Episode Details

257. By Aslan’s Mane, is Netflix Really Casting a Lady as the Lion?

Published 1 year, 3 months ago

Description

Breaking news. A new casting or creative announcement has got fans in an uproar. Alack, it must be a new day ending with the suffix -day. But in this case, the reliably rumored cast announcement is so strange, and so ghastly, and so out-and-out weird beyond the worlds, that it warrants us bumping our planned episode and focusing a whole other episode on this most bizarre and terrible news instead. We’re talking about the notion that a female actor (no shade on her) is rumored to be the new voice of Aslan.

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Quotes and notes

1. ‘Who is Aslan? Do you know him?’

Aslan is the King of Beasts, the great untamed Lion, creator of Narnia.
He’s supernatural and the Son of the Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea.
Some call him an “allegory” for Jesus. That’s not quite what he is.
Lewis called him a “supposal” for Christ. Think of this as an alter-ego.
So although slandering Aslan isn’t slandering Jesus, it’s pretty close.
Very basic to this understanding is that Aslan is a male Lion. He’s a He.
He’s the King (not queen) of Beasts. He has a mane. He roars and rules.
It matters, for various theological and natural reasons, that God is a He.

Aslan (left) gives a certain Netflix staff member a not-tame talking-to. (F

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