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Sci Fi Channel Wants To Return To Oz With Tin Man Series
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02/19/09
Perhaps my expectations were set to high after reading the dystopian industrial treatment of Oz in Tad Williams' Otherlands novels. It was a brief segment in a slightly-better-than-mediocre series of novels but still very evocative.
Sorry, Tin Man was just painful to watch.
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That said, though, Neal McDonough was one of the best actors on the show, and his character the most interesting, so I'd give this a go. Especially if they bring back Glitch.
02/20/09
Would it help if they recast Zooey's character with Anna Friel? They look about the same, but Anna can act.
02/20/09
That's about how I felt.
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Tin Man gets picked up, while Lost Room (arguably the best 'Original SciFi Channel production' they've ever come up with) just fades into the ether?
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INDEED.
Tin Man was badly acted and badly written tripe.
I do like the "idea" of it though.
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They're split about 50/50 because the series was kinda 50/50ish, really. There were a lot of cool concepts (although a few stinker ideas as well), and some good performances (although, much as I like her as an actress, Zooey seemed lost in this role).
However, the plot was weak, and the pacing was, at times, very off.
I'm not sure how I feel about it as a series. The original story they tried for felt like it either should have been paired down to one, 2-hour event, or fleshed out to give it more time. Of course, now that story is over, so who know if they could pull off an expanded-universe concept.
02/20/09
She didn't seem lost. She seemed stoned out of her gourd. That seems even more likely if you watch her interview clips from the bonus features.
02/19/09
02/19/09
And really--about the only things that are 10th Kingdom level are the Dune and Children of Dune series (serieses? Serii?).
Tinman could have been awesome, but IMO just settled for bizarrely endearing.
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Dune had craptastic costume designs, and Children of Dune miscast Susan Sarandon as a young lady. Try "Merlin" on for size.
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02/20/09
Just do yourself a favor and _don't_ watch the sequel, Merlin's Apprentice. It sorta works like an alternate ending to the original miniseries, only with added suck, blow, and more suck thrown in.
The important details are as follows:
1. Merlin, who is still pretty young at this point, and still has magic, picks up an apprentice.
2. Then Merlin dies.
3. Forget everything that happens in the last 5-10 minutes of the original miniseries if you expect this movie to mesh with the original.
02/19/09
Though, without the full cast, I'm not sure if it would be worth watching.
02/19/09
I sooooooo didn't hate it.
Which on the internet is the equivalent of a lost weekend with Selma Hayek and Penelope Cruz.