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meganbmoore) wrote2008-03-13 02:29 pm
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Tin Man: episode 1
Tin Man is a steampunk retelling of The Wizard of Oz that ever so many people went nuts about last year.
Dorothy is now D.G. a motorcycle riding waitress from Kansas who dreams of another world, and draws pictures from her dreams and hangs them on the wall of her attic bedroom. She also, naturally, dreams of escaping her small life and seeing the world. She gets her wish in a way she never expected when strange men invade her house during a tornado that carries her and her parents away. Waking up in a strange forest with two suns in the sky, she finds herself separated from her parents and surrounded by little painted men babbling that they're the resistance and she's a spy for Askadelia, the evil sorceress who rules the world known as the O.Z.(Outer Zone.)
Soon, she meets Glitch, a man who thinks he used to be important and maybe an inventor and possibly an advisor, but he's not sure because half his brain was removed because he knew too much, who tells her he'll lead her to the yellow brick road her father once told her about. Except that Glitch forgets how to get there. Along the way they meet Cain, a former lawman who joined the resistance against Askadelia and who was tortured and had his family tortured and possibly killed before it, and was then locked inside a tin cage and forced to rewatch the beating and loss of his family on an endless loop for years before D.G. and Glitch freed him. Glitch thinks he may have invented the device that made the scene play over and over. With Cain to guide them through the dangerous territories(he just happens to be going the same way) they make good time, and along the way they pick up Raw, a humanoid lion with psychic abilities.
Dorothy is now D.G. a motorcycle riding waitress from Kansas who dreams of another world, and draws pictures from her dreams and hangs them on the wall of her attic bedroom. She also, naturally, dreams of escaping her small life and seeing the world. She gets her wish in a way she never expected when strange men invade her house during a tornado that carries her and her parents away. Waking up in a strange forest with two suns in the sky, she finds herself separated from her parents and surrounded by little painted men babbling that they're the resistance and she's a spy for Askadelia, the evil sorceress who rules the world known as the O.Z.(Outer Zone.)
Soon, she meets Glitch, a man who thinks he used to be important and maybe an inventor and possibly an advisor, but he's not sure because half his brain was removed because he knew too much, who tells her he'll lead her to the yellow brick road her father once told her about. Except that Glitch forgets how to get there. Along the way they meet Cain, a former lawman who joined the resistance against Askadelia and who was tortured and had his family tortured and possibly killed before it, and was then locked inside a tin cage and forced to rewatch the beating and loss of his family on an endless loop for years before D.G. and Glitch freed him. Glitch thinks he may have invented the device that made the scene play over and over. With Cain to guide them through the dangerous territories(he just happens to be going the same way) they make good time, and along the way they pick up Raw, a humanoid lion with psychic abilities.
Before long, D.G. learns that her parents aren't really her parents, but rather robots programmed to love her, and that her real mother had them take and hide her for protection. Naturally, we soon learn that D.G. is actually the lost princess of the frozen north, and Askedelia her evil sister who has their mother imprisoned. (If you don't have most of that figured out in some character combination in the first half hour, you probably don't read or watch most of this kind of fiction.)
D.G. could stand to tone it down a little, but so far she's pretty decent. Most of her reactions, at least, make pretty good sense, and she always does her best. Zooey Deschanel also looks and sounds enough(esp. the near identical inflection and accent) like her sister that I keep looking for David Boreaniz to come running to the rescue. Cain I like a lot and he's pretty much perfect in the "bitter and tragic man kept alive only for revenge and because he has to protect someone" role. If he didn't have someone(D.G.) who needed his protection and who talked him out of his more hate-ridden(self and otherwise) and borderline suicidal moments, he probably would have gotten himself killed already out of the whole "nothing but revenge to live for" bit. They already have the lost princess/reluctant knight protector bit down pat. Askadelia is rather fun as a scenery chewing villain and the actress is clearly having the time of her life, but not a whole lot else just yet. Glitch is amusing and Raw could use a hug, but both mostly seem to be there to help move the plot along so far.
It's not the best thing ever and has it's share of camp, but it's very fun and a good adventure and (for TV) has some amazing effects and some pretty cool ideas in the reimagining. And did I mention that it's steampunk?
D.G. could stand to tone it down a little, but so far she's pretty decent. Most of her reactions, at least, make pretty good sense, and she always does her best. Zooey Deschanel also looks and sounds enough(esp. the near identical inflection and accent) like her sister that I keep looking for David Boreaniz to come running to the rescue. Cain I like a lot and he's pretty much perfect in the "bitter and tragic man kept alive only for revenge and because he has to protect someone" role. If he didn't have someone(D.G.) who needed his protection and who talked him out of his more hate-ridden(self and otherwise) and borderline suicidal moments, he probably would have gotten himself killed already out of the whole "nothing but revenge to live for" bit. They already have the lost princess/reluctant knight protector bit down pat. Askadelia is rather fun as a scenery chewing villain and the actress is clearly having the time of her life, but not a whole lot else just yet. Glitch is amusing and Raw could use a hug, but both mostly seem to be there to help move the plot along so far.
It's not the best thing ever and has it's share of camp, but it's very fun and a good adventure and (for TV) has some amazing effects and some pretty cool ideas in the reimagining. And did I mention that it's steampunk?