The reason she doesn't go to Aslan's Country has nothing to do with all that. It's because she ISN'T DEAD. Susan is, in fact, the one and only person who makes it out of the series alive, and Lewis himself said (extracanonically) that there was no reason she couldn't get to Aslan's Country later on, after her actual death. So no, she was not condemned to "have fun in hell" for not wanting to associate with "talking Christian animals." She was the one who listened to Aslan -- about learning to live in her own world, about leaving the Rings alone -- and thereby survived.
YES. The best part about Susan's story arc... she stays, and likely to make a difference because she lives.
(To be fair, I don't think the post was calling Susan a terrible character, so much as criticizing how Lewis ended up presenting her - that's what the "is a great archer, but is present in none of the battles" seems like to me - vs. the film presentation, i.e. "feminine but not revealing clothing".)
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Date: 2014-10-13 09:19 am (UTC)YES. The best part about Susan's story arc... she stays, and likely to make a difference because she lives.
(To be fair, I don't think the post was calling Susan a terrible character, so much as criticizing how Lewis ended up presenting her - that's what the "is a great archer, but is present in none of the battles" seems like to me - vs. the film presentation, i.e. "feminine but not revealing clothing".)