Chronicles of Yawnia

Ok, so the special effects were nearly flawless. The action was very well executed. Fine. But WTF is with the near total lack of character development of Peter "the magnificent" and Susan "the gentle"? Is that how it was in the book? (Here's where I admit I haven't read it. I did have a significant portion of it -- maybe the whole thing -- read to me in school, which was weird, but I don't remember a lot of that.) Lucy and Edmond both had important roles to play, but the two elder children were mostly just standing around. (Ok, Peter did a lot in the battle, but that doesn't make him an interesting character.) The fact that Peter was elevated to the highest status among the four children seemingly by default because he was the eldest male may have seemed natural when and where the books were written, but in 2005 it seems arbitrary and wrong. This is a movie that's going to be shaping children's minds for years to come, and the shape it's squeezing them into bugs me. Grrr!