Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4185-4189 (27th - 31st, January 2020)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: hakko504 on 25 Jan 2020, 12:22 ---I've watched a few more than those on the list:
The 2013 Oz the great and Powerful (James Franco as the Wizard, a sort of prequel to the MGM movie)
ABCs Once Upon a Time ended up in Oz as well for a few episodes.
The muppets made a truly bad interpretation of the MGM movie. Now, I like the muppets, but the movies have been of varying quality, from Treasure Island and a Christmas Carol, which I love, to the Wiz of Oz which, as I already mentioned, is really, really bad.
But my favourite Oz is the one from 1925 with Oliver Hardy (of Laurel & Hardy fame) as the Tin Man.
Sidenote: A 1914 version also survives and is available on YT, but I haven't had time to sit down and watch that one yet.
As for the characters, Claire would be Dorothy, Marten as the Lion, Pintsize as the Tin Man, Tai as the Scarecrow (I almost chose Emily, but her problem is probably too much brain rather than the lack of one).
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Hmmmm.......Maybe Ozma or one of the Good Witches for Emily? May could be a foul-mouthed Scraps or a gender-bent Nick Chopper.
Crap. Forgot about the 1925 one.
Though I was going for versions that played around with the concept (some much more than others). Which is why I hadn't included Disney's Return to Oz.
I wasn't sure about including the Once Upon A Time episodes since there's so few of them in a much larger plot. I deliberately left off Muppets and Oz: tG&P. Whoever wrote the screenplay very probably didn't read any of the books. I'm pretty sure at least one of the Famous Fourty° was a prequel. Even if there wasn't, there's still a great deal to draw from that was barely touched.
EDIT: No, I haven't read them all.
EDIT2: I had to look up the Good Witch of the South's name. Turns out I forgot that was originally Glinda's title. The Good Witch of the North was original unnamed by Baum (along with the Wicked Witch of the West) and was named "Tattypoo" by Ruth Plumley Thompson.
Gyrre:
:-o :-o :-o
I forgot to include The Wiz in the poll!
It's the good musical adaptation. I might just clear the poll results, rearrange somethings and add two more options so I can include it.
[Starts banging head against desk]
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: hakko504 on 25 Jan 2020, 12:22 ---As for the characters, Claire would be Dorothy, Marten as the Lion, Pintsize as the Tin Man, Tai as the Scarecrow (I almost chose Emily, but her problem is probably too much brain rather than the lack of one).
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No, Pintsize is the mayor of Munchkin City. Bubbles is the Tin Man. May is the Scarecrow and Winslow is the Cowardly Lion.
Spookybot is obviously Glinda. And then there’s the Wicked Corpse Witch of the East.
And I believe that Roko is actually Dorothy. She’s looking for a way back home to her old body.
Which makes Melon Toto, I guess?
awkwardness:
Comic is up...
it's a sad day when Pintsize isn't the most vulgar in the room- then again, he does it because it part of who he is while Faye should have a TMI filter. At least Claire tried to be nice!!!!
BenRG:
Looks like Bubbles is going to be on nursemaid duty today. I wonder how grumpy Faye and Claire are going to get whilst still feeling too sick to do anything about it?
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