Lewis

[altariel]

I really do like Lewis, which is as enjoyable and attractively made as Inspector Morse, but doesn’t have that miserable misogynist snob spoiling my fun. I like it even though they cruelly bumped off Lewis’ missus at the start of the first episode, just so that he could pretend he was mourning her and not Morse, which I probably shouldn’t like for all sorts of reasons.

I also like how the Lewis-Hathaway relationship replicates the Morse-Lewis one, only this time the over-educated misanthrope is the junior partner. It makes you believe that this dynamic stretches back and back, even unto the Middle Ages, where the medieval equivalent of a grumpy grammar school boy and a put-upon working class boy are forever together in the green wood, fighting crime.

Last week’s episode, “The Point of Vanishing” made much use of The Hunt in the Forest by Paolo Uccello. It made me think of Pauline Baynes’ illustrations for the Narnia books, particularly the end of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, when the young kings and queens of Narnia go on a hunt in a forest and vanish from the world. Lewis did an episode about the Inklings at the start of the season: I’m surprised that’s not turned up in the Morse-verse before.

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Pauline Baynes’ illustrations for the Narnia books

How did she manage to make Lucy dark and Susan blonde, when Lewis clearly says it's the other way around? And why didn't he notice and get it corrected?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I had never noticed either.

[owl]

Isn't Susan dark in the illustrations?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

My books are all packed away at the moment and I can't check.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. It's harder to tell than with Lucy, who is definitely dark where Lewis has her "gay and golden-haired". But in my copy of The Horse and His Boy, Susan looks pretty blonde to me, and he just as definitely says she is dark-haired (at the end of the first book).