Prince Caspian Spoilers

On Jun 11, 2:07 am, Tim Bruening <tsbru....RemoveThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> Garondo Marondo wrote:
> > On Jun 10, 1:19 am, Tim Bruening <tsbru....RemoveThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> > > Garondo Marondo wrote:
> > > > On Jun 9, 7:11 pm, Captain Infinity <Infin....RemoveThis@captaininfinity.us>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Once Upon A Time,
>
> > > > > Garondo Marondo wrote:
> > > > > >I've never read any of the books.
>
> > > > > Philistine.
>
> > > > No one in my family read books when I was growing up, its a small
> > > > miracle that I ever got hooked on reading, but now I only like non
> > > > fiction.
>
> > > You were that poor?
>
> > What does money have to do with them not being readers?
>
> You can't buy books without money.

They didn't want to buy books, having the money to buy them isn't the
issue.
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Once Upon A Time,
Mr. Hole the Magnificent wrote:

>On Jun 11, 2:07 am, Tim Bruening <tsbru....RemoveThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>> Garondo Marondo wrote:
>> > On Jun 10, 1:19 am, Tim Bruening <tsbru....RemoveThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>> > > Garondo Marondo wrote:
>> > > > On Jun 9, 7:11 pm, Captain Infinity <Infin....RemoveThis@captaininfinity.us>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > > Once Upon A Time,
>>
>> > > > > Garondo Marondo wrote:
>> > > > > >I've never read any of the books.
>>
>> > > > > Philistine.
>>
>> > > > No one in my family read books when I was growing up, its a small
>> > > > miracle that I ever got hooked on reading, but now I only like non
>> > > > fiction.
>>
>> > > You were that poor?
>>
>> > What does money have to do with them not being readers?
>>
>> You can't buy books without money.
>
>They didn't want to buy books, having the money to buy them isn't the
>issue.

Outside of a book, a dog is Man's best friend.
Inside of a book, is a lot of words.



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Captain Infinity
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Captain Infinity wrote:
>
> Outside of a book, a dog is Man's best friend.
> Inside of a book, is a lot of words.

And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Derek Janssen (hey, sue me for quoting Groucho correctly)
ejanss1.DeleteThis@verizon.net
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On Jun 11, 2:10 am, Tim Bruening <tsbru....DeleteThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> laraine wrote:
> > On Jun 10, 1:21 am, Tim Bruening <tsbru....DeleteThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> > > laraine wrote:
> > > > On Jun 5, 6:37 pm, Tim Bruening <tsbru....DeleteThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> > > >  --
>
> > > > > But how can arrows destroy a large catapult unless they are fire arrows (which I did not see in this movie)?
>
> > > > The awakening trees took care of the catapults...
>
> > > I was asking why Peter didn't order the griffins to drop rocks on the catapults before the trees woke up.
>
> > Don't know, but I think it might be hard for a griffin to
> > carry something as large and solid as massive
> > boulders unless they were in a bag or tied on
> > somehow, and then you'd need someone on
> > board to manipulate all that too.
>
> In the movie LWW, the griffins carried large rocks and dropped them on the White Witch's troops, so I wondered why
> they didn't drop rocks in "Prince Caspian"
>

Do things ever happen the same way twice?
Just kidding--I'd need to see that part of LWW
again. I think this would place the griffins at
some risk.

C.
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Once Upon A Time,
Derek Janssen wrote:

>Captain Infinity wrote:
>>
>> Outside of a book, a dog is Man's best friend.
>> Inside of a book, is a lot of words.
>
>And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
>
>Derek Janssen (hey, sue me for quoting Groucho correctly)

Very good, you got the joke, have a pat on the head and a cookie.


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laraine6.RemoveThis@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>In the movie LWW, the griffins carried large rocks and dropped them on the White Witch's troops, so I wondered why
>>they didn't drop rocks in "Prince Caspian"
>
> Do things ever happen the same way twice?
> Just kidding--I'd need to see that part of LWW
> again. I think this would place the griffins at
> some risk.

In the DVD commentary, Adamson mentions an unspoken idea that Peter was
using his knowledge of escaping the WWII bombing Blitz at the beginning
of the movie to help with the battle...

If that's just occurring to you now, well, it did fly over most of the
theater audiences' heads at the time, too.

Derek Janssen
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and thus Derek Janssen inscribed ...
> laraine6 RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:
>>> In the movie LWW, the griffins carried large rocks and dropped them
>>> on the White Witch's troops, so I wondered why
>>> they didn't drop rocks in "Prince Caspian"
>> Do things ever happen the same way twice?
>> Just kidding--I'd need to see that part of LWW
>> again. I think this would place the griffins at
>> some risk.
> In the DVD commentary, Adamson mentions an unspoken idea that Peter was
> using his knowledge of escaping the WWII bombing Blitz at the beginning
> of the movie to help with the battle...
> If that's just occurring to you now, well, it did fly over most of the
> theater audiences' heads at the time, too.

What special knowledge? Hiding in the bunker?
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--till next time, consul -x- <<poetry.dolphins-cove.com>>
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On Jun 16, 2:51 pm, Tim Bruening <tsbru....RemoveThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> larai....RemoveThis@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Jun 11, 2:10 am, Tim Bruening <tsbru....RemoveThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> > > laraine wrote:
> > > > On Jun 10, 1:21 am, Tim Bruening <tsbru....RemoveThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> > > > > laraine wrote:
> > > > > > On Jun 5, 6:37 pm, Tim Bruening <tsbru....RemoveThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> > > > > >  --
>
> > > > > > > But how can arrows destroy a large catapult unless they are fire arrows (which I did not see in this movie)?
>
> > > > > > The awakening trees took care of the catapults...
>
> > > > > I was asking why Peter didn't order the griffins to drop rocks on the catapults before the trees woke up.
>
> > > > Don't know, but I think it might be hard for a griffin to
> > > > carry something as large and solid as massive
> > > > boulders unless they were in a bag or tied on
> > > > somehow, and then you'd need someone on
> > > > board to manipulate all that too.
>
> > > In the movie LWW, the griffins carried large rocks and dropped them on the White Witch's troops, so I wondered why
> > > they didn't drop rocks in "Prince Caspian"
>
> > Do things ever happen the same way twice?
> > Just kidding--I'd need to see that part of LWW
> > again. I think this would place the griffins at
> > some risk.
>
> Wouldn't the griffins be at risk no matter what they are carrying?
>
> Why not have some griffins carry archers and other griffins carry rocks?

Or bags of medium-sized rocks with slings (with
someone on board)? Don't know if those would
be powerful enough.

>
> Could a griffin carry a shield to protect it from arrows?

Sounds possible, or maybe it could
wear armor.

C.
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Backlogged. Sorry.

In article
<0e97447f-4659-4579-ad7c-ab6226bc96f4.DeleteThis@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
laraine <lariadc.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I had been worried about how they would
>present the 'evil' dark-skinned Telmarines,
>but I think it came off reasonably well. They
>had Spanish(?)-sounding accents,

During the movie, after hearing those accents, I suddenly thought

"Hello. My name is Caspian the Tenth. You killed my father.
Prepare to die."

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Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd.DeleteThis@panix.com
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Hmm, VERY old posting that I'm resurrecting. Sorry, but I just saw
the movie.

In article <48410229.E19624A6 DeleteThis @pop.dcn.davis.ca.us>,
Tim Bruening <hayesstw DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
>The Telemarines using giant catapults to hurl large stones at Prince
>Caspian's forces. Why didn't the Telemarines hurl fireworks at
>Caspian's troops?

When you have magazine-fed full-automatic trebuchets with a rate of
fire that would have made any US Civil War artillery commander turn
puce with envy -- who the hell needs explosive shells?

Anyway, the first two rocks that hit seemed (from the column of dust
and loud noise) to have blown up. Good thing the Telmerines only had
contact-fused exploding rocks; if they'd had timed-fused exploding
rocks (or, worse, radar-fused exploding rocks, or radar-fused napalm
rocks, or radar-fused rock-air explosives) they could have
shrapnelled the Narnians to death.

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