Posted by: @starkat

For Netflix to throw this big of a monkey wrench into the storyline doesn't make a lot of sense unless they have completely missed the point of the Chronicles as a whole.

Yes. And the thing is, it's no big secret who Aslan stands for, especially not now. Back in the 1970s, maybe, but not in the 2020s, after several previous screen and radio adaptations of the Chronicles, and so many written commentaries on them, many of them by religious writers (including one very good one by the former Archbishop of Canterbury — The Lion's World by Rowan Williams — which is in itself a pretty big hint).

And Greta Gerwig herself attended a Catholic school and studied theology (and has spoken about this positively on several occasions), so there's no way I can believe she'd miss the significance of Aslan, even if some of the Netflix executives may have.

And if it is happening, and it's being done as a theological statement — since that's the only thing it could be, if it's not ignorance — then why do something so controversial and provocative that (it's already obvious from all the public reactions) will lose far more viewers than it gains??? It patently just does not make any sense...  

@starkat I'd already seen his comments, sent to me by a friend- from wherever he originally posted.  I just tagged the explanation on to clarify it, and hope one or more people see the point.

@courtenay it seems to be more prevalent in America. I read The Chronicles a few months after studying Pilgrim's Progress at University (English Literature was my major, and we had some very emphatic lecturers).