The Oz-verse and its connections to Glee

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Well, here it is: My very first well-thought-out piece of meta analysis of Glee. It has to do with the multitude of Oz references that are made on that show and that reflects on the characters and on their narratives. Let's cut to the chase.

Oz is an enormous cultural phenomenon. It began as a beautiful if formulaic children's novel in 1900, The

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[wthis_pattys]

also, the ~three male leads~ when introduced:
Finn has no brain, Jesse has no heart, Blaine has no courage

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Nice connection!

[mzminola]

And in the early books (I don't know if it changed in the later ones?) you could only get to Oz from the air. Balloons, storms, something enchanted to fly.

They got to New York via airplane.

This is fantastic and I'm so glad you wrote it.

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Oh, really good catch!

Travel to Oz is always precipitated by either a natural disaster or magic. Getting back to America can originally be accomplished merely by taking chances in a hot air balloon. It gets progressively difficult to get in and out of Oz once magical barriers go up in Book 6, but the protagonists usually have magical artifacts to help them along.

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Edited to talk about the season 1 performance of "Over the Rainbow".