For some reason, imagining Oz as part of Lovecraft’s Dreamlands amuses me greatly.
My apologies (particularly to JohnT and Pepper) for any redundancies. Apparently no force can halt an idea whose time has come.
Forgive me for mixing continuities, but the discussion about Dorothy waking up from a dream of Oz, (or into a dream of Kansas) reminds me of the Buffy episode (Normal Again - Wikipedia) in which she wakes, briefly, from a schizophrenic delusion, only to voluntarily return to her madness. Alternatively, she is poked by some demon that gives her an illusory wish fulfillment- that is, she’s only mad, and not the Slayer.
I’m the proud owner of nearly a complete set, but, as mentioned, I was specifically talking about the movie.
This point always bugged me. Just why did the Wicked Witch of the West want those shoes so badly anyway? Granted, the shoes were capable of teleporting Dorothy back to Kansas (it was NOT all a dream, dammit!), and that might have been pretty handy being able to instantly zip somewhere instantaneously. But she already had a flying broomstick! Where was she planning on going that the broom couldn’t get her there, but the slippers could?
You’re assuming that the teleportation is the only power the slippers have. Plus, it’s possible that even Glinda doesn’t know the full extent of the slippers’ power. “Keep tight inside of them, they must be very powerful or she wouldn’t want them so badly.”
Hmm, parallels to the Lord of the Rings suggest themselves…
Wraiths on wings/flying monkeys, my Precious/ my pretty?
You don’t have siblings, do you?
Alternate theory- Because they were really her slippers all along. WWE borrowed them and never returned them. That bitch!
Alternate Theory #2- Because they represent the love that Frexpar, the father of Fabela(AKA Elphaba AKA WWW) and Nessarose (AKA Rose AKA WWE) withheld from Fabela all those years while heavily doting on Nessarose and Elphaba has been jealous all this time.
Alternate Theory #3 Because WWW knows that some wicked ass joints are hidden in the heals.
They’re The Red Shoes! Everybody wants The Red Shoes! Even if the end result is losing your feet.
Damned right. If Dorothy would have started kicking munchkins they would have vaporized into a fine, lollipop scented mist on the spot. Hell, the damage she did to the yellow brick road just by skipping took 3 years and a bond referendum to repair.
W.C. Fields was first offered the role of the Wizard, but he turned it down. I often wonder how the movie would have turned out if he had accepted it. How would he have delivered this script in his drunken, slurry, self-aggrandizing drawl:
Why, anybody can have a brain. That’s a very mediocre commodity.
Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth,
or slinks through slimy seas has a brain! Back where I come from we
have universities - seats of great learning - where men
go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep
thoughts, and with no more brains than you have.
But - they have one thing you haven’t got - a diploma!
Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universita Committeeatum E Pluribus Unum,
I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D.
But anyway, I’m thinking they used the same script written for W.C. Fields. He of course would have nailed Glenda. Then never call or write her afterward, which would have angered her, so she sent Dorothy and her stooges to Oz to pester him.
I’ve always that the ‘good’ witch manipulated Dottie into creating a huge power vaccume in OZ that Glinda would just happen to fill.
“Oh, you’ve always had the ability to go home.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“You wouldn’t have believed me.”
“WTF are you talking about bee-yatch! My house flies, with me in it from sepia Kansas to technicolor OZ, falls on a witch, I’m surrounded by freaking munchins, you fly in on a pink bubble and that green bitch just dissappeared in cloud of smoke, after threating to kill me and my dog, and you didn’t think I would BELIEVE I could go back home by clicking my heels?!?! SICK HER TOTO! SICK BALLS!”
She’d just pink-bubble the poor dog and have him dropped from 30,000 feet… if he survives the ascent, that is.
So that means the bad old lady is still going to be after Toto? :eek:
Remember though, in reference to Glinda the Good, that “Baum did not record her other title, Glinda the Ambiguous.”
Posted just because I want to see if anyone catches the reference.
Wait! Glinda has ‘balls’?? She’s a MAN??? Glinda the Good Witch is really just a drag queen?? OMG that’s just…well, actually it’s totally believable. And it makes me chuckle.
Oh, yeah. I definitely know quite a few drag queens who’d kill to actually be Billie Burke…well, Billie Burke still alive and fairly young, not Billie Burke a-mold’rin’ in her grave.
*also a Stand By Me reference.
Someone needs to work in a good reference to Ed Wood’s “Glen or Glenda” now.