Joshua Gross’s Reviews > The Last Battle > Status Update

Omg. I've unintentionally picked something to read that certainly matches my mood right now

This train business is concerning

No one can describe a taste? You must not be trying very hard

Boy Susan sure is being vilified for being a young woman with a young woman's interests...

The dwarfs: "Keep it up, boys! All together. Carefully. We don't want darkies any more than we want monkeys or lions or kings"

Tirian is just full of good advice. To Jill, "if you must weep, sweetheart, turn your face aside and see you wet not your bow string." To Eustace, "Do not scold like a kitchen girl..." This was just after they watched a bunch of Dwarves slaughter a herd of talking horses

Wow, a dwarf in the crowd just called the Calormarene a 'darkie', an overt use of racialized language in a series that has often dipped into racism

Eustace voices his concern they may have been in a train accident just as arriving in Narnia

The invasion and take over of Cair Paravel happened off screen, that was certainly a choice

Oh, we got a little more Narnia history, including a mention of King Frank and why everyone thought those islands in Dawn Treader were part of Narnia