I genuinely thought RTD could capture lightning in a bottle twice. It's just been one long preachfest though. I really did want the show to try and recapture some of it's old glory but it's clear T.Davies is out of steam.

With the talk of Meryl Streep as Aslan it's become a possibility that they (the producers and Gerwig) either don't truly understand the essence of the Narnia stories or they want to wilfully destroy it and remake it in their own empty hollow progressive image much as happened with Star Wars, Doctor Who, Star Trek etc. etc. My money is on the latter.

Every single place in ROP is so 'diverse' that everyone ultimately lacks identity, flavour and culture. It's just one homogeneous bland mass. The exact opposite of what Tolkien wrote.