Status Updates From Dorothy and the Wizard in O...

i continue my quest to read all of these...right off the bat dorothy no longer has a southern accent but her talking cat does, and the 1906 SF earthquake is the catalyst for getting them into OZ this time so perfect book thus far

Now, this one... I'm reading for the first time.

“I suppose we should’ve called for help when they started driving us away.” You don’t say, Eureka.

The Black Pit sounds like a drop akin to a volcano. Not a little cave. Underwhelming doom, to say the least.

The Wizard suggesting they follow the road instead of staying cooped up in a dead end dark cave is ridiculous. That is the obvious choice, guys, the ONLY choice. Why would you ever choose to stay??

So the advisors were “proved” wrong about getting rid of the strangers, but for some reason the veggies still feel justified in murdering the animals? Why are they different?

For three days the veggies didn’t attack and our party does…nothing? They know there’s a ticking clock on the animals’ lives and yet they just kinda keep hanging out instead of brainstorming some kinda plan of escape? C’mon guys.

Aw, I feel kinda bad for the Prince. I wouldn’t want to be planted either. Poor guy.

How is it that every trick the Wizard does is absolutely impossible and insane. What do you mean he had nine teacup pigs just in his pocket? What do you mean smashing them together was just a sleight-of-hand?

Um, what the hell do you mean fish aren’t animals? Then what, pray tell, are they?

Don’t horses sleep standing up?

Why can the veggies float at will?

Not Dorothy being so horny for the vegetable girl that she loses all tact. The prince is like “yeah, I’m gonna have to die when the princess is ripe so I’d like to enjoy as many days as I can possibly have left.” And Dorothy’s just like “nah, she’s deeeeefinitely ripe already, pick her immediately.”

Why must they be destroyed though? Why not just let them leave?

Their talk about Gwim being wrong so often was hilarious. “Are you sure?” XD

They sat there and stared at a descending balloon for THREE HOURS?? Dear lord, attention spans used to be so much longer.

Bailum & Barney’s XD

How the hell did the Wizard manage that pig thing without real magic?

Are we not going to talk about how the Wizard was going to straight up murder a guy?

They’re VEGGIES? Wtf??

A little girl with a kitten falling slowly down a hole? Very Alice In Wonderland. I wonder if Baum was inspired by it.

So Bill could talk, Jim can talk, and even Eureka can talk. This leads me to believe that Toto could talk the entire time but just chose not to say anything, which is hilarious.

I can’t believe they didn’t immediately unharness Jim from the buggy. He still has to cart them around?? C’mon.

Ah, the 20th century, when little kids could travel all on their own without anyone worried for their safety.

So they just got back to the States from Australia and Dorothy is already going to get whisked off to Oz AGAIN? Not a natural disaster in the world that didn’t take a liking to this girl.

Zeb seems nice.

“Zeb, being a boy, did not faint.” Glad to see the sexism is still alive and well in Oz. -_-