True confession: I have never seen "The Seeker" because after rereading Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence more or less yearly since I was old enough to read them, I couldn't handle the thought of Will Stanton, American Boy.
I also haven't read "I, Robot," though I saw the film with that name.
I've read all 14 of the original Oz books, some of them repeatedly, though none of them for years.
Could someone who has more cross-media knowledge than I do determine whether
Dorothy and the Witches of Oz is unto Book Oz as "The Seeker" is unto "The Dark is Rising," or is it more "I, Robot"-ish in its complete lack of any connection whatsoever?
It's as though someone read through all the rest of the books and said, "Nothing interesting happens in any of those. Blah blah blah fairies blah blah blah magical world blah blah blah. But if they're in New York City instead of some made-up place, and we use a music cue that everyone will recognize, then it'll sell." Mind, that presumes that anyone realized there was more than one book in the first place.
The people who made "Return to Oz" knew there were books, and made the story drawn from them utterly soul-searingly terrifying (I was five when it came out, but it's freaky as hell even now). They did it right, if disturbingly.
Thoughts? Links to your favorite Dorothy/Ozma? Contemplation of Glinda and her massive all-girl parties?
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