don't be dull, be fannish

I know there are peeps on my flist who watched this series, so... According to this article - link - SyFy canceled Sanctuary. It's not unexpected since they hesitated this long to pick it up, but it's not really a fair treatment, IMHO, to let everybody wait and wait and wait and then give them the bad news. But that's SyFy for you, classy as always :-/

* I'm thinking of hoarding the rest of Numb3rs - only four more episodes to go! - and then marathoning it in one go. It's easier to go through the teeth-gritting or mind-numbing parts when you have more Colby and David in one heap!

* Leverage is still delegated to DVD. I love the show and I love the "kids" - Eliot, Hardison and Parker - but my plate is just too full! Besides, the audio commentaries on the DVDs are hilarious. And also insightful!

* White Collar and Supernatural return next week! My favorite two shows back on TV. I hope that a) Neal and Peter stay buddies and b) Sam and Dean's... brotherness... will be back. I can't do without the one or the other.

* I decided to download the season finale of Sanctuary - the promo looked good and besides, I really want to LIKE this show. I stopped watching around 105 but I was told that just after that it became really good. Hm. Ok, I will give it a another go.

* Still need to catch up on: Castle, Bones, The Mentalist and House.

* And the pilot of Human Target is out on torrents? It might be a good one so I'll try it out - even though the opening credits left kinda blah :( But I'm not getting too excited about it. I loved the old version with Rick Springfield - I really, REALLY loved it - so a re-do... Springfield's character, Christopher Chance, was so broken and his team was so protective of him that the show pushed all my buttons!

Michael Shanks to guest star on Sanctuary in an episode written by Alan McCullough!

Sweet! I love Michael Shanks and Alan McCullough wrote the best SGA episodes - like Outcast or The Queen - with great character interaction and intriguing storylines. Even Joe Mallozzi had to admit that fans loved McCullough for his team-oriented episodes - I wonder why the other writers didn't take a hint, then.

You know, I wasn't all that thrilled about the show, Amanda Tapping's Sanctuary I mean, I actually stopped downloading the eps pretty early on. On the other hand, I would like to finish watching the season. And so I thought that I would buy it on DVD - but there no news about it on Amazon.com.

Amazon.co.uk lists it for October 2009 but I'm rather reluctant - okay, more than "rather" - to order any shows on DVD from the UK Amazon because the DVDs either don't have any extras or they only have some, not all and even the description of extras on their web is not accurate - as I found out when I ordered S4 of NCIS and found no audio commentaries on the DVDs even though Amazon.co.uk listed them as being there.

Oh well, it's not nearly a priority for me, to be honest, it's just boggles the mind. The show is reportedly successful and still no DVDs announced? That's weird.

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!

( Other spoilery thoughts... )

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.

OMG! Did you see it? OMG! So good!

( My spoilery thoughts... )

Awesome. I mean, really, really awesome. This season is just blowing my mind! If the SGA movie is at least as good as this mid-season two-parter, then I will be a happy camper :)

And now we have to wait two weeks for the next ep? Meep :'( Next week, Sanctuary premieres.