Post by richardburton on May 15, 2008 10:53:44 GMT 1
Did anyone else see the first episode of Tin Man on Sci-Fi on Sunday?
It's a re-imagining of the Wizard of Oz with a young woman returning to the OZ (Outer Zone) to find the Emerald City decaying and vice ridden and a homicidal sorceress ruling with an iron fist.
There's some great touches with the Tin Man being slang for a cop, so he's a human cop who is lacking heart, the lion is a mystic and the scarecrow was an enemy of the sorceress who had half of his brain removed. Richard Dreyfuss has a nice little cameo as the old wizard who is now a drug addict performing cheap stage shows. There's also robots (including nurchure units...), the flying monkeys that strout out of the tattoos on the sorceresses chest (and a nice chest it is too!) and many other things.
Overall was very impressed with the first episode and looking forward to the next one this Sunday.
It's a re-imagining of the Wizard of Oz with a young woman returning to the OZ (Outer Zone) to find the Emerald City decaying and vice ridden and a homicidal sorceress ruling with an iron fist.
There's some great touches with the Tin Man being slang for a cop, so he's a human cop who is lacking heart, the lion is a mystic and the scarecrow was an enemy of the sorceress who had half of his brain removed. Richard Dreyfuss has a nice little cameo as the old wizard who is now a drug addict performing cheap stage shows. There's also robots (including nurchure units...), the flying monkeys that strout out of the tattoos on the sorceresses chest (and a nice chest it is too!) and many other things.
Overall was very impressed with the first episode and looking forward to the next one this Sunday.
