The Wood Between | Narnia TV Spinoff AU
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wingedflightWhoops, I accidentally started imagining Narnia television spinoffs. Most of them are pretty undeveloped at the moment but I have fallen in love with the one I came up with for Magician's Nephew so thought I'd share it with you rather than waiting to see if I come up with any more. Maybe I'll make some more posts if/when any other good ones occur to me.
The Wood Between
There is a forest filled with towering trees and silver pools, and each of these pools leads to a world of its own. And just as the trees sleep, so too does any living thing that comes to find its way into this wood. Deep in the bushes lies a dreaming guinea pig, and curled up among the roots of a large oak is a girl, and there at the side of the pool is a boy…
Digory and Polly are the children of the wood, who wake amid the slumbering trees with no memory save for what might have once been a dream of another place. Each possesses a pair of rings that, following a brief experimentation, allows the children to travel through the pools to different worlds and back.
The series follows the children as they explore the wood and its worlds, falling into a number of adventures and meeting a range of characters along the way. Through their travels, the children slowly begin to piece together memories of the past — which comes with the growing suspicion that their situation is due to the meddling of a menacing magician. It is up to Digory and Polly to discover the magician and put a halt to his plan, and just maybe find their way home in the process.
(And possibly learn that home isn’t a place, but the people you share it with.)
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The series would begin with a world-of-the-week format, where each episode would see the children hop into a pool and have an adventure in a new world before finally returning to the wood at the end of the episode. Each of these adventures would contain some element that triggers a piece of a memory from their past.
Then, as the series develops and the children begin to remember more of where they came from and how they got to the wood, an arc would start to form around the mysterious magician. Who would, of course, turn out to be Digory’s Uncle Andrew, who sent the children into the wood to awaken a great sorceress from another world.
The children try to stop the awakening, only to inadvertently wake Jadis up instead. And so then it is up to Digory and Polly to clean up that whole mess. Although by this time, they would have the help of a number of recurring characters they’ve met along the way — like a friendly cabby driver and his talking horse, or the initially intimidating yet secretly caring “Aunt” Letty, or the wise-cracking jackdaw…
And in the midst of all the adventures and major story arcs would be some adorable domestic bonding times as Digory and Polly build a home in the wood. Like a treehouse, because that would be extra adorable.
The Wood Between
There is a forest filled with towering trees and silver pools, and each of these pools leads to a world of its own. And just as the trees sleep, so too does any living thing that comes to find its way into this wood. Deep in the bushes lies a dreaming guinea pig, and curled up among the roots of a large oak is a girl, and there at the side of the pool is a boy…
Digory and Polly are the children of the wood, who wake amid the slumbering trees with no memory save for what might have once been a dream of another place. Each possesses a pair of rings that, following a brief experimentation, allows the children to travel through the pools to different worlds and back.
The series follows the children as they explore the wood and its worlds, falling into a number of adventures and meeting a range of characters along the way. Through their travels, the children slowly begin to piece together memories of the past — which comes with the growing suspicion that their situation is due to the meddling of a menacing magician. It is up to Digory and Polly to discover the magician and put a halt to his plan, and just maybe find their way home in the process.
(And possibly learn that home isn’t a place, but the people you share it with.)
——
The series would begin with a world-of-the-week format, where each episode would see the children hop into a pool and have an adventure in a new world before finally returning to the wood at the end of the episode. Each of these adventures would contain some element that triggers a piece of a memory from their past.
Then, as the series develops and the children begin to remember more of where they came from and how they got to the wood, an arc would start to form around the mysterious magician. Who would, of course, turn out to be Digory’s Uncle Andrew, who sent the children into the wood to awaken a great sorceress from another world.
The children try to stop the awakening, only to inadvertently wake Jadis up instead. And so then it is up to Digory and Polly to clean up that whole mess. Although by this time, they would have the help of a number of recurring characters they’ve met along the way — like a friendly cabby driver and his talking horse, or the initially intimidating yet secretly caring “Aunt” Letty, or the wise-cracking jackdaw…
And in the midst of all the adventures and major story arcs would be some adorable domestic bonding times as Digory and Polly build a home in the wood. Like a treehouse, because that would be extra adorable.
