Okay I've gotta ask: did you also see the Narnia films Back In The Day when they were fresh in the cinema, and if so, was it also weird for you to see Ben Barnes become the face of the internet's favorite Morally Ambiguous White Men when you previously knew him as Prince Caspian? Because that was my experience and it was VERY weird lmao, I need to know if other people went through that.
yes i saw all the narnia films in theaters and okay SO. i have a complicated past relationship with ben barnes as caspian bc EVERYONE i knew esp when votdt came out was like obsessed with him for being hot i guess and also my sister participated in this and i was sworn to hate any man my sister pretended to like bc i'm a born hater. of course. so for years and years and years i was like "i don't like prince caspian, he sucks and his romance was stupid" <- forgot to mention. was also a born hater for suspian at the tender age of 7 because even then i could recognize that was not in the books and was adding literally nothing compelling to the movie or either character. (this all being pre-caspeter, btw. caspeter was a 2024 development.) (as was my newfound understanding of caspian as a character. i'm so sorry sir you did not deserve so many years of my ire).
so BASICALLY on top of having parents who were very strict about what i could watch and a tendency to be completely oblivious about what actor is in what movie and failing to keep up with movies/shows at all, the only other piece of media i've seen ben barnes in is actually shadow & bone, and when i learned that i was like "oh it's my good friend prince caspian. what is my good friend prince caspian doing as the darkling". i actually know very little about anything else he (or any of the other main narnia cast tbh) have acted in other than. i recall he was dorian gray. and he used to(?) do shakespeare. to me he'll always be caspian lmaoooo. similar experience to everyone i know associating hugo weaving with playing villains but i saw him first as elrond so i see him and i'm like oh my good friend elrond what are You doing here. yknow. i'm not confronted with it often but when i am it's like "wait no where's caspian. and also his accent."
