MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

Ok, I was entertained... but as a prequel it left three... and I mean a big three... things unexplained.

Well, for one, we did see a lion get scared away, thus the cowardly lion... but then the lion should have roared with a humanized voice (the monkey talks so its plausible), thus the cowardly talking lion we'll see in the wizard of oz.

And, ok, yeah, they made an army of scarecrows... fine... alludes to the scarecrow in the sequel, BUT none of those scarecrows had life... couldn't some stray magic have hit at least one of the "soldiers" leaving him bound to a post to be discovered later?

Finally... where'd the fucking tin man come from? They ALMOST built one... Tinker was making all kinds of machinations, but no tin man to get rusted and stuck in a field.

I wanted to see these things. We now know how the fraud Oz came to be, and the construction of of curtain and smoke throne room, the green witch and her aversion to water, the other bad witch who will die under the house, the bubble-traveling good witch, the munkins, the yellow brick road, the doorman whatshisname.... we know where every character comes from... even where all the emeralds came from to build the emerald palace... except the key three companions of Dorothy, each of whom is trapped along her path to be discovered and saved.

Lastly... why doesn't it end with even an after-credits allusion to a new storm... with a house popping out the top of a twister... and end there.

They took us only just not far enough for me to love it and tie it all in with the Wizard of Oz so perfectly, as it needs to be for children. It's kinda for children, no?

Yeah, my five year old was all like "Wow, I love the allusion to the scarecrow, and the fact that tinker makes so many complicated mechinations, clearly he must at some point have built the tin man... I didn't need to see that to know it's true. I'm five."