personally its not the xena type stuff thats took me out of the program … the story is good but sometimes it feels like they introduce stuff and don’t follow it up … like the little people and the whole scenes with them are just difficult to watch because it almost seemed like the actor/actress’ weren’t into it or something. but overall the story seems to have a really good start and i will watch the next part tomorrow 
I finished watching the last episode last night, and I’ll give the entire show an “Ehh”. It looked like it could have been great. I liked the reimaged characters, especially the Tin man, the Lion and the Scarecrow, but it seemed to stray too much into cliches and wandered around getting lost in different ideas that didn’t go anywhere.
After the first episode, I was a little disappointed, but I still held out hope that it would be better later on, but it remained mediocre for all three episodes. One thing that made me loose faith in the effort was that somewhere after the first episode, I read that the screenplay was written by by the writers of the new Flash Gordon, and it looks like they copied one of the latest episodes of FG for TIn man or vis versa.
I would have like to have seen RDM’s take on the story, but it would be REALLY dark. I think the best producer to do this properly would have been Joss Wedon.
Thanks AT. You’ve saved me from wasting 5 hours of my life watching the rest of Tin Man. I got to around the part where they enter Central City. Like you, I was getting the feeling that it was okay and was hoping it would get better.
But sounds like it don’t.
Also, on the last GWC Podcast Sean gave it an “Ehh” assesment. So I’m gonna take that 6 hour VCR tape and tape over it. (Man, I gotta ask Santa for TiVo or DVR. VCRs are a pain.)
I thought the first 2 hours were very well done…the last 4 not so much. Parts 2 and 3 didn’t keep my interest as well as the first.
I completely agree. Part 1 was really good but it definitely started to slide. I would say that I’m definitely not going to be buying it on DVD, but if a marathon was on, on a Saturday afternoon where I had nothing else to do, I would sit down and watch it.
Oh and Gryper, I’m glad to meet someone else who shares my affinity for ELF culture!
I recorded it to DVD so I’ll watch it again sometime. This mini was not that bad and a lot better than their “monster” movies that they play over and over. Visually it was great, it just seemed that the story got bogged down to me.
I love elves, spent last weekend drool…erm…rewatching LOTR movies. Actually I love Christmas movies in general. My sig has changed to quotes from my favorite now.
I watched the first episode and have decided to pass on the rest. I thought the acting and story were very poor, considering all the hype and the quality I’ve come to expect from Skiffy. I think hanging out in the forum is a better use of my time.
According to Wired, it was a big hit for Skiffy:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/12/sci-fi-channels.html
I held off for a while on this series, and just watched the pilot last night. I had some pretty high expectations, given the cast…NOT Miss Dechanel, of course, who I believe someone stated elsewhere in the forum about her inability to act her way out of a paper bag…but Alan Cumming (who was exceptional in Titus), Rennie (I mean come on, Leoben?) and Dreyfuss should have raised the bar on the quality of work across the board here…but alas. It feels hastily written, relies heavily on obtuse character interaction, and appears to be more of a “hey, look what a cheeky rewrite we’ve done!” tone than anything else.
I’m not digging another episode deeper unless someone can step in and say it somehow redeems itself later…
Sadly, it doesn’t, imo. It was pretty, but the story just fell flat on it’s butt.
The evil sister is the star of the show! I just watched episode 2… she dropped her shawl (check out how intently the camera was focused on her chest!) and ordered her tatoos to fly out of her chest (sic) to find her sister, (i.e. the Deschanel sister…the scene was like something out of Elektra) …
PS Tight, TIGHT corset = lots of cleavage… 
Addendum : The evil sister is Azkadellia and she wore a peach bustier in that scene where bat-monkeys flew out of her chest ( I-kid-you-not )
See what I mean (especially the cleavage & flying monkeys bit) right here : http://clothesmonaut.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/