Overall, I liked it. Zooey needs a name change and acting classes.
The Tin Man, Glitch, Raw, Askadelia, etc., I think are pretty decent characters, acted tolerably well.
Yep. On balance, I think it was better than “just OK,” bordering on “good.”
I rather liked it. The redemption of Azkadelia was more than a little predictable, but it worked ok.
Am I the only one thinking that DG and Cain are totally hot for each other and are going to wind up married?
Sucked like a Hoover on steroids.
I would have liked a scene of Ambrose getting re-brained.
Squicky. Cain was a father figure, I think. Perhaps the new chief of security?
Nah, that’s what his son was for.
I got my 'lion and tigers and bears-- oh, my!" but no “Do not pay attention to the man behind the curtain!”
The ending was kinda what I expected except I thought The Queen, Toto and Ahomo (that’s why your father left us-- he’s Ahomo!) overarching plan was to save Askadelia and that the emerald didn’t really exist-- it was just a Mcguffin to get the two girls together so that they could hold hands.
Man, I so called the plot.
“How much you want to bet that the Evil Queen is DG’s sister?”
“…how much you want to bet that Toto is going to redeem himself somehow?”
“…how much you want to bet that Man Who Looks Like a Perfume Commercial Male is the Missing Dad?”
“…how much you want to bet that DG will save Dear Old Sis by the Healing Light of Whatever?”
I’m disappointed. Yeah, Baum is no Shakespeare, but they still could have done better. I feel so let down. (And, as a Special Effects major, some of the effects were so painfully obvious it’s not even funny.)
See – THIS is what’s wrong with this flick. It’s OK to do a “Dark Knight Returns” re-imagining of the movie (this has zip to do with Baum’s books), but in addition to re-interpreting everything, you have to actually have a story where something interesting and meaningful happens. If this is so obviously telegraphed, the story ain’t doin’ its job. Jackson’s re-make of King Kong was a pointed and interesting re-imagining of the story. Tin Man pretty much wasn’t.
You didn’t miss anything – it was a profoundly stupid and pointless thing for DG and everyone else to go seeking the emerald when they knew AskAGodzilla needed it before the eclipse. But if they didn’t, there’s no story.
[quyote]I would have liked a scene of Ambrose getting re-brained.
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Brain? Brain? What is Brain? You are not Morg; you are not Imorg.
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Ok, I was left with questions…
What WAS the mothr’s name? Was she Ozma, from the second Baum book?
And if DG was named after the first Dorothy, why did they use her last name too?(Gale was Aunt Em’s and Uncle Henry’s last name.)
Was it possible to replace Glitch/Ambroise’s brain, or could they just restore his memories, since it was obvious he’d grown a new brain.
I’m sure there are more…
Spock should be so lucky.
As with ep 2, I only made it thru about 1/2 of ep 3. My teen daughter tells me I missed the only truly creepy part, with the witch in the cave. She was thoroughly disgusted with my enjoyment of the titmonkey scenes!
Left when (I think) DG was stuck in the sarcophagus - went out to shovel snow. This a.m. my daughter said the ending was “Really lame.” In her words they spent at least 10 minutes with the sisters just holding hands and saying “Don’t let go! I won’t let go!”
Another observation by my daughter - what kind of family names the first kid Askadelia, and the second DG?
The best part of the show was the phone ad with the pony - well, at least the first couple hundred times… What did they have, something like 5 discrete ads they cycled through over and over?
I pointed out to Mrs. Plant, and was not slapped for paying too close attention, that when the favorite monkey died, one of the tats went away.
Probably has to do with the More Than One Kid Syndrome. My Former MIL told me that when you drop the first baby’s bottle, you re sterilize it and replace the formula. By the third kid, you wipe it off on the seat of your pants. Much easier to yell “DG!” than “Askadelia!” 
To reverse the famous limerick closer, She obviously didn’yt have a Spare Tat for Tit.
While this wasn’t overly unwatchably painful. It had too many “why the hell” moments that in the end sunk the production.
The princess’s name is really D.G. It isn’t a nickname, or short for anything. Just D.G.
Why in the firk does Dorothy, in the few lines she speaks, have an English accent. She’s from Kansas people, Kansas.
Dorothy was never a part of the royal line of OZ, she was just a girl who traveled there. This isn't Narnia.
If Ahomo ws a traveler from our world (he mentions flying in from the Kansas state fair) where did he get that name? Perhaps the same Kansas where little girls have English accents, also has men name Ahomo.
The needless "the last number" pause "to stop the evil machine" pause... then the bad guys run in. Look, if you have gone this far, you know what entering the last number will do, the extra sentence was just to allow the bad guys time to arrive. Stupid and contrived.
The magic monkey mammarys. Especially the way she would rip her shirt open to release them. Big laughs, but somehow I don’t think it was supposed to be. I could be wrong.
Overall the production design seemed like they had run out of money somewhere. Either that or they couldn't choose between steampunk, or 1940's, or just plain whatever they could dig out of the propshop.
The abrupt ending. After spending three nights and six hours with this silliness, I think I deserve more than everyone staring at sunrise.
Overall it almost seems like this was written by a committee that met once a week, traded ideas, but never bothered to see if all the pieces fit together.And after the bad guys were knocked out, why the big ‘You have to try to REMEMBER the last number!!’ when they could have just had Raw do his viewer bit again and extract it that way. That bit completely lost me.
My final thoughts.
Zooey was terrible. If she had camped it up like Ask, uh, Delia or played it kinda funny like Zipperhead, the show would have been 40% better.
They could have taken away 10 minutes of “Hold my hand! Don’t let go!” to give us a little more closure. I’m thinking ole Delia is gonna be persona non grata in the O-Z for quite a long time.
Maybe it’s because I liked Zipperhead but the scene when the took his brain was pretty sad.
Ahomo? Com’on, this MUST have been written as a dramedy only to lose the -medy in the translation.
This cannot be said enough times-- Zooey was plain awful.
People, the dad’s name was not “Ahomo.” It was “Ahamo.” As in “Omaha” spelled backwards, as in what was written on the Wizard’s balloon in the Garland film and as in the dad said he blew in from the Nebraska state fair. Am I really the only one who picked up on that?
Apparently. :smack:
I like to think I would have, but by the time Ahamo was revealed, I was in full-mock mode and was paying less attention to minutiae like specific pronunciation and more to wondering why Dorothy was English, why they were going to suck every bit of valid conflict out of the movie by splitting the witch/sister (which you could see coming a mile away), whether Askandyeshallreceive would remember all the horrible things she had done after the splitting, whether the Oz-ians would lynch her, and wondering aloud whether Cain was going to hit “6” when he heard Glitch say “SIXteen” and thus destroy everything they had worked for.
I did get the patented Happy Scrappy Hero GF Back-Of-The-Head-Smack-And-Time-For-Bed-Decree when I said, “While these four idiots are standing there staring into the sun, did anybody think to go tell the two armies slaughtering each other on the ground that it’s all pointless now?”
I can’t wait until SciFi “Re-imagines” The Flintstones. :rolleyes: