# SyFy's "Alice", (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258 "2009-12-07T01:01:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DarrellBray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@DarrellBray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrellBray)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258/21 "2009-12-08T02:29:15Z")
> [@cerberus](#): > > What’s next? A “revisioning” of Humpty-Dumpty? Maybe RD Moore can do that one. I’m sure it’s been done. AIW is one of the more ‘re-imagined’ books ever, I suspect. People have used it as the basis for creating entire mythologies. I’ll have to try and catch this this evening, so I can contribute an informed opinion. Hadn’t even heard about it before this thread. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258/22 "2009-12-08T03:56:30Z")
Roger Ebert says that anything with Harry Dean Stanton is good. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258/23 "2009-12-08T04:59:40Z")
> [@DarrellBray](#): > > I’m sure it’s been done. > > AIW is one of the more ‘re-imagined’ books ever, I suspect. People have used it as the basis for creating entire mythologies. > > I’ll have to try and catch this this evening, so I can contribute an informed opinion. Hadn’t even heard about it before this thread. I’m still hoping American McGee’s Alice will get made as a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258/24 "2009-12-08T05:11:45Z")
The twists in this episode are more twisty than in the first. I was actually half-expecting Alice’s dad to be Mad March, given the date of his disappearance. But his actual identity was even better. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258/25 "2009-12-08T06:35:31Z")
All in all, quite good. Needed more Cheshire Cat. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258/26 "2009-12-08T10:40:11Z")
I thought they missed an opurtunity with Tim Curry. He would have made an excellent Chesire Cat. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258/27 "2009-12-08T12:40:41Z")
I liked it. It left me with a warm happy feeling in my heart. ETA: I totally would have stayed in Wonderland, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258/28 "2009-12-09T15:59:58Z")
I like it up until the very end. I though everyone abandoned the queen rather quickly. It’s almost like they edited out ten minutes of dialog. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258/29 "2009-12-09T16:57:18Z")
I was thinking of TiVoing it. Is it as good as [Tin Man](http://www.syfy.com/tinman/)? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258/30 "2009-12-09T22:42:18Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I liked it. It left me with a warm happy feeling in my heart. Me too. I liked Alice and Hatter together quite a lot, so the ending was perfect if predictable. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258/31 "2009-12-10T06:44:03Z")
Alice and Hatter reminded me a bit of Buffy and Spike, which I found appealing. The set design kind of creeped me out. I wish they’d done a more steampunk/vintage victorian than Weird Moddish. DEFINITELY not enough Cheshire Cat, although the blink-and-you-missed-it Cheshire effect was the coolest thing in the movie. Would NOT recommend dropping any acid before watching this - you might end up on a ward somewhere (Tweedledee and Tweedledum = ::shudder:: ) I was kind of iffy on the Alice actress, too. She seemed to be too old for as naive as she was supposed to be. Seems like they cast the first buff woman who looked reasonably good in a blue minidress and red tights. I thought Hatter would have been better cast as the White Rabbit (loved the ponytails, though!) - the actor just has a rabbit-y look about him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/syfys-alice-open-spoilers/520258.md?page=1)