Disney's The Legend of Tarzan

[ShadowStar]

There's one thing about the show that confuses me: why is it that the treehouse is inland in the show but off on its own by the sea in the Disney movie? The show continues the movie's story so why is the treehouse in a different location?

[Tobias]

Maybe they moved it. With Jane and her father now living in the jungle, they'd need a place to stay near Tarzan so he could keep them safe. The treehouse in it's original location I believe wasn't anywhere near where the apes lived, so it was more convenient to build a treehouse in the ape's habitat.

[Peter Paltridge]

The show was just sloppy. Queen La had two different origin episodes. With only 39 shows to make you'd think someone would have caught that.

[ShadowStar]

Maybe they moved it. With Jane and her father now living in the jungle, they'd need a place to stay near Tarzan so he could keep them safe. The treehouse in it's original location I believe wasn't anywhere near where the apes lived, so it was more convenient to build a treehouse in the ape's habitat.

Makes sense to me.


The show was just sloppy. Queen La had two different origin episodes. With only 39 shows to make you'd think someone would have caught that.

Huh? La was in 3 episodes: "The Lost City of Opar" (her first appearance), "The Leopard Men Rebellion" (second appearance) and "The Return of La" (final appearance). She didn't have a second origin episode.

[Peter Paltridge]

Huh? La was in 3 episodes: "The Lost City of Opar" (her first appearance), "The Leopard Men Rebellion" (second appearance) and "The Return of La" (final appearance). She didn't have a second origin episode.
You don't remember. In the first one Opar already exists and Tarzan is introduced to it for the first time; La tries to kill off Jane so she can have Tarzan.

In the third one, La is RE-introduced as this spirit who possesses Jane's body. She reconstructs Opar from ancient rubble. Both times, Tarzan isn't familiar with the place or with her.

They really did screw up this badly. If you still doubt me, ask the All-Seeing Elephant.

[ShadowStar]

You don't remember. In the first one Opar already exists and Tarzan is introduced to it for the first time; La tries to kill off Jane so she can have Tarzan.


In the third one, La is RE-introduced as this spirit who possesses Jane's body. She reconstructs Opar from ancient rubble. Both times, Tarzan isn't familiar with the place or with her.

They really did screw up this badly. If you still doubt me, ask the All-Seeing Elephant.
Are you sure that Tarzan wasn't just confused that La had managed to survive? My understanding was that she came back as a spirit after crumbling to dust in her previous appearance? I don't remember anything in the episode suggesting that Tarzan and Jane didn't already know about La. Remember, Opar was destroyed at the end of her second appearance, so she rebuilt it from the wreckage. I guess Tarzan was amazed that she had managed to do so with her magic.

I just checked "The Return of La": After taking Jane's body, La refers to Tarzan before she bumps into him. Later, the waziri mentions La to Tarzan and Tarzan replies, "Queen La? She's dead", which is an obvious reference to the previous La episode. Near the end, La-in-Jane says "Tarzan always makes things far more difficult than need be", which indicates that they've clashed before. So there aren't any continuity glitches.

And I happened to like the All-seeing Elephant episode. :p

[ShadowStar]

I have a question about this series, and I remembered that I started this thread ages ago:

Does anyone remember which episode it was that Dumont referenced "last month's fire" at the trading post?

[SecretAgent94]

Just another Disney series/sequel to cash in on the movie. Don't take it too seriously.

[SF4Ever]

Just another Disney series/sequel to cash in on the movie. Don't take it too seriously.

It's enough to make you wonder why Disney waste their time with Edgar Rice Burroughs' legendary jungle hero. Personally, I'd prefer Filmation's 1970's version- it was the most faithful version of Tarzan. In the 1970's version, Tarzan was the adventure hero, along with his pet chinp(N'Kima- Filmation declined to put Cheeta the Chimp in their series, something to do with some sort of agreement with the Burroughs estate). That show's main emphasis was adventure, confronting ecological issues and sometimes, unusual villains. Compared to Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle(1976-84), I couldn't really understand what The Legend of Tarzan was really about.