- it was like an even more extreme example of the mishandling Aragorn and particularly Faramir got in the Jackson LotR.

Yes - and I agree that it's frustrating. I liked Peter - he's not the most obviously complex of the characters in Narnia, but he's very likable and I do think he has enough depth to be interesting - or at least that you can extrapolate depth without doing such violence to the character.

Although I think I'll never be more annoyed than about what Peter Jackson did to Faramir... (Aragorn was bad enough, but Faramir...!)