Mallory’s Reviews > The Wonderful Wizard of Oz > Status Update

Not Dorothy laughing at the Scarecrow as he tries to do something nice for her. She’s just sitting there not helping as he collects nuts FOR HER, and she LAUGHS at him. Feels ableist.

“Why are you jumping like that?” “Shut up it’s a FELINE thing.” XD

Not the casual murder of the Kalidahs. What happened to Tin Woodman feeling sad about death of any kind? Could they talk like the Lion? Were the PEOPLE?

If the Cowardly Lion is such a coward that relies on roars to keep his reputation, why the hell did he come out the gate attacking everyone?? He would’ve straight up killed the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman if they’d been flesh and blood, and nearly got Toto were it not for Dorothy. Also his backstory is so boring and barely a story.

“Perhaps you have heart disease.” SO OUT OF POCKET, LYMAN FRANK BAUM. XD

The Tin Woodman’s story is horrifying. Sitting frozen for OVER A YEAR is maddening enough, but he CUT OFF BODY PARTS LEFT AND RIGHT? And recalls this like a minor inconvenience. How does chopping off your head EVEN WORK?? The poor Munchkin girl.

Damn Dorothy, you don’t care about your new friends as long as you get home? Maybe YOU need the heart. (And she doesn’t seem to care about Uncle Henry, just Aunt Em.)

So the Scarecrow having no brains is really just him being autistic coded and not understanding arbitrary social conventions. He’s like “wow, Kansas sounds like it sucks” and Dorothy’s just like “YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU’RE DUMB” even though she’s the one who irrationally wants to go back to KANSAS.

Love how there’s no explanation why this scarecrow has sentience. What was in that paint?

Dorothy only puts on the shoes for practicality, not because the witch tells her to. And I had no idea the gingham dress was not only in the book, but kinda plot relevant.

Dorothy locking the house up before leaving XD

WAIT THE NAME BOQ WAS ACTUALLY PULLED FROM THE ORIGINAL BOOK? I’d totally forgotten that!

So canonically the Scarecrow is short like the Munchkins, because they made him. Never thought of that.

Soooo we’re just not going to talk about why the Witch of the North’s hat turned into a slate with a prophetic message? No explanation needed for that?

The way the witch SHAKES THE ASHES OUT OF THE SHOES and gives them to Dorothy like “here’s your murder trophy, dear!”

Also interesting how Dorothy just puts the shoes on a table inside instead of wearing them. And we don’t know why they’re special.

Interesting. I never realized that the book actually describes everything in Kansas as gray. The movie was very clever for being so literal.

I need Aunt Em’s backstory now. How did she end up here? What about Uncle Henry? Were they ever really in love?

What happened to Dorothy’s parents! More backstory I want to know about! How did they die?

Not Dorothy just falling asleep inside a cyclone. Honestly mood.