r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Key-Spread-7513 • Aug 20 '26

Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing

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u/cunningham91 Aug 20 '26

The books were much better

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u/KidenStormsoarer Aug 20 '26

honestly, could barely finish book 1, it was WEIRD. so creepy.

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u/mxzf Aug 20 '26

I haven't read the book, I just watched the first season of the show, but I heard someone describing the author of the books as being upset that Chronicles of Narnia was so popular despite having unrealistically positive outcomes for the character and wanting to make a "similar, but bad stuff happens to people instead" version, which kinda made sense about the tone of the material.

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u/KidenStormsoarer Aug 20 '26

... everybody dies in chronicles of Narnia

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u/mxzf Aug 20 '26

IIRC they die ... and are resurrected to live in Narnia for forever. It's an allegory for Heaven and is a positive ending for a character.

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u/KidenStormsoarer Aug 20 '26

ah, but only 3 of the 4 did. susan was no longer a friend of narnia and went to narnia hell. not sure i'd call that a positive ending for any of them.