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Title: Sanctuary
Post by: schild on October 02, 2008, 02:29:18 AM
Starts tomorrow.

http://www.scifi.com/sanctuary/cast/

I'm expecting total crap, but here's to hoping it's a TINY BIT decent.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Signe on October 02, 2008, 07:55:02 AM
Thanks.  I never know when something good might be one.  I'm absent minded with tv.  Anyway,  it LOOKS kind of cool so I'll set it up to record.  It would be nice if it were good.  They always fool us with the trailers though, don't they?   :oh_i_see:


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: FatuousTwat on October 02, 2008, 08:21:46 AM
When it was a free web series I watched some.

I think I saw 2 episodes before Amanda Tapping's British accent drove me off.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: caladein on October 05, 2008, 08:11:30 PM
Watched the first two TV episodes and I liked it quite a bit.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: schild on October 05, 2008, 08:27:39 PM
Grabbing the first 2 in 720p. We'll see how it goes.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: schild on October 05, 2008, 10:14:07 PM
It's like hellboy with a cute blonde.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: caladein on October 06, 2008, 10:52:51 PM
It's like hellboy with a cute blonde.

Amanda Tapping > Emilie Ullerup

or...

Brunette Carter > random cute blonde


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: schild on October 06, 2008, 11:21:05 PM
Sure, until she opened her mouth and I heard sounds.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Bunk on October 07, 2008, 08:00:10 PM
I'm undecided. Took all of 30 seconds for me to recognize that it was a local production (plus the address that came up on the cops scanner was an actual downtown Vancouver address). Would have been nice if the green screening didn't look quite so blatant.

I may watch a little more just to play spot the locations and local bit actors I know.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Signe on October 08, 2008, 07:33:05 AM
I DVR'd it and watched about half so far.  Amanda Tapping is AWFUL!  She needs to go to Pep Boys and take more acting classes!


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Sky on October 08, 2008, 08:28:20 AM
I watched about a half hour. I like Tapping, but the accent wasn't good.

And green screen-only productions need to fucking go away. I spend half the time noticing the light not matching up, and there is nothing for actors to play off. It's atrocious. I'd rather watch 1963 Dr Who.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Signe on October 08, 2008, 08:42:48 AM
God, no, not 1963.  Bleh.  1974, maybe!


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Sky on October 08, 2008, 09:21:27 AM
Having recently watched the first three or four story arcs, Hartnell is my favorite doctor. I wish they had left him as cranky as he was in the original shooting of the pilot, which they reshot and really messed up the characters imo.

But the library doesn't have any more Dr Who until the crappy new stuff, and I'm not paying $$ for the DVDs I'd watch once, so it's a moot point.

Anyway, 63, 74, the point remains. Cheesy real sets are better than CGI green screen crap. Buncha fucking talking mimes.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: HaemishM on October 10, 2008, 09:58:18 AM
I'm about 15 minutes from the end of the first episode - the two hour one. I don't think I'll keep watching after this. Tapping didn't bother me, but the rest felt like "creepy-style X-Files 101." The main doctor character bugged me, the blonde was typical anime-inspired young hottie that can kick your ass and the only interesting guy was the computer geek. I just find nothing interesting about the whole production.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Sky on October 12, 2008, 09:44:08 PM
Just to tack a post-script to my mini rant about the production.

Enough monster of the week shows. Grow an imagination, ffs.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Signe on October 13, 2008, 08:14:30 AM
I watched all of the first episode now and part of the second.  Not going to bother anymore.  This show, and everyone in it, is complete and utter shitey shite shite. 


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Reg on October 13, 2008, 08:26:07 AM
Have they had Eve Myles on as a guest star yet?


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Soln on October 19, 2008, 12:01:13 PM
my wife wants to keep watching just for David Hewlett and Paul McGillion to show up, which they are expected to do.  But yeah I stopped watching.  If the show was wall to wall Todd (Christopher Heyerdal) I'd eat it up.  But it's pretty bad.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Mrbloodworth on October 28, 2008, 09:28:31 AM
Watched the first episode. Wasn't that bad.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: sidereal on October 28, 2008, 01:08:57 PM
It's alright.

I'd rank it just below Eureka and just above Ewoks: the Battle For Endor


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Reg on November 13, 2008, 02:57:10 AM
Well, I've been following the show and I decided that the last episode was going to be the last for me. But then it won itself an extension with boner jokes.

Oh well.


Title: Re: Sanctuary
Post by: Lianka on November 16, 2008, 11:42:17 AM
And G4 tells me it's been renewed for another season!

Umm.. hooray..

(Hi, BTW)