Tin Man Overview

The Show:

Tin Man was a six-hour miniseries that aired on the Syfy Channel on December 2, 2007 and is now available on DVD. It is a steampunk-influenced retelling of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Oz is now called the O.Z., which stands for the Outer Zone, and in the third part, viewers learn that the heroine DG is a descendent of the original Dorothy Gale and was named after her, so Tin Man is also a sequel to L. Frank Baum's series.

What You Need to Know to Enjoy My Stories:

The Outer Zone is on another planet or another dimension (take your pick) because it has two suns and more than one moon. It is connected to Earth through magical wormholes called travel storms that look like tornadoes on Earth.

Four sentient races inhabit the O.Z.: humans, Munchkins, Viewers, and tiktoks (borrowing Baum's name for his fully robotic character). Humans are the most numerous, and some are shapeshifters between human and animal forms. The tiktoks are cyborgs created to look completely human, but robot innards are visible when they are damaged.

Munchkins, also called the Eastern Guild, are a diminutive race of humanoids. They build their villages suspended in the treetops; rely on spears and nets; dress in leather, feathers, and face paint; and speak in rhyme.

Viewers are a humanoid with many cat-like characteristics: more body hair, cat-like facial structure, fangs, and cat-shaped pupils. They are also like psychics, but "instead of seeing with their minds, they see with their hearts." Their abilities shown in the miniseries are healing wounds (accelerating a body's natural healing), empathy (reading people's emotions by touch), psychometry (psychic vision by touching an object associated with someone else), precognition (seeing the future), and post-cognition (seeing the past). They are able to share their visions with other by touching a reflective object.

For the events covered in the miniseries, the Tin Man article at Wikipedia is a great summation.

My Fanon:

I settled on three moons because it felt like the right amount to have up in the sky. Only one moon is shown in the miniseries, but the characters refer to "first moonrise." Locations mentioned and shown in the miniseries are shown on the detailed maps I made for the O.Z.

Technically, Oz has had five sections with a different color alignment, so I added the Fae as a fifth species. I haven't tried aligning the different species with the directions, other than the Munchkins, because I think the civil war and the Sorceress' reign uprooted almost everyone.