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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9045824" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I don't think the Pevensies are that out of place, but Digory and Polly are. The latter&nbsp; grew up before electricity was a thing, when horses were still the primary means of getting about London. Without the benefit of visuals, that can be hard to grok. (I say this 'cause the Granada TV version of Sherlock Holmes makes it seem perfectly reasonable.) There's a reason Victorian aesthetic has heavily shifted toward steampunk or gaslamp fantasy; it's far enough out of context to be genuinely fairy-tale-like. But the Blitz? We literally are seeing that right now in Ukraine. Sure, they don't have computers, but going on a camping trip will do that, and visiting a fancy mansion in the country isn't far off from an extended camping trip with better beds (and better bathrooms.)Give it another few decades, however, and yeah I can see it even for the Pevensies. When most folks no longer remember what it was like for most people to not have cell phones or Internet access, it'll feel really weird to see stories built when &quot;computer&quot; still meant a person who performed calculations. My dad, for example, was born while the series was being written, and while I had computers at home, most of the people I knew in grade school did not. It was only in middle school when everyone started having computers of their own and the Internet started its meteoric rise. I was taught (briefly) how to use a paper card catalogue, knowledge I never actually needed to put to use, and actually did occasionally look things up in a paper dictionary and a full (IIRC 23-volume?) New World Encyclopedia my parents owned.But now, the youngins that are just about to enter adulthood? They've never known anything but a world with YouTube and Reddit and MMOs and smartphones and MP3 players. Their children won't even know what a video tape is, nor why we call cinematography &quot;film&quot; when it's all digital (or whatever comes after digital, who knows these days.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9045824, member: 6790260"] I don't think the Pevensies are that out of place, but Digory and Polly are. The latter grew up before electricity was a thing, when horses were still the primary means of getting about London. Without the benefit of visuals, that can be hard to grok. (I say this 'cause the Granada TV version of [I]Sherlock Holmes[/I] makes it seem perfectly reasonable.) There's a reason Victorian aesthetic has heavily shifted toward steampunk or gaslamp fantasy; it's far enough out of context to be genuinely fairy-tale-like. But the Blitz? We literally are seeing that right now in Ukraine. Sure, they don't have computers, but going on a camping trip will do that, and visiting a fancy mansion in the country isn't far off from an extended camping trip with better beds (and better bathrooms.) Give it another few decades, however, and yeah I can see it even for the Pevensies. When most folks no longer remember what it was like for most people to not have cell phones or Internet access, it'll feel really weird to see stories built when "computer" still meant a [I]person[/I] who performed calculations. My dad, for example, was born while the series was being written, and while [I]I[/I] had computers at home, most of the people I knew in grade school did not. It was only in middle school when everyone started having computers of their own and the Internet started its meteoric rise. I was taught (briefly) how to use a paper card catalogue, knowledge I never actually needed to put to use, and actually did occasionally look things up in a paper dictionary and a full (IIRC 23-volume?) New World Encyclopedia my parents owned. But now, the youngins that are just about to enter adulthood? They've never known anything [I]but[/I] a world with YouTube and Reddit and MMOs and smartphones and MP3 players. Their children won't even know what a video tape is, nor why we call cinematography "film" when it's all digital (or whatever comes after digital, who knows these days.) [/QUOTE]

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