"Tin Man"

[mapsedge]

Someday, the Sci-Fi channel will surprise me.  No, someday they'll shock me and produce an original movie that doesn't suck gallons of sewer water from the first frame. 

Plenty of nerve, but no heart and no brain.  A few yellow bricks short of a road.  A few munchkins short*.    Dialog a mauseating mix of modern corporate jargon  ("we were tasked with...") and archaic cliché ("I know not.")...often in the same sentence.**

Flying monkey tits...or whatever they were...puh-lease. 

Sci-Fi producers: STOP HIRING YOUR WRITERS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE NINTH GRADE.

* Double points for that one.  Hee.
** "Merlin" suffered from that, too.  It also suffered from Miranda Richardson, who was absent from "Tin Man", the mini-series' only saving grace.

Comments

[emeder.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Well, we don't have cable, haven't had it for several years, and will probably be a while in coming as well, but I know what you mean about the writers. Sheesh.

Looking forward to seeing you and the twins again Wed. night.

[fairyoffire.livejournal.com]

I like the term "Flying Boob Monkeys" personally!

[jehosefatz.livejournal.com]

"No, Bob, I know not who has been tasked with finding synergies for our competing downstream upsales in the Flying Boob Monkey lines. Perhaps that could be procured from marketing."*

- Jeho

* I need to find a way to work this into a meeting sometime this week.

[iarraidh.livejournal.com]

It is frustrating, isn't it?
All those resources, all that potential, and they continue to produce abject crap.

And I find Kathleen Robertson (Azkadellia) as threatening as Mother Theresa.
Who made this casting desision?
Or I should ask on what couch?
She wasn't any good in 90210, and with those tiny eyes and perpetual monoexpression she's pure cardboard.

sigh

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.. Bill, since I absolutely have trust in your opinion of what constitutes as crap, I'll run with it. I did check out their website... sort of like looking at a Myspace page of too much glam. Just more motivation to write my own version of the Oz stories, but sticking more with the what Baum meant. And if they're going to use "I know not who..." they could have at least made it proper. "I know not whom..." Yeah, ever since I read the reviews of Flash Gordon, and found out they offer WRESTLING for Gods sake, I'm glad I don't have sci-fi.

[tncs.livejournal.com]

oh this makes me very, very sad to hear.... i've been recording it thinking the show would be amazing. and i've now prepared myself for a big, fat "delete".

[rhiannontherose.livejournal.com]

Thank you for once again making me feel good about not having TV.

I did see "Merlin", way back...we rented it, figuring it had potential (hey, the last made-for-TV fantasy flick I'd seen was "Mists of Avalon", which I actually enjoyed)...oh, how wrong we were. I think the only moment of satisfaction I got from "Merlin" was when I figured out where I'd seen the fellow who played young Merlin, before. (He was Sam in "Shakespeare in Love" -- the actor with ill-timed puberty.) It drives me nuts when I recognize a face and can't figure out why.

[glesyn.livejournal.com]

dang.
well that blows. They did an enormous media blitz (on MSNBC of all places) apparently for nothing.

'course, I like Zooey D. I ran right out and bought Hitchhiker's as soon as it hit the stores.