Glad you finally saw it-- I love that miniseries to tiny bits. 8-)
I was driven out of the fandom after only a couple of weeks by the sheer volume of poorly-written and/or -plotted DG/Cain and Cain/Glitch fluff and/or angst fic. Ah, like Harry Potter fandom; very hard to find the good stuff in the midst of the dross. But I shall assume that there is good stuff somewhere, even if we don't know where it is.
I do like that theory on how Dorothy got to be the Queen of Oz; it's either that, or Ozma was killed somehow, and honorary-Princess Dorothy was made ruler by popular acclaim with the rest of their friends as advisors. Dorothy marrying Tip would explain why the royal line still had magic in it; but perhaps Tip was also killed, and Dorothy became Queen as you say. Or there could be some rule in the constitution that said that Oz must be ruled by a woman, so when Ozma became Tip, she also abdicated in favour of Dorothy.
I keep meaning to write D.G. happening upon the original 14 OZ books in-story as half history, half legend written long after the fact about the first Gale Queen of the O.Z. Hmmm, interesting. That would make O.Z. canon trump Oz canon, which is the other way around to how I normally would think of it. We do know that there are inconsistencies; not just the Queen Dorothy thing, but also the assertion that Dorothy was the first Othersider to find the O.Z. - because according to Oz canon, the first Othersider would have been the Wizard. On the other hand, considering that the Wizard hid his origins, and Dorothy didn't, that fact could be easily lost in time.
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I was driven out of the fandom after only a couple of weeks by the sheer volume of poorly-written and/or -plotted DG/Cain and Cain/Glitch fluff and/or angst fic.
Ah, like Harry Potter fandom; very hard to find the good stuff in the midst of the dross. But I shall assume that there is good stuff somewhere, even if we don't know where it is.
I do like that theory on how Dorothy got to be the Queen of Oz; it's either that, or Ozma was killed somehow, and honorary-Princess Dorothy was made ruler by popular acclaim with the rest of their friends as advisors.
Dorothy marrying Tip would explain why the royal line still had magic in it; but perhaps Tip was also killed, and Dorothy became Queen as you say. Or there could be some rule in the constitution that said that Oz must be ruled by a woman, so when Ozma became Tip, she also abdicated in favour of Dorothy.
I keep meaning to write D.G. happening upon the original 14 OZ books in-story as half history, half legend written long after the fact about the first Gale Queen of the O.Z.
Hmmm, interesting. That would make O.Z. canon trump Oz canon, which is the other way around to how I normally would think of it. We do know that there are inconsistencies; not just the Queen Dorothy thing, but also the assertion that Dorothy was the first Othersider to find the O.Z. - because according to Oz canon, the first Othersider would have been the Wizard. On the other hand, considering that the Wizard hid his origins, and Dorothy didn't, that fact could be easily lost in time.
Ah, I love reconciling canon inconsistencies!