Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9241531-20131014211027/@comment-24054032-20131015170017

I most definitely noticed them, and I tell you, they made me fangirl (boy?) SO HARD!

I adore Wizard of Oz, and I love how many different people interpret it and twist it into their own versions. However, like you said, I'd like to see OUaT's version of it - not a blatant lift from Wicked. Sadly, Oz the Great & Powerful IS Disney, so it will most likely be at least referenced. It's been hinted by the writers that even "real world" characters are in some way fictional. I can't quite remember how they put it, but it was revealed when they were discussing The Darlings and Bae having already been to the "real world" in Victorian England. Only because of that would I say that Dorothy's situation is likely similair, in that Kansas is probably fictional.

I'm quite interested in how they're gonna twist the current characters into the storyline, especially the witches and the ruby slippers. Will they have a curse attached to them? How did Rumple get posession of them? What about the twister that brought Dorothy to Oz? Did someone have it out for her, is it a curse gone wrong? I just can't wait for OUaT to cover this, and I'm hopeful they get the opportunity (even if it's just through a spin-off).