I'd like to apologize for that political thing earlier. It was really my fault.  

I'd also like to ask...of all the recent books and movies that have taken inspiration from the story of the Garden of Eden, have there been any of them that portrayed disobeying God and partaking of the forbidden fruit as ultimately a good thing? Besides the explicitly Christian ones, I mean? From what I can remember, they all tend to portray losing innocence and gaining independence as a painful (if that) but ultimately necessary for maturity. This is in part because artsy people, who make books and movies, tend to value exploration and freedom. If Netflix and Gerwig really are going to be true to the Christian themes of the story, they're doing something kind of unprecedented. 

Not that they can't do something unprecedented. I mean, the idea that doing certain things is bad isn't a specifically Christian idea. Every worldview I've ever encountered believed there was something or other that should never be done. And Greta Gerwig may be artsy but she's also a parent. One of my favorite bloggers once wrote that it's impossible to take loving care of little kids and also believe that love means letting someone have or do whatever they want. Along similar lines, in an episode of the Talking Beasts podcast, one of the podcasters said that Aslan's line from The Magician's Nephew about people defending themselves against everything that could do them good really resonated with him recently. What made it resonate? Being a parent of small children.  

Incidentally, while the story isn't explicitly alluded to in MN as is the forbidden fruit story, if Gerwig likes having a biblical narrative in the back of her mind while writing her stories, she might want to think of the story of Abraham almost sacrificing his son, which is also from the book of Genesis. (In the climax of The Magician's Nephew, Digory sort of has to sacrifice his mother. Once he shows he's willing to do so, it turns out he doesn't have to sacrifice her after all.)