Being an avid fan of anything having to do with Alice in Wonderland, I watched the first episode of the two part Alice series on the Syfy channel. So far, this version is absolutely nothing like any of the hundreds of other cartoons, movies, and video games based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

Summary of Alice Syfy
Basically, the first Syfy episode was about a grown up version of Alice who takes a trip into Wonderland so that she can find her boyfriend, who has been kidnapped by a man working for the White Rabbit Corporation. Before he is kidnapped, her boyfriend gives her a strange ring that allows her to cross over from the real world into Wonderland. When she arrives in Wonderland, Alice is captured by the White Rabbit Corporation, but she quickly escapes. She soon meets the Hatter, who says that he wants to help her. The Hatter tells her about how the White Rabbit Corporation kidnaps people from the real world, and then drains their positive emotions to make magical elixirs, which is then sold like a drug to the people of Wonderland.

The Queen of Hearts
Next, the Queen of Hearts, who is the head of the White Rabbit Corporation, sends the March Hare and a team of foot soldiers after Alice. The March Hare is a highly skilled assassin with a rabbit shaped cookie jar for a head. Anyway, Alice is eventually captured and brought before the Queen of Hearts. The Queen then explains that Alice’s boyfriend is actually the Prince of Hearts, and that he is already engaged to the Duchess. At the end of the episode, Alice is sent to Agents Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum for questioning.

So far this series isn’t the best version of Alice in Wonderland that I’ve seen, but I do find it entertaining to see all of the different adaptations that are out there. I’ll watch the last half of the series tonight before I make a final judgment on whether it is good or not. By the way, I skipped over the parts about the Dodo, the White Knight and the Jabberwocky, because they didn’t seem very important to the story.