[wildwood]

you are definitely right about the rock throwing, breaking of the window. it was out of character for the children. and to be running to hide from responsibility, rather than the visitors coming through the house, made the children seem more like ungrateful vandals rather than escapees from war.

i know what you mean about father Christmas...felt the same way when reading the books.

but i sort of balanced it in my mind because it made it seem to me that lewis was interweaving both our mythology/fairy tales/legends with the fairyland that is narnia. more i thought about it, more i liked it. father Christmas is a tradition that transcends most cultures and, thus, creates a bridge between the two worlds.

so i don't mind it. i just wanted him to be seen as FATHER CHRISTMAS, rather than SANTA CLAUS, who has become a symbol of materialism lately, imo.

i can't believe i misspelled humorous in my last post. i must have been really tired.

[AnAmericanMother]

It wasn't rock throwing - it was a cricket ball that went astray. Accident. They got into the house, saw the cricket ball had wreaked havoc INside as well as the window, then approaching footsteps and they panic (I mean, would YOU want the redoubtable Mrs. MacReady to catch you flagrante delicto?)

I wonder if it was necessary, because in the original it was Mrs. Mac with a roomful of trippers . . . but that might have been harder to explain in a movie. In the book, Lewis notes that the children later couldn't explain their panic and thought that some magic in the house might have been chasing them into Narnia.