I wish my creative abilities approached yours. I leaned towards Mrs. Plant who was into her laptop despite wanting to see flying simians and remarked, “She’s got monkeys coming out of her t-ts.”
The sorceress tortured Dreyfuss into showing that the travellers had gone to the Northern Island.
The travellers went to the northern island, which DG axed into remembering robo-dad’s stories. They went upstairs, where the lion sensed bad things had taken place, and turned a mirror into a wayback machine. The mirror revealed that the sorceress was DG’s older sister, and had killed DG, whereupon their mom resuscitated DG somehow. (This scene was REALLY awkward, even by this show’s standards!)
Sorceress and crew came into the room. Everyone ran but Tin Man, who stayed to duke it out with the long coats. At the end, the main henchman (zero?) shot the tin man, propelling him backwards through a window where he plunged through the lake’s frozen surface. Last we saw him he was sinking beneath the ice.
Meanwhile, downstairs the sorceress let loose the cleavage monkeys who pursue the trio amid the columns and capture them, carrying DG back to their mistress. Not sure if anything else happened right at the end, but that’s the gist of it. Flicked it off before seeing the previews of the next ep.
Nobody melted yet?
Oh, I guess that comes at the end. 
You must be thinking this is in a different genre than I am (i.e., “cheesy Halmi sciffy”). I thought it (hair & makeup) was mediocre, but not awful.
Unless you mean the “re-imaged” munchkins. I don’t know they could’ve made that costuming worse than the original, but damn if they didn’t figure how to.
edit: Also on costuming: I’m really hoping that the Tin Man had a gun in his pants, and wasn’t just really happy to see DG. And everybody else. But he was workin’ those pants with that booty of his.
Thanks. I was initially tempted to going with boob-boons, but was swayed by my personal desire to be that actress’ cleavage monkey.
I really enjoyed it overall.
I don’t particularly think the sorceress is anything other than a pain in the butt. She seems too plastic to me. (or metal) Having read the books far too many decades ago, the darkness seems more like the books. I do like the twists of the scarecrow, tin man and cowardly lion. I did not expect it to be like the movie. Then again, I liked The Wiz too. I’m a bit of an Oz softy and tend towards liking most anything that pays homage.
I swear to god though, if someone ever comes out with oz babies, I will kill someone.
(Yes, I have the Polly Pockets Oz set)
I am leaving costumes out of this, as they were done right. Hmmm… Trying to define ‘genre’ here, and if you look at other SciFi type stuff with Sorceress styles and the whole fantasy/adventure type stuff, the women have abslutely stunning hair and makeup, and D.G’s hair is so bad as to be frightening. Her sisters costume is excellent, but the make up and hair are not even up to average standards of weekly syndicated fantasy and sci-fi shows.
I found the contrast between D.G. and her sister’s hair/costuming to be just right. Azcadelia’s hair I found a little ridiculous, but then I prefer real/historical-inspired fantasy to . . . whatever this is. Think Gormenghast.
This miniseries is at least better than “The Mists of Avalon”, for which the costuming and hair was absolutely horrible.
I’m watching this in bits and pieces. I DVR’ed the first episode and watched about half of it. I think it would have been better served if it came out on three consecutive weeks, instead of three nights, at 2 hours per episode. I’m recording them and watching them at a more leisurely pace.
I thought she was pretty bad in Hitchhikers Guide as well. (the whole movie was rather rediculous, but her acting was particularly annoying)
The thing that ticked me off was when her and Glitch were trying to escape the ‘munchkin’ area and he’s warning her to be careful so they aren’t seen. And she is shouting to him “over here, there’s a rope!” and other stuff. Umm…with bad guys that close don’t you think they might hear you?
I’m kind of liking it. It’s really stoopid, but then, “The Wizard of Oz” isn’t exactly “Hamlet.” Zooey is wooden as all hell, but at least she’s got interesting eyes. Asafoetida, or whatever her name is, isn’t any better, but she’s got monkeys flying out of her tits, so who cares? The only thing that really bothers me is that the baddies are quite bland (aside from the aforementioned monkey house), and about as menacing as the Ming character in that gawdawful Flash Gordon series.
Hey! That’s my line!
You took the Orthodox Jewish approach and put a dash in place of the “i.” While reverence for extreme cleavage is laudable, it cost you the copyright!
Eh, it’s okay. I don’t expect much from Sci-Fi these days when it comes to anything they do.
Still, it’s better than “Riverworld” was. I’ll probably finish it out.
Goyisch lawyers!
Sure puts a different spin on the line, “Pshaw, right. And monkeys might fly out of my butt!”
So…did we see how they get back into her, er, cleavage?
They’re saving that for the unrated extended edition on DVD.
On Earth, we have the titmouse and the chipmunk. In the OZ, they have titmonks.