A weak attempt at a "sequel" in the last 4 minutes of the "finale" does not make it so. Better movies (and TV) than this have promised unnecessary sequels, such as "The Golden Compass" and the 2011 "Three Musketeers". Who cares about a silly demonic beast? Obviously, The Wizard was only shot in the shoulder. He passed out and didn't die (my guess). The Tin Man can be pulled together. How fitting that Dorothy's real mother is a genius, and thus the real "Wizard of Oz"! Only two (or three) memorable episodes out of 10. Please take Toto and stay home with Lucas! Note that the big audience has fallen to the point that I am the first reviewer. The TV viewers are right again!
3 Reviews
Is Aunt Em really West?
gkeith_15 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Spoilers. Observations. Opinions.
Series overview and episode recap.
Is Aunt Em really West? West has black tipped fingers also, plus she owns a brothel. Maybe Aunt Em is more than she appears. Shelling walnuts, indeed. What a storyline twist. West's and Em's fingers, plus Eamonn's huge under eye circles look like they drowned in the Maybelline black mascara cauldron.
The wizard was a coward. So was the Cowardly Lion/Eamonn. Lucas also worked for Frank. Is Lucas also a coward? No one of the three friends of Dorothy were what they seemed. The Tin Man/Jack was a kid who befriended Tip. Lucas/Scarecrow used to be a guard of the wizard. The lion was a flunky of a flunky.
Jack figures hugely in the next series, I predict, and I hope that there is one. He is one of the main characters, because his actor is in the top credits. In this episode, his head is alive but his metal parts are scattered like paper chads in the wind.
Total war: Regular war has soldiers fighting soldiers in regulated battalions. Total war includes civilian men, women and children, and in this episode child witches were annihilated. Sylvie was shot by the stupid wizard. She actually got up from the ground, because only a witch can kill a witch.
Witches: In real life, European and American witches were not what they seemed. They (from my university research in women's history) were moneyed, independent women who were property owners and outcasts of the ultra religious, superstitious churchgoers who feared them. I realize that most modern people have not heard this much, but witches were not the pointed hat goblins with black cats feared on Halloween. They were punished because of the jealousy and fear of the townspeople.
In this Emerald City series, witches are supernatural beings who control weather and people's minds.
The witches fight the wizard in a battle of magic vs. science. Since the wizard is so stupid, how can he even fathom how science works?
The Beast Forever was the skinless man. These scenes were painful to watch -- the makeup and special effects body sculpting were that good. When he puts on his skin, he starts to transform. When he grows his wings to become a giant Batman, he grows ferocious. I was waiting for him to put some clothes on.
I predicted in an early review that Sylvie and Tip would figure prominently in the outcome of this series, and I was correct.
Styles of this series: Art-Deco of the 1930s, medieval peasant clothing, 19th century steampunk including the sock monkey movie projectors and Big Brother computers, plus 20th century wrecked homes in Kansas. Aunt Em's windmill looked like the one on Pa Kent's farm.
Some 19th century authors sent their main characters to imaginary worlds outside reality. Peter Pan and Dorothy Gale, in separate story lines, went up in the sky to places of nasty villains and debauchery, and Alice in Wonderland went underground to meet rabbits, caterpillars and smart-alecky cats. Were these authors on drugs? The bizarre creatures met on the characters' travels were not your ordinary everyday moms and pops of suburban fiction.
Series overview and episode recap.
Is Aunt Em really West? West has black tipped fingers also, plus she owns a brothel. Maybe Aunt Em is more than she appears. Shelling walnuts, indeed. What a storyline twist. West's and Em's fingers, plus Eamonn's huge under eye circles look like they drowned in the Maybelline black mascara cauldron.
The wizard was a coward. So was the Cowardly Lion/Eamonn. Lucas also worked for Frank. Is Lucas also a coward? No one of the three friends of Dorothy were what they seemed. The Tin Man/Jack was a kid who befriended Tip. Lucas/Scarecrow used to be a guard of the wizard. The lion was a flunky of a flunky.
Jack figures hugely in the next series, I predict, and I hope that there is one. He is one of the main characters, because his actor is in the top credits. In this episode, his head is alive but his metal parts are scattered like paper chads in the wind.
Total war: Regular war has soldiers fighting soldiers in regulated battalions. Total war includes civilian men, women and children, and in this episode child witches were annihilated. Sylvie was shot by the stupid wizard. She actually got up from the ground, because only a witch can kill a witch.
Witches: In real life, European and American witches were not what they seemed. They (from my university research in women's history) were moneyed, independent women who were property owners and outcasts of the ultra religious, superstitious churchgoers who feared them. I realize that most modern people have not heard this much, but witches were not the pointed hat goblins with black cats feared on Halloween. They were punished because of the jealousy and fear of the townspeople.
In this Emerald City series, witches are supernatural beings who control weather and people's minds.
The witches fight the wizard in a battle of magic vs. science. Since the wizard is so stupid, how can he even fathom how science works?
The Beast Forever was the skinless man. These scenes were painful to watch -- the makeup and special effects body sculpting were that good. When he puts on his skin, he starts to transform. When he grows his wings to become a giant Batman, he grows ferocious. I was waiting for him to put some clothes on.
I predicted in an early review that Sylvie and Tip would figure prominently in the outcome of this series, and I was correct.
Styles of this series: Art-Deco of the 1930s, medieval peasant clothing, 19th century steampunk including the sock monkey movie projectors and Big Brother computers, plus 20th century wrecked homes in Kansas. Aunt Em's windmill looked like the one on Pa Kent's farm.
Some 19th century authors sent their main characters to imaginary worlds outside reality. Peter Pan and Dorothy Gale, in separate story lines, went up in the sky to places of nasty villains and debauchery, and Alice in Wonderland went underground to meet rabbits, caterpillars and smart-alecky cats. Were these authors on drugs? The bizarre creatures met on the characters' travels were not your ordinary everyday moms and pops of suburban fiction.
Perfection.
sagicohen-1444230 March 2021
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