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Has anyone heard anything about 'Tin Man'?
POSTED BY: SAVEWASH
UPDATED: Friday, December 7, 2007 03:43
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Friday, December 7, 2007 3:43 AM
Quote:Ah, but you forget that DG exonerates the villain, so the villain’s lair now becomes the heroes lair.
Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
The only cliche' they ommitted was to make the witch's tower collapse upon her defeat. Don't they know that every evil villian's lair must spontaneously collapse upon their defeat?
By the end of the first installment I think I was certain of two things. The evil witch was DG’s sister and DG would “talk her down” at the very end.
Quote:And people wonder why I act as if screenwriters are overpaid.
Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
This is my torture: I have experienced superior storytellers like Joss and now most other media sources fail to measure up.
What amazed me was how well everyone took everything. DG discovers that her parents are robots and her life has been a lie and she barely bats an eye. Then she saves her sister from the wicked witch and they hug like she visiting for Christmas. About the only thing DG showed any emotion about was being the cause of her sister’s downfall, but even that seemed out of place, because wouldn’t DG feel more regretful shock?
Still, crappy story or not, I did enjoy it for the novelty of it.
The first thing I would have changed is DG’s parents. The kindly Kansas mom and dad aren’t critical to the story. They could have been replaced with dispassionate, cold and insensitive parents, but parents that nonetheless were extremely protective of their daughter. DG grew up safe but unloved and unhappy. Then when DG gets to OZ and discovers her parents are robots, her parents prove to be a kind of foreshadowing. DG feels a certain connection to her robot parents, but doesn’t really miss them, making the coming transition to princess of OZ a more acceptable and romantic thing. It’s still a cliché. The young girl who wants to escape a troubled childhood in fairytales, but it’s one that would have worked better.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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