u/magica12

as an american my prospects of it ever coming here are basically nil

but my read on the soundtrack is that its basically the main series condensed into a musical format, so i was wondering, whats yalls thought on it?

what it says on the tin

Cuz like, we know in at least WWoz and marvelous land, people age and whatnot

So…the wizard supposedly would have eventually aged and died

So what do you think his game plan was…or if he even had one at all

So during popular, when Emma threw the wand, it didn’t clear the stage cuz she wasn’t standing in quite the right place and didn’t throw it hard enough

Hilariously she ran over and hucked it off stage

Or should I message in the app?

I’m traveling at the end of next week and using my discover card for the hotel, I wanna avoid the first attempt “was this you!?” Text and notice, would contacting customer service actually help avoid that?

Edit: for reference it’s gonna ding me for roughly 1500$ on a 2k limit and that’s with the incidentals

I just don’t want it to get declined the first time round, I know the hotel can validate it there but I’d rather be able to do the virtual check in for once

So someone recently made a post asking if Angelica is just unabashedly evil, the consensus being no, cuz she’s a three year old child essentially spoiled to the point of neglect by her parents and generally ignored by every other adult in her life

But like…I never actually clocked the fact that she was 3 years old in the original series, and I do feel like this is a thing that is forgotten by a lot of people…because I feel it pretty much never comes up in any memorable sense. Like i always assumed she was like 4 maybe 5 or 6 tops, it’s pretty much how my brain always justified the fact that she was always essentially dumped with her cousin and his friends and left essentially in charge of them

like this one is legitimately something im curious about, cuz like...its a story that isnt really constrained by its setting as the narrative beats can be pretty much applied to any setting and not lose anything for the most part...but it feels like we just keep getting a christmas carol retold towards us basically every year to every other year at this stage. is it just the familiarity and wanting to see if any curveballs are thrown that keeps us coming back?

by curveballs i mean: like you can technically make the movie as Tonally extreme in either direction as you want all thing considered... the BBC and distribution with FX has a version where Tiny Tim literally drowns and that wasnt that long ago all things considered.

Like, i know John R Neill's illustrations have kinda become iconic...and honestly to some degree memes in their own right in the community. but looking at baums other books, be it the wogglebug book, or the guy who did queer visitors...and then his more nonestica based books. which of the illustrators would you have liked to see take a take on Oz? who do you think would have done well with it?

Edit: personally im not sure which of his other illustrators i would like to have seen take on the series illustrations, but i can tell you which one i wouldnt like to see doing it, and thats the guy who did the queer visitors illustrations, they're just too stylized imo

Like I feel like we have this debate a lot but like has a concrete comparison list of points both for and against the theory that Jack is in Bon ever been properly made?

Edit: also why have I never seen it called Jack in the Bon until I decided to call it that, like seriously love or hate the idea it’s a severely missed opportunity xD

Cuz like it occurred to me, while I was thinking about it with the new teasers…what if that’s true and he was supposed to be showbear before that had to be retconned?

But like every time the idea of Jack in the bon gets brought up a rather loud group of people will turn up to decry it

Im curious if any new consensuses have been reached on what happened to him then?

im pretty sure ive brought this up in this sub before. but i was thinking about it with the new stuff with Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor. and like, i know doctor who as a whole has very loose to nonexistent canon. but a thought occurred to me about the tardis and the chameleon circuit.

during Logopolis, the fourth doctor shows adric a display to demonstrate how the tardis is supposed to work, he shows that the tardis knows how its supposed to function, iirc by pulling up a template for a pyramid. after which the image just defaults back to the Tardis's police box shape.

Like the tardis knows what its supposed to do, but just doesnt.

then in attack of the cybermen when 6 gets the tardis chameleon circuit to function the tardis goes through a couple of whacky disguises that arent exactly inconspicuous before settling on the police box shape.

i kinda feel like the fact was trying to be established early on that the tardis now stays a police box not because it isnt completely functioning properly, but because it just happens to like the shape, and would prefer to stay that way regardless of what the doctor might want.

after the first game and the emotional roller coaster that was, am i the only one who worried through the entire series that Telltale might decide to bring back walkerified/zombified lee for some kind of extra emotional gut punch that served as the series' shark jumping moment?

IDK but every single game after the first i half expected him to turn up as like some kind of zombie prisoner or something for whatever reason. i never had any basis for this dumb idea, it just seemed like something crazy i thought telltale might do because they seemed to enjoy giving emotional gutpunch after gutpunch for clem on her journey

Edit: to add from a response in this thread

yes, i have...like i said, it was just always an idea i had in my head with every game after the first. like "wouldnt it be cool/funny/strange/emotionally damaging if for some reason somehow lee got out of that place, was still a zombie, being held in like a cage or something or just amongst a bunch of walkers, and clem got the same emotional gut punch she got seeing her parents"

it never happened LIKE THAT thank god but like it was always something at the back of my mind

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There was also more to this theory when I was younger but like Lee coming back into the story as a zombie was the core part of it that particularly matters

Like lately it feels those games have always had at least one drawing where the numbers rather shockingly tied into something going on, I personally played a couple box with relevant numbers hoping to win something but was surprised that neither really did

Like ocean points out at the end that Karnak pretty much knew how the entire thing was going to end. That he would have known ocean and the others wouldn’t have been able to actually choose themselves at the end of the day.

So like there’s a bit of a logic thread that stands that he knew they would have chosen Jane and he would know more about her just by seeing that future.

I don’t know why but this logic threat has been sitting in my mind for a while

So, drafting something out based on a small prompt and discussion from another thread the other day

More in specific this thread and line of thoughts with it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wicked/s/3ZwnOxMUbH

It occurred to me, until recently it was just booksical for fics that combined elements of the books with that of the musical, but now the movies have happened so there’s now a new portmanteau that can basically be cracked onto a fic if you so desired

I’d make this a poll but there aren’t too many options I can think of for the three way portmanteau

I don’t know why this just popped into my head but I was thinking about the war games and the fates bestowed on our big bads during it, and it then remembered shada, which is essentially a supermax prison for timelord criminals who are so dangerous they essentially need to be removed from the universe. Where they bring em and chuck em into cryosleep for eternity.

But like…when you consider the lore, and the aforementioned fates…the question becomes why not just do that to all your super high threat criminals? We see time and time again in classic that gallifrey itself isn’t as impenetrable as the timelords seem to think it is and literally all someone needs to do is get someone with even the smallest amount of access to get to the highest security stuff with minimal to no great effort, skagra would have literally succeeded in his universal mind goal had the doctor not gotten a copy of his mind into the sphere.

Like plot wise I know salyavin/chronotis wiped timelord society’s memory of Shada so that could be used to explain why they didnt build another prison and started using other methods.

My theory is that they wanted to keep these criminals on ice so that like the master and the doctor they could potentially use them again at future times should the need ever arise. To have an army of the most dangerous timelord minds should it ever come down to it.

They could easily calculate wiping a whole timelord out of the timeline and do it without having a catastrophic knock on effect, but they straight up don’t

I think it’s another demonstration of their hubris, they say they’re doing something that’s for the benefit of the universe and gallifreyan society at large whilst really they’re just creating more or less a recruitment board of people they can use should the need ever arise.

Tori of the ozvlog recently gave their two cents on the matter and they’re some of the points that get made incredibly often, like MGM would have 100% reshot

And like assuming they didn’t, mgm and Warner bros would more likely splice the section it’s visible for out rather than super impose a bird over it. Which for vhs media released honestly would have been more effort than it were worth

It’s an annoying myth, but I kinda think that even regardless of the state of media literacy the hanging munchkin myth will always manage to persist

Like the book definitely portrays wonka more as a man child who does in fact know when to take things seriously, aaand ya know, not a borderline psychopath like the gene wilder version is generally looked back on as

There’s also the stuff with wonkavite and Charlie voicing his reservations because of “the gum he gave violet” with wonka reminding us that he NEVER gave violet the gum, and did everything short of manhandling violet to get her to spit out the gum. And then when things go wrong as they were bound to do with Josephine getting minus’d he basically goes into a “why don’t people listen to me properly” mood and shows that he does indeed care