History WMG / Labyrinth

* Many people have noted that Jareth's ballroom attire resembles the Beast's from the famous Disney's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. But while Belle must learn not to judge a best by his looks, Sarah is being fooled by Jareth's good looks, in this scene.

Sarah sets off into the Labyrinth, which has no clear path(the opposite of the Yellow Brick Road, where you only have to stay on the path to be safe). She meets Hoggle(all brains), Ludo(all heart), and Sir Didymus(all courage). She must rescue her little brother Toby instead of her dog Toto. The Junk Lady corresponds loosely to the Wicked Witch of the West, who wants to keep her there and make her one of The Junk Lady's kind, instead of killing her and taking her shoes. Dorothy's power is her innocence, whereas Sarah's is gained through maturity and coming of age. The poppy scene corresponds loosely to the peach scene. The morals are inverted: "Every now and again in my life, for no reason at all, I need you [i.e. imagined things]" versus "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, l won't look any further than my own backyard, because if it isn't there I never really lost it to begin with." Almost the first thing we learn in Oz is that good things are beautiful and bad are ugly, while we learn the opposite at the start of the Labyrinth with Hoggle and the pixies. The parallels go on, if you're looking for them, and many(like the sidekicks) seem less-than-coincidental.

[[WMG: Sarah is a [[LightNovel/{{Haruhi Suzumiya}}reality warper]].]]

[[WMG: The Fieries are mutated [[Series/FraggleRock Fraggles]].]]

* Most of these boil down to: the author is [[SmallNameBigEgo too full of herself]] (see "it’ll blow your mind" etc.) and gets hyped too much (see "genius") for someone, who [[CriticalResearchFailure doesn't know much about the fandom and already existing theories]], [[CanonDefilement ignores half the rules of the Verse]] (''the Right Words'' for example) to create a [[SoOkayItsAverage bland]] theory, that goes [[UnfortunateImplications against all the original stood for]], has [[PlotHole major logical issues]] and (as the Jareth's previous victims idea) [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking was done to death]].

** But Jareth is ''in love'' with Sarah, at least so far as one assumes a Goblin King can be. The manga makes it clear that Toby, like Jareth, has very fond memories of his creative elder sister, and regrets her mundane 'growing up,' and sure, he falls in love with a palette-swapped version of Sarah as she was at his age, but... '''''[[IncestIsRelative Oh.]]'''''

[[WMG:Jareth is of the same Main/WitchSpecies as Yuko Ichihara from ''Manga/XxxHolic''.]]

How else would a human's book contain the proper incarnations to summon or disarm the goblins? He created it so that humans would know the right words to say in order to allow him to steal children and make more goblins. As the author, he'd have some level of awareness of who obtains his book, thus why he'd go to watch Sarah in owl form before she reads the 'I wish' incantation.

[[WMG: The other door in the Knaves trick leads to the [[ALoadofBull Minotaur.]]]]

* This is actually what I got out of the movie upon first viewing, but also, each of the goblins represents a responsibility that Sarah has shrugged off or forgotten, which is why Toby is in danger of turning into one.

* ^ This. Probably the reason why I don't like the WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick review much is because she scorns the ending of the movie as a CompletelyMissingThePoint about letting go of childhood, when any psychologist will tell you that a little amount of phantasy is not only unavoidable but also healthy. Besides, don't you think that if letting completely go of your imagination was an unavoidable step into adult hood, it would make somehow difficult to people like Creator/JimHenson to exist at all?