Sanctuary 1x01+1x02

[katikat]

After watching the premiere of Amanda Tapping's new series Sanctuary, I have to say that it boils down to the fact that basically, it's a crossover between Poltergeist: The Legacy and Torchwood. It's not bad but it's also not riveting. It might turn out to be a good show, if you suspend your disbelief a bit. But the most stunning thing? Joel Goldsmith's music. That man is a master! Wow!

Helen's recruitment of Will was so a copy of Daniel Jackson's introduction to the Stargate program. Almost literally a carbon copy. And Dr. Zimmerman is basically Sanctuary's Daniel, blond hair, glasses and his past included. I fear that if they don't introduce a Will-specific quirk soon, the similarity might turn out to be, in long term, too much.

I loved all the quest stars! Kavan Smith aka SGA's Maj. Lorne! Can we keep him? Chris Heyerdahl aka SGA's Halling and Todd the Wraith! That man has to add some weight though. He looked like a cancer patient, all gaunt.

The main characters... Well, Helen Magnus aka Amanda Tapping is interesting. The whole embryo thing was a bit of a dancing on the edge of jumping the shark though. The jury is still out on Ashley. Will is... a bit bland, more spunk is needed. Henry... Heh, Henry is basically this show's McKay, just a bit mellower - and yay if it isn't Ryan Robbins aka SGA's Ladon Radim!

I hope that they keep up the tendency of bringing over SGA's stars and guest stars. That would be awesome!

So yeah, I will be downloading and watching next week too, although I wasn't really floored by the show. But it does have its own specific... atmosphere.

Comments

[bendtothesun.livejournal.com]

I was actually really really loving it. Better than I expected, I thought the characters were interesting and well thought out for the most part. And imo I wasn't getting copy of Daniel's recruitment into SG at all off of that. Though I will admit that he does look a lot like DJ. =)

That being said the jack the ripper angle was a cool twist and I'm looking forward to the next epi.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

The characters didn't really grab me, to be honest. I will keep watching but I hope that they will get more interesting with time.

I think that Will and Daniel are way too similar. Both lost their parents in their childhood, both turned to science because of that, both were ridiculed because of their teories, both were hired because of their teories, both were hired by a woman in a limo and in the novelization of Stargate the movie, Catherine even waited for Daniel in the evening in the rain outside... And then there's their physical appearance. Too many similarities...

But I really do hope that they will keep bringing over Stargate actors. It's fun to see them together again on a different show :)

[bendtothesun.livejournal.com]

Well I think their backstory differs enough, like only Will's mother was killed and by a supernatural being (Dan's parents were by an exibit falling down on him) and he was ridiculed because of that theory because he was like nine. From what I remember on the show is that Will stopped believing in supernatural and turned to forensic psychology to explain his behavior away (he's gifted with deduction you could say and why nobody believes him is beyond me since his skills solve cases- on another side note I really really hate it when police on tv. shows put down psychology in helping solve cases, you'd think by now someone would realize that their 'intuition' etc is pretty much a rough form of psychology-) Daniel on the other hand was already started on a career path in archeology via his parents. Helen hired Will because a) she'd rescued him before and b) he had gone into a field that would help her cause. Daniel got hired because he knew how to work the Stargate or at least was the person to figure it out. And he kinda looks like Weasley from Angel/Buffy as well so there's that. :)

Oh a cool thing is that in the first webisode of it David Hewlett had a role.