Yeah, I don't even think the extended cut's aired on TV the way the Harry Potter films have. A shame. The extra beats added for most of the film don't add much, but all the stuff added for the Battle of Beruna makes it flow much better than the theatrical. Because of that, it's my preferred version, too.
I just wished that cut added the moment found in the video game of Edmund saying "hide and seek is for children" as it makes Peter's reference to it later on less random. The game also had Lucy hug Tumnus upon being reunited at the end and before Susan joins in. Plus, we still haven't seen the celebration that followed the coronation that's glimpsed at in the trailer.
Besides the extended cut, the Blu-ray fails to carry over the PiP viewing mode and the excellent C.S. Lewis documentary, so I'll never let go of my 4-disc DVD set because of that. Still, at least Narnia's treated better on Blu than most of the Walt Disney Animation Studios films are nowadays with their dumping most of prior edition's supplements to streaming (and some don't even make it to there at all).
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