flying back tonight

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[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Can't be up the creek without a paddle, since I see two oars.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Actually I'm waiting for the tornado to pick me up so that I can row back home. Hopefully I won't land in Oz.

[tania-c.livejournal.com]

I'm picturing Zod traveling cross-country, smiting as he flies. Or provoking seismic events.

Safe journey, look our for halberds falling from the skies.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Hah! Halberds, just like cats and dogs and bullets, bounce off my skin.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

He did, in England. Muttering someting about 'perfide Angleterre'.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Zod is French?

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Who else would cause an earthquake in England?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Irish leprechauns?

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Sent by General Zod.

[readinggeek451]

I didn't know rowboats could fly.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Have you never seen the movie The Wizard of Oz?

[readinggeek451]

Once, long ago. I hated it.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Were you very young and it looked scary? Or was it just not your cup of tea?

[readinggeek451]

I was in college. I enjoyed it up until the end, when they *ruined* it by saying it had all been a dream. IT WAS NOT A DREAM!!!! (Sorry for shouting, but I adored the book, and was--and still am--enraged that they felt it necessary to negate the fantasy.)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of what happened to the late Damon Knight when he saw the movie as a kid. He talked about that during his GoH speech at the Boston worldcon in 1980, and about his complaining to the adults about its turning out to be a dream. Their response?

"What else could it have been?"

[readinggeek451]

In the *book* it was real. What's more, Dorothy went back to Oz with her uncle and Aunt Em and ended up staying for good.

So there, nyah.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I wonder... Did anyone ever write about why they decided to make the whole thing into a dream? Some studio bigwig had a mundane moment?

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

You look happy to be on the water.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Not so much that, but I was having a good time that day, and the weather was gorgeous.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

That's what happiness is about.