I thought this looked interesting.  I’ll be recording it and watching it.

A retelling of the Wizard of Oz.

Tin Man Trailer (YouTube)

Hmmm.. I’ve never been fond of ‘bold new reimaginings’ (translation: We couldn’t come up with an idea), but that does look to possess much niftiness.

I’m highly suspicious of it, but I’m still definitely setting my TiVo to record it.

Erk
Tivo

You have my sympathies :/

Sympathies? Aside from homebrewing your own dvr, which I’m too lazy to do, since I’m already set up, TiVo is the only civilized way to watch television, IMHO.

Nah, DVR is much better

Lets see, record shows to hard drive to watch later
buffers live TV so you can go back and check something
ability to record off the buffer
ability to move stuff to dvd’s

Tivo:
Ability to be charged a monthly fee
Ability for the tivo to record shows you don’t want because you taped something it thinks is similar
Ability to have tv stations hi jack your tivo and force you to record what they want.
Ability to not be able to access your entire hard drive because part of it is reserved for said hijacking
Ability to have the people running tivo to access your hard drive and see what you watch.

Like I said, you have my sympathies.

Seriously though I’ve heard only bad things about Tivo and won’t touch it, but I’m sure you can
extol it’s virtues

davebgimp - 23 November 2007 08:59 PM

Aside from homebrewing your own dvr, which I’m too lazy to do, since I’m already set up…

Well, yeah. I think I inferred as much. I shell into my TiVO and decrypt something to a hard drive, if I want. I don’t pay for the subscription. The whole thing was free for me.

Tah - 25 October 2007 09:50 PM

I thought this looked interesting.  I’ll be recording it and watching it. A retelling of the Wizard of Oz.

Wow, The Tenth Kingdom, but in Oz! Ah, the great TV rehash reimagining. It’s like a rerun, but with a bigger budget.

I can’t watch the trailer from work (we’re blocked from YouTube), but I just thought I’d mention that there actually is a book called The Tin Woodman of Oz, also by L. Frank Baum. I know it’s not really pertinent, but opportunities to share my Wizard of Oz knowledge don’t come along every day…

Theres also a comic book series set in modern times in which Dorothy joined the CIA and acted as a government operative in Oz.  It was pretty good, surprisingly.  Scarecrow still suffered greatly from his time in a concentration camp during WWII when Axis forces under Baron Munchausen successfully invaded Oz.

I still have my collection of the trilogy of Captain Carrot comics featuring the Oz-Wonderland Wars.

There’s another comic series.. forget the name.. But imagine Dorothy Gale, Wendy Darling, and Alice Liddel all at the same sanitarium, being cared for by a kind but firm matron named Poppins…

Then there’s the very nice Lullaby comic, which has various classic fairy tales told from a different angle. I’m particularly fond of Little Red, who is part wolf, including the huffing and puffing.