Terrible writing

Don't whine at me. I didn't start it; the OP was the one who brought it up.

Anyway, even though it's not exactly a remake, a lot of people compare it to the original nonetheless, and somehow this one is almost always found wanting. So like I said, I don't recommend comparing the two, because Tin Man is pretty good on its own, and a comparison can color your opinion.

Cross my heart, smack me dead, stick a lobster on my head.

I really struggled to watch this schlock. It was like reading bad fan fiction, especially with that whole "Dorothy is the Chosen One" angle that they were taking.

Also, it's often excrutiatingly obvious that certain things were only in the script for budgetary reasons - first of which being, the Tin Man is not tin because they couldn't get the budget together for good enough VFX/Makeup. He dresses like a cowboy so they had an excuse to shoot scenes in touristy Old West ghost towns in Utah/Colorado, rather than build sets themselves (this also saved money on costume, because his whole getup was probably looted from a studio backlot), and the Emerald City now resembles a beaten up version of New York so they could recycle sets from other movies which had a similar mise-en-scene.

These terrible little production flaws consistently break the fourth wall and make it nigh unwatchable, and that's before we get to the writing or the acting. Clearly they blew the entire budget on hiring semi-famous actors - as many of the principles are quite well known (Ms. Deschanel was an up-and-comer at the time, but would not have come cheap). However, Sir Lawrence Olivier couldn't have saved this dud, as the dialogue was totally dire throughout.

I gave up at the end of the first episode. Apologies if it turns into Citizen Kane in the next chapter.