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kerravonsenWell, I finally saw Tin Man today (on DVD). Now I understand why people like it (and why, I gather, many people ship D.G. and Cain). I'm not sure whether it's meant to be a remake or a sequel, since it has elements of both. Heaps and heaps of echoes of the original, and yet it isn't the same plot.
I'd gotten the impression, from what people had said about it, that it was a "post-Apocalyptic Oz", and I still think that's a reasonably good description, because the place is full of ruins and devastation and decay, and the hard edge that makes one think of things like Mad Max; a touch of steampunk mixed in with the magic.
It's one of those stories that have more than one level; it could easily have been done in a shallow, superficial way, and yet, somehow, I think partly because of the calibre of the actors, it was deeper than that. Sure, there were many things I could see coming a mile off, but that didn't matter.
I figured as soon as we saw The Seeker that he was actually D.G.'s father, though I'm not sure what twigged me to it.
I'd actually been spoiled for the reveal that D.G. stood for "Dorothy Gale", since I stumbled upon a discussion of how that didn't jibe with the books, since Ozma was the Queen of Oz, not Dorothy. I was rather amused by the theory in that discussion, that Ozma decided she was sick of being a girl and wanted to go back to being a boy (Tip), and that Tip and Dorothy got married. Mind you, the origins of Ozma are apparently so inconsistent in Oz canon that one more inconsistency is par for the course, I guess.
There were so many places where it skated close to saccharine moralising but didn't quite tip over the edge. For example, I liked how they resolved the Cain versus Zero situation, because it avoided both the too violent and too nice options, and gave a large dollop of poetic justice instead.
So, can anyone point me towards some good Tin Man fic?
I'd gotten the impression, from what people had said about it, that it was a "post-Apocalyptic Oz", and I still think that's a reasonably good description, because the place is full of ruins and devastation and decay, and the hard edge that makes one think of things like Mad Max; a touch of steampunk mixed in with the magic.
It's one of those stories that have more than one level; it could easily have been done in a shallow, superficial way, and yet, somehow, I think partly because of the calibre of the actors, it was deeper than that. Sure, there were many things I could see coming a mile off, but that didn't matter.
I figured as soon as we saw The Seeker that he was actually D.G.'s father, though I'm not sure what twigged me to it.
I'd actually been spoiled for the reveal that D.G. stood for "Dorothy Gale", since I stumbled upon a discussion of how that didn't jibe with the books, since Ozma was the Queen of Oz, not Dorothy. I was rather amused by the theory in that discussion, that Ozma decided she was sick of being a girl and wanted to go back to being a boy (Tip), and that Tip and Dorothy got married. Mind you, the origins of Ozma are apparently so inconsistent in Oz canon that one more inconsistency is par for the course, I guess.
There were so many places where it skated close to saccharine moralising but didn't quite tip over the edge. For example, I liked how they resolved the Cain versus Zero situation, because it avoided both the too violent and too nice options, and gave a large dollop of poetic justice instead.
So, can anyone point me towards some good Tin Man fic?
