Alice on SyFy
A Review
By June K. Williams

Whether your first Alice was a Disney movie or the original book by Reverend Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll, there is a good chance you were enchanted by the tales as a child. There seems to have been nearly as many retellings of her adventures in Wonderland as those of Romeo and Juliet. The challenge is to make the story relevant and accessible to the audience be it for people of the early 21st century or colonists circling a distant star a thousand years from now. Certain elements must be constant. A journey from the mundane world by a girl with a young impressionable mind to a place populated with strange people and creatures whose actions and motives are a mystery. Whatever interior logic exists in this place is inaccessible to Alice. She is trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces and the puzzle keeps rearranging itself as she tries to fit them together. She, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, is looking to return home. Read More→