Nah....it's 2024 and this is a message board.

Some are honestly taking issue and some are sht-posting.

As for me, I spit on "Wicked" and everything about it, mainly because I have such admiration for unique, creative minds.

Baum/Tolkien etc. created such incredible, unique, vast worlds and I'm not a fan of people taking those ideas, perverting them, adding a few rhinestones and crowing about THEIR "original" works, especially when it is so blatantly disrespectful and offensive towards the original.

I'm a creator and I understand who hard it is to do anything even remotely approaching original and I know Baum would be repulsed at what many have done to his works.

To each his/her own.

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Posted by imjustafatkid

Alabama

Member since Dec 2011

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Posted on 2/13/24 at 7:47 am to oogabooga68

I think Wicked is pretty respectful of the source material. Sure, it changes the motivations and intentions of many characters, but it doesn't spit all over the original work.

There's a retelling of Beowulf out there put out by some feminist psycho that is absolutely egregious. This ain't that.

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Posted by meansonny

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Member since Sep 2012

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Posted on 2/13/24 at 8:57 am to oogabooga68

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Baum/Tolkien etc. created such incredible, unique, vast worlds and I'm not a fan of people taking those ideas, perverting them, adding a few rhinestones and crowing about THEIR "original" works, especially when it is so blatantly disrespectful and offensive towards the original.

The ruby red slippers really pisses you off as it defeats the original metaphor... I'm sure.

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