Tin Man - SciFi Channel Miniseries Discussion

Siren · Post by **Siren** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:53 pm

So who watched the first episode here? What did you think?

Though its not a mind-blowing episode by any means, its still fun to watch. Seeing a different take on it. And the twists so far. Such as DG's lineage. I will talk more about it later, going to watch episode 2 now

Simba3 · Post by **Simba3** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:30 pm

I really wanted to watch it, I thought it looked really good and I was happy to see that Kathleen Robertson is in it, I love her. Do you know if they will be re-airing the first episode before the second episode? Or at a later time?

slave2moonlight · Post by **slave2moonlight** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:50 am

While it definitely could have been better, there are a lot of things I like about it and the second episode really improved my view of it a lot over all.

Siren · Post by **Siren** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:21 pm

I like the fact Tin Man is a metaphor. He gets tortured for months or years watching his family get beaten. He's cold, hard, bitter, and heart broken.

Glitch is great. And I so hope to see more of Cain and Glitch together. The straight/funny guy routine is great with them. Loved how Glitch told Cain about his masculinity being to high (or something like that). And I see Alan Cummings used his training as Nightcrawler for the fighting scenes. With what he was wearing, he looked very much like Kurt from the back.

Raw hasn't really had a lot of screen time yet. I hope to see more about his past as well.

Toto/Tutor...not too keen. That is one character that is just too much. When I heard Toto was a shapeshifter, I expected a dog that could turn into some other creature(s), not a human teacher. He is cute as a dog though. Thinking Yorkie/Chih mix.

Azkadela (sp?) is fantastic. Love her flying Mon-bats. And finding out where she went wrong, so sad. I love tragic villains.

DG is good, but not as colorful, which is kinda the point. Right now, we're pretty much just following her memories.

slave2moonlight · Post by **slave2moonlight** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:39 pm

I liked Az a lot too, but she didn't really go "wrong," it was all D.G.'s fault, ha.

I would have preferred Toto as a dog all the time. Nothing against the actor though, and it was an interesting bit with wondering whether he was good or bad. But, one likes to see Toto as the cute animal sidekick and reliably good, like a Disney animal sidekick. Could have been a nice source of the familiar throughout the story. Yeah, he looks like a Yorkie mix. The original was a Cairn. They should have just gone with a Cairn, but this one was cute.

If you haven't seen part 3, I think you'll be very happy with it. Raw gets more screentime and we get more Cain/Glitch stuff too. I agree about D.G. and sometimes she was a little too dopey, but I adore Zooey so I'm cool with it. I liked it more and more with each installment, and the third was great. I was amazed at how small Richard Dreyfuss's role was. I was always expecting him to come back, especially when they were searching for a specific character in part 3. The Mo-Bats were cool, but all the CGI could have been a tad better. Hope this one gets a DVD release.

SPOILER

My little sister originally expected this to be something of a sequel to the original. I never thought that, and amazingly, it turned out it sorta was. Though, there are inconsistencies. Apparently, the lead character was a descendant of Dorothy Gale, but to me this only brought up a ton of questions that remained unanswered, and that is probably my biggest complaint, though I generally really enjoyed the whole thing.

Just Myself · Post by **Just Myself** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:44 pm

I started watching this under the impression that it was an autobiography about America, the 60's/70's band. You can imagine my dissapointment.

Does anyone know when they're going to re-air the first episode? We recorded the second and third, but totally forgot the first. =|

Cheers,
JM

slave2moonlight · Post by **slave2moonlight** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:15 pm

They're running the whole thing again on Sunday. I need to rerecord the 2nd episode, because the cable was fuzzy that day for some reason. Hope it doesn't get fuzzy again.

Harbinger · Post by **Harbinger** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:45 pm

I thought it was "meh" overall.

When I first heard about this movie, I thought it would be very futuristic or something. Like The OZ was a quadrant of space or something, and it would involve starships and whatnot.

So It wasn't what I expected. But the whole thing was filled with cliches. The ending was really anticlimactic in my opinion and kind of stupid considering the supposed dark overtone of the miniseries.

It could have been sooooo much better. I can't say I've wasted six hours of my life, but I was disappointed overall.

memnv · Post by **memnv** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:38 pm

I really enjoyed it and need to spendsix hours removing from my DVR and recording it to a dvd

Siren · Post by **Siren** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:46 pm

It was kinda a remake and a sequel in one. I guess Dorothy Gale was an ancestor of Ahamo. So its kinda like history repeating itself in the O.Z.

slave2moonlight · Post by **slave2moonlight** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 2:25 am

I need to watch it again, especially the third ep., but I got the impression that Dorothy was the ancestor on the mother's side, not Ahamo's.

I knew before hand that it was more of an other dimension than a space thing, and I'm really glad it was that way. More true to Oz that way, in my opinion. And yet, I still felt this film was closer to what I hoped the new "Flash Gordon" series would be like, ha. I lost interest after the first episode of that one.

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:46 pm

I just finished watching it and absolutely lovd it. It was such a new take on the classic and very different. The way the plot and past story evolved was amazing and the dialogue was very good too.
It was kinda like a Indiana Jones meets Star Wars meets OZ.
The ending was lovely and all, alhtough kinda corny, but I like corny

Does anybody know if it's gonna be released to DVD?

TheSequelOfDisney · Post by **TheSequelOfDisney** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:53 pm

I read on TVShowsOnDVD that it'll be on March 11, 2008. Here's the article: http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Tin-Ma ... -Date/8564

TheSequelOfDisney · Post by **TheSequelOfDisney** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:45 pm

More news on the 2-disc set coming out next March:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Tin-Ma ... tails/8592

Bonus Features So Far:
-30+ minute "Making Of Featurette"
-10 minutes beyond the yellow brick road exclusively for the DVD
-cast interviews
-gag reels
-o-ring packaging

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:15 pm

I am so so so excited for Tin Man to come out on DVD.
The extras sound really good, especially the 30minutes making-of which is a good length not just fluff as most of the 10minutes ones are.
I wonder what the "O-Ring" packaging will look like.

memnv · Post by **memnv** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:56 pm

I will be getting this dvd

xxhplinkxx · Post by **xxhplinkxx** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:42 pm

I cant wait for this on DVD!! I was only able to catch the first episode, but I totally loved it. Especially since I've been on my Oz binge lately thanks to Wicked! lol

TheSequelOfDisney · Post by **TheSequelOfDisney** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:42 am

New picture of the cover art (though I can't tell what the o-ring is) thanks to DVDActive:

And a bonus features page:

scareykatt · Post by **scareykatt** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:33 pm

I saw The Tin Man on the Hulu.

they did an amazing jog with everything.

i am very impressed with it.

i want to get it on DVD.

TheSequelOfDisney · Post by **TheSequelOfDisney** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:24 pm

New DVD packaging:

TVShowsOnDVD said that the "o-ring" packaging has been tweaked a little bit.

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