I didn’t realize they changed their name from Children’s Television Workshop. In any case, Grover can tell you all about the Sesame Street embedded videos.
I was just listening to Les Savy Fav - What Would Wolves Do?
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Tin Man
In a word; shitty. Not withholding the reverence I have for The Wizard of Oz, but this mini-series was just bad. The dialog was in the league of George Lucas but probably worse. The CG effects looked like they were done in film school. The acting was, okay. But the story overwhelmed it’s few gems with utter failures. The wrong parts were drawn out and the right parts were cut short or skipped over. Alan Cumming looked bad even though he was good. They made the one black guy Toto. Even Zooey Deschanel was a bore.
One of the only compliments I could pay is to Kathleen Robertson who is now and may have always been the better looking Beverly Hills 90210 cast member. That said, the winged monkeys flying off her supple breasts still managed to get old after the 8th or 9th time they used this effect.
Sci-Fi might have done well by Battlestar Galatica but this kind of swill is going to take them down. And this was written before the writer’s strike.
However, I am willing to believe that the writers might have had a better story than what was actually made. That is, unless the “eclipse of doom” was just deus ex machina instead of a subtle nod to Dark Side of the Moon.