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Tin Man (2007): Fandom Overview
Hi! I'm doing driving a Small Fandom van this month and I have been covering the wonderful Syfy miniseries Tin Man. If you've never seen the miniseries, or need a quick refresher before jumping into the fanfic, this is your place to start!
To whet your appetite before jumping under the cut …
Pretty, y/y?
Tin Man is a six-hour miniseries created by Syfy (then SciFi) that aired December 2-4, 2007. The story is a re-imagining of Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, similar to the re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica or the Looking Glass Wars (Alice in Wonderland) - same (or similar, or recognizable) characters and a recognizable plot, but with a very different look, setting, and themes.
"Tin Man" is inventive and dark. This is not your grandparents' "The Wizard of Oz." "Tin Man" is dark both visually and tonally - it's set against a background that's vaguely steampunk, a fairy tale turned on its head. Here, Oz is the O.Z. (Outer Zone) that has been taken over by the dark forces of witch Azkadellia.
Other:
The Mystic Man (Richard Dreyfuss), analagous to the Wizard of Oz, doesn't play quite the important role he did in the original; to diminish his influence, Az facilitates his addiction to psychotropic "vapors," rendering him unfocused and unintelligible. However, he comes out of his stupor to reveal that he helped Lavender Eyes hide D.G. years ago.
Zero (Callum Keith Rennie) is Az's right-hand man. Not much is known about him, but he was one of the Longcoats to imprison Cain.
Ahamo (Ted Whittall), the former Prince-Consort and biological father of Az and D.G.
Tutor/Toto (Blu Mankuma), a shapeshifter who transforms into a dog, and a magic tutor to Az and D.G. as children. After a long imprisonment, Az agrees to set him free if he spies on D.G.'s progress for her.
Plenty has been spoiled for you above, but here is what happens from beginning to end - which, because I'm crap at summarizing, is copypasta'd directly from the Wikipedia article:
DG is a small-town waitress who feels that she does not fit into her Kansas farm life and has visions of a lavender-eyed woman warning her that a storm is coming. Her visions are realized when the sorceress Azkadellia, tyrannical ruler of the O.Z. (Outer Zone), sends her Longcoat soldiers through a travel storm to kill DG. Escaping into the travel storm, DG finds herself in the O.Z. where she meets Glitch, who had half of his brain removed by Azkadellia, and Wyatt Cain, a former law enforcer, or "Tin Man", who had been locked in an iron suit for years as punishment for opposing Azkadellia's rule. The trio next encounters a "viewer" named Raw. DG receives a magical symbol on her palm and learns that her Kansan parents are androids and that her real mother is the lavender-eyed woman of her visions. Visiting the Mystic Man in Central City and then the Northern Island, the group learns that Glitch was once the advisor to the Queen of the O.Z. and that DG and Azkadellia are both sisters and the Queen's daughters. DG remembers that Azkadellia killed her using magic when they were children, but their mother revived her by magic and gave her secret instructions on how to find the Emerald of the Eclipse, which Azkadellia now seeks. Azkadellia confronts the group with her Longcoats and mobats, capturing DG and Raw. Cain fights the Longcoat captain Zero and learns that his wife and son, whom he thought Zero had killed, are still alive. Zero shoots Cain, sending him falling into a lake of ice.
Glitch rescues and revives Cain, and they journey to Azkadellia's castle to rescue DG. Azkadellia interrogates DG, learning that the Emerald of the Eclipse is protected by the "Gray Gale". The Mystic Man is killed by Azkadellia after advising DG to head south. DG is freed by a small dog who is revealed to be a shapeshifter named Tutor, her childhood teacher who is also nicknamed Toto. DG, Glitch, Raw, and Cain head south with Tutor, not knowing that he is marking their path for Azkadellia's mobats to follow. Along the way DG rediscovers some of her magical abilities by restoring a withered fruit tree in the fields of the Papay, and Cain discovers his wife's grave. More of DG's memories return in the lake country of Finaqua: As children she and Azkadellia were very close, but that changed when DG accidentally released the spirit of an ancient, evil witch from a cave. The sisters' magic would have protected them if they stuck together, but DG fled and the witch possessed Azkadellia. DG realizes that all of the tragedies which have befallen the O.Z. are the result of her mistakes as a child.
The party heads farther south in search of DG's father Ahamo. Tutor's treachery is discovered but he is allowed to stay with the group in his canine form. In the Realm of the Unwanted they are led into a trap: Glitch, Raw, and Cain are captured by Zero, but are freed by resistance fighters led by Cain's son Jeb (Andrew Francis). Zero reveals the scope of Azkadellia's plan, which is to use the Emerald of the Eclipse in combination with a machine called the Sun Seeder to lock the O.Z.'s two suns in place behind the moon during an upcoming eclipse, covering the land in permanent darkness. The Sun Seeder had been designed by Glitch during his time as the Queen's advisor, and the removed portion of his brain is being used to control it. Meanwhile, DG meets Ahamo and the two travel by hot air balloon to the hidden mausoleum of the O.Z.'s royal line. DG learns that the Gray Gale is Dorothy Gale, her "greatest great-grandmother" and "the first slipper" to travel to the O.Z. from Earth. She enters Dorothy's tomb, finding herself in a black-and-white representation of her Kansas farm and receiving the Emerald from Dorothy. Azkadellia arrives, capturing both Ahamo and the Emerald and leaving DG trapped in a sarcophagus. DG escapes using magic and is reunited with her friends, and together they infiltrate Azkadellia's fortress as she locks the suns in place. DG clasps hands with Azkadellia, freeing her from the witch's possession just as her companions reverse the Sun Seeder's pulse, destroying the witch. DG and Azkadellia are reunited with their parents as the suns emerge from behind the moon, shedding their light on the O.Z.
And 'lo, there was muchotp obsession pr0n shipping. There are ships for just about everything - the *Yay is everywhere! - but 80% of all Tin Man ships contain Cain. Tortured past, emotional issues, dead family, revenge quest? The man is eminently shippable.
I mean, just look at him.
I've only been in the fandom for a short while, and I'm not familiar with all corners of the fandom, so if I missed an (active) community, let me know and I'll add it in.
General
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tinman_fans
tinman_meta
tinmanaddicts
the_o_z
Fanfiction
tinman_fic
tm_challenge (recently re-opened)
tm_ficfest - 10-Prompt Challenge
tinman100 - Drabble Challenge
tmfictionawards - Fanfiction Awards
ohzeebooks - Writing Workshop/Discussion (?)
tinman_in_cuffs - Kink Comm
thegraygale - Recs Comm
Tin Man at Yuletide
Graphics
tin_man_icons
Characters
rawesometm
glitch_fanfic
Ships
tin_and_straw (Cain/Glitch)
glitch_wyatt (Cain/Glitch)
dg_cain (Cain/DG)
tin_and_jewels (Cain/DG)
dg_glitch (DG/Glitch)
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jeb_az (Az/Jeb)
azkadellia_zero (Az/Zero)
azkadellia_x_dg (Az/DG)
** There are more links at The Newbie's Guide to Tin Man Fandom.
And if you think there's something I should add (like something that should obviously be part of a fandom overview - my brain's pinging at me, but I can't figure it out), let me know. (I'm not a big shipper myself, but if someone wants to write a quick overview of their favorite, I'll be happy to include it.)
To whet your appetite before jumping under the cut …
Pretty, y/y?
Tin Man is a six-hour miniseries created by Syfy (then SciFi) that aired December 2-4, 2007. The story is a re-imagining of Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, similar to the re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica or the Looking Glass Wars (Alice in Wonderland) - same (or similar, or recognizable) characters and a recognizable plot, but with a very different look, setting, and themes.
"Tin Man" is inventive and dark. This is not your grandparents' "The Wizard of Oz." "Tin Man" is dark both visually and tonally - it's set against a background that's vaguely steampunk, a fairy tale turned on its head. Here, Oz is the O.Z. (Outer Zone) that has been taken over by the dark forces of witch Azkadellia.
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Our heroine and Dorothy-counterpart is D.G. (Zooey Deschanel), a part-time college student and waitress living in Kansas with her parents. An artist, she feels like there is something more to her life and that she doesn't fit in where she is. She is visited in her dreams by a mysterious lavender-eyed woman who warns her that "a storm is coming." Azkadellia hears that she might be overthrown, and sends her Longcoats to find and kill her by way of Travel Storm. However, D.G. jumps into the Travel Storm to escape them and lands in Munchkin-land. In her journey to get home, D.G. learns that her parents are actually androids, programmed to prepare her for her journey into the O.Z., and that Lavender Eyes is her biological mother. |
| Playing the Scarecrow role, Alan Cummings is Glitch, a former advisor to the Queen of the O.Z. He is D.G.'s first companion when she is whisked to the O.Z. and they're imprisoned by the Munchkin-equivalents. Azkadellia removed half his brain for her own nefarious reasons, and he does not remember his former name, so he calls himself "Glitch" for his numerous tics and neural glitches. |  |
 | Neal McDonough plays Wyatt Cain, a tin man and the titular character of the miniseries. However, he's not actually a metallic woodsman - in this O.Z., a "tin man" is a policeman, identifiable by the tin badge. When D.G. and Glitch come across him, he's been trapped in an iron suit for several years and forced to watch a hologram of his wife and son being taken away on infinite loop. He comes out of the iron suit embittered and cynical. Like the original Tin Man, Cain's struggle is to recover his heart. |
| Raw (Raoul Trujillo) is one of a telepathic (telempathic?) race known as "Viewers," who can see into people's hearts and into the future. Azkadellia employs them liberally in her regime, but Raw has escaped, running away to save his own hide. His unique skills help D.G. and Glitch recover their memories and pasts. |  |
 | The wicked witch Azkadellia (Kathleen Robertson) has taken over the O.Z. and plans to cast the country into total darkness, with help from an adapted Sun-Seeder machine and the Emerald of the Eclipse. As D.G. struggles to recover her memories of the O.Z., however, we learn that Princess Azkadellia wasn't always like this - she's being possessed by an evil witch as a result of D.G.'s mistake. Possessed!Az kills D.G. as a child, not discovering that she was alive until her younger sister's return to the O.Z. |
| Played by Anna Galvin, Lavender Eyes is the former Queen of the O.Z., mother of two princesses subject to a prophecy. After Az takes over the O.Z., imprisoning her mother, Lavender Eyes appears to D.G. in a dream, warning her that "a storm is coming." When the possessed!Az kills D.G. as a child, the Queen uses a significant amount of her power to bring her back to life, her diminished magic paving the way for Az to overthrow her. Lavender Eyes locks away D.G.'s memories and sets her up on the Other Side (our world) with a pair of robo-parents whose job it is to tell her the stories of the O.Z., preparing her for her eventual return. |  |
Other:
The Mystic Man (Richard Dreyfuss), analagous to the Wizard of Oz, doesn't play quite the important role he did in the original; to diminish his influence, Az facilitates his addiction to psychotropic "vapors," rendering him unfocused and unintelligible. However, he comes out of his stupor to reveal that he helped Lavender Eyes hide D.G. years ago.
Zero (Callum Keith Rennie) is Az's right-hand man. Not much is known about him, but he was one of the Longcoats to imprison Cain.
Ahamo (Ted Whittall), the former Prince-Consort and biological father of Az and D.G.
Tutor/Toto (Blu Mankuma), a shapeshifter who transforms into a dog, and a magic tutor to Az and D.G. as children. After a long imprisonment, Az agrees to set him free if he spies on D.G.'s progress for her.
Plenty has been spoiled for you above, but here is what happens from beginning to end - which, because I'm crap at summarizing, is copypasta'd directly from the Wikipedia article:
DG is a small-town waitress who feels that she does not fit into her Kansas farm life and has visions of a lavender-eyed woman warning her that a storm is coming. Her visions are realized when the sorceress Azkadellia, tyrannical ruler of the O.Z. (Outer Zone), sends her Longcoat soldiers through a travel storm to kill DG. Escaping into the travel storm, DG finds herself in the O.Z. where she meets Glitch, who had half of his brain removed by Azkadellia, and Wyatt Cain, a former law enforcer, or "Tin Man", who had been locked in an iron suit for years as punishment for opposing Azkadellia's rule. The trio next encounters a "viewer" named Raw. DG receives a magical symbol on her palm and learns that her Kansan parents are androids and that her real mother is the lavender-eyed woman of her visions. Visiting the Mystic Man in Central City and then the Northern Island, the group learns that Glitch was once the advisor to the Queen of the O.Z. and that DG and Azkadellia are both sisters and the Queen's daughters. DG remembers that Azkadellia killed her using magic when they were children, but their mother revived her by magic and gave her secret instructions on how to find the Emerald of the Eclipse, which Azkadellia now seeks. Azkadellia confronts the group with her Longcoats and mobats, capturing DG and Raw. Cain fights the Longcoat captain Zero and learns that his wife and son, whom he thought Zero had killed, are still alive. Zero shoots Cain, sending him falling into a lake of ice.
Glitch rescues and revives Cain, and they journey to Azkadellia's castle to rescue DG. Azkadellia interrogates DG, learning that the Emerald of the Eclipse is protected by the "Gray Gale". The Mystic Man is killed by Azkadellia after advising DG to head south. DG is freed by a small dog who is revealed to be a shapeshifter named Tutor, her childhood teacher who is also nicknamed Toto. DG, Glitch, Raw, and Cain head south with Tutor, not knowing that he is marking their path for Azkadellia's mobats to follow. Along the way DG rediscovers some of her magical abilities by restoring a withered fruit tree in the fields of the Papay, and Cain discovers his wife's grave. More of DG's memories return in the lake country of Finaqua: As children she and Azkadellia were very close, but that changed when DG accidentally released the spirit of an ancient, evil witch from a cave. The sisters' magic would have protected them if they stuck together, but DG fled and the witch possessed Azkadellia. DG realizes that all of the tragedies which have befallen the O.Z. are the result of her mistakes as a child.
The party heads farther south in search of DG's father Ahamo. Tutor's treachery is discovered but he is allowed to stay with the group in his canine form. In the Realm of the Unwanted they are led into a trap: Glitch, Raw, and Cain are captured by Zero, but are freed by resistance fighters led by Cain's son Jeb (Andrew Francis). Zero reveals the scope of Azkadellia's plan, which is to use the Emerald of the Eclipse in combination with a machine called the Sun Seeder to lock the O.Z.'s two suns in place behind the moon during an upcoming eclipse, covering the land in permanent darkness. The Sun Seeder had been designed by Glitch during his time as the Queen's advisor, and the removed portion of his brain is being used to control it. Meanwhile, DG meets Ahamo and the two travel by hot air balloon to the hidden mausoleum of the O.Z.'s royal line. DG learns that the Gray Gale is Dorothy Gale, her "greatest great-grandmother" and "the first slipper" to travel to the O.Z. from Earth. She enters Dorothy's tomb, finding herself in a black-and-white representation of her Kansas farm and receiving the Emerald from Dorothy. Azkadellia arrives, capturing both Ahamo and the Emerald and leaving DG trapped in a sarcophagus. DG escapes using magic and is reunited with her friends, and together they infiltrate Azkadellia's fortress as she locks the suns in place. DG clasps hands with Azkadellia, freeing her from the witch's possession just as her companions reverse the Sun Seeder's pulse, destroying the witch. DG and Azkadellia are reunited with their parents as the suns emerge from behind the moon, shedding their light on the O.Z.
And 'lo, there was much
I mean, just look at him.
I've only been in the fandom for a short while, and I'm not familiar with all corners of the fandom, so if I missed an (active) community, let me know and I'll add it in.
General
tinman_fanstinman_metatinmanaddictsthe_o_zFanfiction
tinman_fictm_challenge (recently re-opened)tm_ficfest - 10-Prompt Challengetinman100 - Drabble Challengetmfictionawards - Fanfiction Awardsohzeebooks - Writing Workshop/Discussion (?)tinman_in_cuffs - Kink Commthegraygale - Recs CommTin Man at Yuletide
Graphics
tin_man_iconsCharacters
rawesometmglitch_fanficShips
tin_and_straw (Cain/Glitch)glitch_wyatt (Cain/Glitch)dg_cain (Cain/DG)tin_and_jewels (Cain/DG)dg_glitch (DG/Glitch)jeb_az (Az/Jeb)azkadellia_zero (Az/Zero)azkadellia_x_dg (Az/DG)** There are more links at The Newbie's Guide to Tin Man Fandom.
And if you think there's something I should add (like something that should obviously be part of a fandom overview - my brain's pinging at me, but I can't figure it out), let me know. (I'm not a big shipper myself, but if someone wants to write a quick overview of their favorite, I'll be happy to include it.)
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*off to check out the list of comms*
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*hurries off to read recced stories*
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Seriously, if you haven't seen this 3 part series, go find a copy NOW!
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