#wizard of oz

[wildbeautifuldamned]

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[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

And if I said the duality of Boq Woodsman’s obsessive people pleasing and becoming aggressive in times of stress makes him a more book accurate adaptation of Nick Chopper than most other versions we’ve had but Nick fans can’t accept it because their version of book accurate Nick is incredibly watered down and infantilized what then

[alexiswrite]

So. Let's talk about Kamchatka.

Kamchatka is closely associated with a not-so-cold Cold War, both overtly (it's literally a prison camp in Russia violently holding an American veteran prisoner) and by implication - the Kura Missile Testing Range, an intercontinental ballistic missile (IBM) impact area, operated there into the early 2000s.

Compare with Nina - another significant location in ST4 - which, as previously discussed, is based in a disused IBM launch site

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💬 16  🔁 11  ❤️ 67 · So I just realised that WarGames gets name-dropped in the series (Will says the phone sounds like WarGames when they pho

Kamchatka also has a cultural meaning in a Russian idiom for any far away place, like how we might say Timbuktu in English.

Or Oz. #ozgate.

Or Wonderland. #mirrorgate. #chessgate.

Kids also use it to refer to the back row of desks in a classroom. And then I found this interesting paragraph:

In the central Siberian city of Tomsk, children play a game called Dead Telephone, whispering a sentence around a circle until someone fails to repeat the original wording accurately, and for the child who gets the sentence wrong, the penalty is “you must go live in Kamchatka.” From:

Here The Bear and The Mafia Roam

Kamchatka, east of Siberia. As the curtain rises on the new frontier of adventure outfitting, attendees include your guide (he's the one wit

So when the signal drops out and you are no longer receiving accurate information, you end up in Kamchatka? In a game called ... Dead Telephone?

[9to5buzzcom]

On Aug 15, 1939, The Wizard of Oz, an American musical fantasy film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's book, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theat

[jubjubious]

scarecrow moment

[oldshowbiz]

Fat Tin Man

[awwdraws]