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This is not in defense of something I wrote, but of something that was written for me. A fic I enjoyed reading, where the author basically did exactly what I asked them to do. People don't usually make stuff for me, even when the request is anonymous, so I was pretty happy with what I got.

( So why do I feel like my appreciation for this effort is being mocked by some random other person? )

Snow White and the Huntsman takes place in the same universe as The Chronicles of Narnia. Only it didn't really end so happily (Neil Gaiman already got halfway there, apparently the prince in Snow, Glass, Apples is inspired by embraced the dark side!Edmund Pevensie). Both movies have a similar production design and both stories have a complex and elegant combination of Christian allegory and European pagan mythology.

The last queen of Narnia before Jadis was called “Swanwhite”. Perhaps she was Snow's daughter or descendent...or in “reality”, this story ended very, very badly. We don't really know how Jadis conquered Narnia and it's implied in “Huntsman” that Ravenna relies on illusion to trick the king into marrying her.

In “Huntsman”, the way Ravenna is running the kingdom is turning it into a non functioning place. She either doesn't know how to, or doesn't care about, sustaining the economy and populace in order to continue ruling it. Whatever people are left are probably going to pack up and leave for less nightmarish pastures. In the first Narnia story, there are no visible humans in Narnia, in fact, most of the animals they meet have never seen one. So since it is revealed in subsequent books that humans do exist in that world, where were they when the Pevensies first arrived? Well, they probably fled to more hospitable places when Jadis came.

Or they're different countries but Ravenna and Jadis are part of the same race.

If it doesn't take place on another planet, “Kings” could conceivably take place in the same universe as The Hunger Games. It's implied to be taking place in North America but all of the place names are different and apparently, they're still recovering from some sort of traumatic cataclysm. On “Kings” they have 21st century technology but they also have an absolute monarchy...in a clearly North American setting. The Hunger Games takes place much further into the future, at a time when North American society has collapsed so much that they don't even know that they used to be something else instead of thirteen districts, yet they also have even more advanced technology. It's the result of a terrible war, but Suzanne Collins doesn't tell us what the war was about, only that they're all being punished for it. People in the Capitol tend to have Roman names and their entire culture is meant to be a riff on the decadent Roman Empire.

Panem is King's version of America-Standing-in-for-Israel after it's conquered by their universe's version of Rome.

Oh, btw, the same guy who directed Kings is the director for Catching Fire.

To be followed by a Things Glee Does Right post.

( Things Glee Does Wrong )