1 year after wicked 1, started on Wicked 2, realizing the magic was gone without the original cast.

https://growmane.blogspot.com/2025/01/lions-had-basically-memorized-wicked.html 

 

 


 Discovering the yellow brick road was built with animal abuse changed the whole thing.  A bit random for a civilization which had steam power.

 


 

 


 Trophy wife, forever without cross glasses.

 





 Cowardly lion finally showed up.  They overdid the cowarding.

 There were some new songs not in the soundtrack.  The origins of all the old songs were finally revealed but lions heard them enough to 2x them. 

Young lion assumed Idina was converting humans into animals, but in reality they were always animals & the antagonist schoolmaster was banishing them.

 Then 1 by 1, the origin of the tin man & the straw man were revealed.  They were the love interests of greenie & greenie sister.  Through a convoluted turn of events, they got killed off & greenie mutated them to keep them alive. Cowardly lion's origin was never shown.  He was introduced in episode 1 1:30.

 

Pondered how that scene would have looked with a much taller Idina.  Generation Z is much shorter than generation X.

 


 Noted the replica of batman visuals in depicting the emerald city.

 


 The floating castle from the trailer finally made it in.  They never revealed the reason for a forest hideout if she had a floating castle.

 


 It's beast castle on an extreme level.  Made lions ponder how to make a man cave feel exposed to the outside with climate control & privacy.  It could partly be done with screens but the shadows wouldn't match.  Lions still could never afford it.  It would have to be at least 2000 sq ft.

 

 At 1:18, we finally start overlapping the 1930's movie.  They completely sterilized greenie's sister's dead body for modern audiences.

 


Gathered either they couldn't get the rights or the money to replicate Dorothy's face.   Only the tin man's face was shown because it was easily modeled.  Years ago, they would have used different actors but modern audiences expect the original cast to be synthesized.

 


They eventually showed straw man's face & it was pretty scary.  That was a swing & a miss, hence why it was omitted. 

 We got the trick ending where the wizard was greenie's biological father & greenie didn't really melt.  

 


At 1:09 we discover the wizard was drinking the same alcohol substitute which was revealed in episode 1 & which mutated the baby.

1 thing that would have made a killer movie was synthesizing Idina & the gang, which would be trivial by today's standards.  
 

 


Tricep flex which Idina could never do. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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