I was surprised at how much the show held my interest, other tv shows that have tried to change up The Wizard of Oz (like Tin Man or After the Wizard) haven't been very successful, and like K D, I was never a fan of the Judy Garland movie.
And as for Tip, spoilers I guess for a 100+ year old series:
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In the Oz book series, Tip was born Princess Ozma, and is the rightful heir to the throne of Oz (Tip/Ozma shows up in the second book of the series, and it's really Ozma rather than Dorothy who's the central character in the 40 or so books in the series). When the Wizard comes in, he deposes the real king of Oz and has Mombi hide the king's daughter Ozma away so no one can use Ozma as a symbol or head of a resistance movement. Mombi changes Ozma into a boy through magic to hide Ozma's identity, and Tip has no memory or knowledge of being Ozma or of being royalty. Who knows if Baum intended the character to be trans*, but I've seen many readers embrace Ozma as such.
I was really really disliking Axel after the shower incident. But his comment to Vanessa about thanks for the 3 years of getting to see you naked (or whatever it was) was so gross. It doesn't matter if he saw her naked on a regular basis. She was IN A COMA. She has no memory of it. She wasn't able to consent. She would have never known who took care of cleaning her up all those years if he wasn't insistent on referencing it. And the fact that the show has now repeatedly turned what is a standard basic nursing duty into something sexual is the epitome of rape culture.
One really common trope that I HATE is when immediately there's a complete and utter regression of gender roles within an extremely short amount of time after an apocalypse. I don't know, it seems like that with an apocalypse, when faced with a shortage of available workers you'd need everyone to fill in however possible. Like on the show Jericho, a number of major cities are wiped out by bombs, but the smaller towns were left alone. Yet within just a few weeks, the two main towns we see are literally going to war over resources; even though these towns are agricultural so they both produce food. Additionally, in the towns surrounding Jericho, women are already being kidnapped and sold as sex slaves [why?? there's no huge gender disparity in states like Kansas; rural Alaska, possibly, but not in the middle of the lower 48]. The women as slaves thing happens so often and so often it makes no sense--especially if the apocalypse is from war, that's going to create a shortage of men, not women.
I'm still a little iffy on the series also. But so far I'm a little more interested in it than I was Wynonna Earp (I really wanted to like that one, but dialogue was so bad that I gave up after a few episodes).
On the experiments, I think the scientist says something about babies. But if the vampires are running around eating all the humans (or turning them to vampires through being bitten) what's the point of reproducing if they won't have a food source soon? Unless they're looking for hybrid vampire/human babies that won't need just blood?
"Since this is Bi Visibility Week, I understand your need to find and destroy your enemies in a public forum"
Oh my lord. What the crap is this? All of it is bad, but this part is what stood out to me. So they're saying people are out there deliberately looking for opportunities to be offended and it feels like it's insinuating that none of these offenses or "enemies" are real.
Yeah, that one. I had seen some ads comparing it to True Blood, but didn't realize it was actually by Charlaine Harris, so that's a little too on the nose then.
Nice. There's also Midnight Texas, which is definitely urban fantasy. Or Falling Water, although that looks like it might be more scifi.
There's an Australian show called Cleverman that sounds good, I don't know if it's made available wider yet though. Synposis: "In the very near future, creatures from ancient mythology must live among humans and battle for survival in a world that wants to silence, exploit and destroy them." Main character is Aboriginal.
Oh dear. Just to add to the fail, if the grandma is still in Oklahoma, there are NO turquoise mines in that state, never have been. And although turquoise may have been traded to or used by tribes in other areas, it was only important to southwest tribes (Navajo, Apache, Hopi or Pueblo); the Cherokee are not one of those tribes.
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