History Headscratchers / OzTheGreatAndPowerful

** There comes a time in every porcelain boy or girls life when their parents sit them down and tell them about the facts of the kiln...

* If we assume that this story follow's the film's continuity with regard to the Ruby slippers, the likeliest answer is that she got in touch with Theodora (who is red-themed and wears a ruby ring to cast magic) and had her create the shoes as a new conduit for her power to work through. Explains why Theo's so eager to recover them in the book and the 1939 film.

* Didn't Dorothy meet Oz before the tornado hit her? Wouldn't that mean Oz would have to have left the Emerald City and returned to Kansas in between the end of this film and the start of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''?
** I don't remember anything like that mentioned either in the books or in the 1939 film. Where is this from?
** The black-and-white AndYouWereThere segments from the first movie had Oz's actor meet Dorothy. I wouldn't take those seriously, unless you're also claiming that the Cowardly Lion was originally a human from Kansas, along with a bunch of other unlikely bits of travel.

* Theodora. A witch who was once good-hearted, innocent and beautiful is screwed over by the other characters, has her heart broken by the protagonist, and has an enchantment put on her to destroy her beauty and her heart. She has never been depicted as choosing evil; she has been tricked into it, and has done nothing of her own free will that would justify losing audience sympathy (even Oz's offer of redemption is a hollow gesture, as she has had the capacity for the feelings required to choose redemption taken from her by trickery.) Yet she is DoomedByCanon to be treated by the plot of Film/TheWizardOfOz as pure evil (even though she is apparently throughout that film not herself but acting under an evil enchantment) who not only dies without redemption but whose death results in an unambiguous celebration ("Ding! Dong! The witch is dead!") and not a single tear for the good woman she once was. TheWoobie, ButtMonkey and ChewToy seem like understatements. ValuesDissonance much?
** OTGAP is getting a sequel set between it and Dorothy's time. Perhaps we haven't seen the last of Theodora yet. She may be redeemed yet... or she may completely cross the MoralEventHorizon, leaving the Wizard with no other choice.
** [[DoomedByCanon Considering what happens in Dorothy's time]] a redemption seems out of the question. We can hope that either she regains her free will and is given a reason to choose evil anyways or that [[FanWank her good part is extracted form her and, since this film identifies the Witches as the King's daughters, possibly reborn as Princess Ozma thus explaining how she could have be born while the Wizard is in Oz when her father, the King, died before Oscar arrived in this film.]]
*** No, only Glinda is the king's daughter in this movie. Evanora was his advisor and Theodora is Evanora's sister.
** Also, OTGAP takes place in an AlternateContinuity to Baum's novels and the 1939 film. It's entirely possible that the Witch of the West's death, should we ever see it, will be played more tragically in this universe than it was in the others.
** Even in Baum's original novel (where the Wicked Witch isn't overly evil and conniving like she is in the 1939 movie), Dorothy notes that the Wizard's voice trembles slightly as he verifies with them that Theo really is dead. It wouldn't take much to tie that into the interpretation that he viewed her death as a tragic, but ultimately necessary act to ensure the safety of the good people of Oz, and that he was still feeling bad about the part he'd played in unlocking her fate -- especially since the first thing he does after this is request that Dorothy and friends give him time to think it over.

** Evidently Oz made a pass at the girl, not knowing she was with that man.

** Maybe a bit of both. The above makes mention of pro wrestling and {{Kayfabe}} which in a nutshell was when they still pretended wrestling was real and rivals couldn't be seen in public together it was a whole thing. I imagine that in those days there were at least a few times when some kid who's mom was getting beat up by his father ran up to Hulk Hogan and aske him to run wild and save his mommy.
** Well it was a sign that he wasn't as big a dick as he appeared. He looked genuinely guilty that he couldn't make the little girl walk again.

** I may not be recalling the original Wizard of Oz film correctly, but doesn't Glinda use the same fog in that movie to wake Dorothy and Co. when they make the trip through the poppies? If that's the case, which I'm pretty sure it is, then Glinda's sister's would probably know her fog could counteract the poppy sleep effect.

* How old is Oscar Diggs supposed to be in this continuity? Other versions of the story have him as a much older man who’s lived in Oz for years by the time Dorothy visits him, but this film’s problem tying into those is that here, Oz’s lady-friend, Annie, is implied to be Dorothy’s mother, and the two of them still appear to be quite young — in their 20s or 30s, maybe? Dorothy is portrayed as being 12 at the oldest during her first adventure in Oz, and Annie mentions receiving a proposal from her implied-to-be-father John Gale early on in this film. So how much time passed before their marriage and Dorothy’s conception that allowed the Wizard to age as much as he did? Unless Annie is actually Dorothy’s grandmother or time passes differently in Oz. (Which would explain how her uncle had time to build a entire new farmhouse during her adventures there in the first book.)

* How old is Oscar Diggs supposed to be in this continuity? Other versions of the story have him as a much older man who’s lived in Oz for years by the time Dorothy visits him, but this film’s problem tying into those is that here, Oz’s lady-friend, Annie, is implied to be Dorothy’s mother, and the two of them still appear to be quite young — in their 20s or 30s, maybe? Dorothy is portrayed as being 12 at the oldest during her first adventure in Oz, and Annie mentions receiving a proposal from her implied-to-be-father John Gale early on in this film. So how much time passed before their marriage and Dorothy’s conception that allowed the Wizard to age as much as he did?

** And Theodora was already in pain from her heart "withering and dying". It's likely she couldn't think of other solutions because of the state she was in.

** It was a long time ago. Simple country folk only saw these magic shows when they came to town. The entire point of the shows back then was to convince them that magic was possible. Travelling medicine men sold sugar water as miracle cures. The better the act, the more likely people would be to believe Oz had great power.
** Note that the first person to back up their 'why can't you?' was the man who pointed out the wires - and still thought it was all a trick. Not everybody believes in magic, but quite a few people in the crowd did when they booed Oz off stage.
** It does stretch WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief a little there, but it's RuleOfDrama and {{Foreshadowing}} of fixing the porcelain girl's legs.

** 1.) I'm pretty sure the "never die" thing only came into effect once Ozma ascended the throne. 2.) This film is actually meant more as a sequel to the original books than to the 1939 movie. It evokes certain things from the MGM film as nostalgic, but insignificant references (the only examples I can think of, honestly, are Theo's green skin and fire magic and the Oz/Kansas counterparts), but there are other, much more major parts of it that contradict the events of the MGM film (mainly the AllJustADream thing) because it's written to follow the books from a story perspective. (Mostly -- I don't think the books ever mentioned the king leaving a prophecy behind, and his daughter in the books was Princess Ozma, who was hidden away as a baby, not an adult Glinda the Good like in this film.)

** It's not unreasonable that they would think the fog was somehow blocking the effects of the flowers. Whatever explanation they came up with, they saw an army marching on their city and thought they had to do something before they reached the gates. They couldn't just sit there and let them come, and if the approaching troops could withstand the poppies, the witches figured the flying monkeys could as well.

* Several things don't seem to fit between this movie and ''The Wizard of Oz''. Going by the MGM movie, the chief problem is: ''how comes the Wizard aged like that?'' This is the Land of Oz. The land where you never die (except from a magic-induced WeaksauceWeakness like Theodora's water problem). Relatedly, deciding Glinda and Oz are in love was an odd idea, because whatever version you're going with (be it the movie or the book), the modern-day-Wizard and the modern-day-Glinda are ''not'' in love (if nothign else, I doubt post-character-development-Oz would plan to leave Oz in his air baloon with Doroty without even so much as a goodbye to the love of his life), meaning their relationship is DoomedByCanon.