Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-11464223-20140207061100/@comment-24769579-20140508111443

Dr. Kangaroo wrote: Anubis16 wrote: DarlingDavies wrote: Dr. Kangaroo wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Dr. Kangaroo wrote: Kansas was indeed a better episode for her. Loved the twist to the witches of Oz. And did anyone notice the Wicked references? (Glinda handing Zelena the mirror => Popular...:D) Yes! Totally a nod to the play.

I think their chats about changing for good, choosing to be good, was a nod to the song, "For Good", from the play. "Who can say I've been changed for the better? Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.". (Of course in OUAT world, Zelena ended up choosing evil.)

Also, the water incident/melting incident was a total nod at Wicked. In the play Zelena "melts", but then we see she faked it.

Seems like the writers did a nice blending job, incorporating lots of elements of the Wizard of Oz interpretations. Just curios here did Dorothy ever meet the scarecrow, tin man, and cowardly lion or are they not even characters in Once? I think they don't exist. The witches kind of represent them, though. Glinda (love) = tinman, North (wisdom) = scarecrow & East (courage) = lion, so in a way Dorothy did meet them... Nicely phrased