for negatives and positives alike. Please continue to use it (if you want to gather information, it will be more complete if you use the OTD thread along with the Positives thread).

@ 7Chronicles, sorry but I think glumPuddle meant this to be specifically for the trailer. You will find other threads you can discuss these concerns in. Try this one for instance

For other aspects of the film, there are dozens of threads open - please look on the list of topics (the list has several pages). Each topic should have its own thread, rather than one that has all the negatives you can think of.