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With great excite­ment I watched this trailer for the first time–the sea of lilies, the star’s daugh­ter, the beach at the end of the world, the very appear­ance of the Dawn Treader, and the Dufflepuds…come majes­ti­cally to the sil­ver screen, and in 3D no less! It was on my sec­ond, and third, and fourth rewatch­ing with my fel­low C.S. Lewis friends, that we noticed a cou­ple of sig­nif­i­cant discrepancies…

• Where does Jadis (the White Witch) come in? The shot in the trailer seems to hint at some sort of vision, so I sup­pose it could be part of the Dark Island sequence, but some­how she looked more…corporeal…than that.
• Where’s Eustace and/as the dragon? Apparently he is in the movie, as an effects house has been con­tracted to pro­vide 200 shots of the dragon, but he’s not in the trailer almost at all (only one shot, in his bedroom).
• I was incred­i­bly excited to see the sea of lilies, and the beach at the end of the world. But where do Peter and Susan come in? They weren’t sup­posed to be there! (H/T: I noticed this one only after see­ing some­one men­tion it in a Youtube com­ment…) One other thing–is that Aslan’s moun­tain behind him in one of the final shots? I can’t wait for the Silver Chair!
• What’s the deal with Lucy and the snow? I pre­sume it’s meant to be another spell she exper­i­ments with, but I can’t remem­ber any­thing like that.

A friend of mine got to see some very advanced footage from VDT over two years ago, early in production–he stated that he was wor­ried about the final film, because it appeared that they have empha­sized the darker parts of the tale to the detri­ment of all else…

I will be very excited to see it, but I’m con­cerned about what the new direc­tor will do to the film, pos­si­bly devi­at­ing from the orig­i­nal in the dis­as­trous way Prince Caspian did (although PC at least stayed rel­a­tively con­sis­tent the­mat­i­cally.) December can­not come quick enough!

P.S. My brother cor­rectly iden­ti­fied the music swirling into the final sequences as “Heart of Courage” by band “Two Steps from Hell”. Can’t say I like the name, but it sure sounds awesome…