> 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."
Yes, but the REAL question is does the action sync up perfectly with "Obscured by Clouds"?
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