Better late than never, m'dear *hug* not like you've had anything better to do :)
Yeah, I was highly dubious at first as well. Mostly because, for some idiot reason, Sci Fi was pitching it as "sexy" (thier word) instead of just plain smart and new. Even Amanda Tapping alone wouldn't have been enough to draw me in. I just wanted to see if it was possible to pull of 80% Green Screen on a weekly basis. *likes digital eye-candy*
This show's great in its lack of overt ships (aside from the obvious Druitt/Magnus) but, at the same time, it still deals very strongly with relationships. Magnus' relationship with her daughter, to a lesser degree her relationship with Henry, and always her relationship with Will. Which totally fails to take the expect course between a female and male lead in a mainstream television series where you'd probably see heavy-duty flirting by the end of the first ep.
I mean, yes, for all practical purposes, Magnus used seduction to draw Will into her world, but she wasn't using her body to do it and it sure as hell wasn't Will's body she was targetting, either. I just find their relationship beautiful to watch unfold because it's so true. Could they get together down the road? Quite possibly, but it's not something that's on the radar for either one of them. Right now, they're getting to know each other and growing closer in other, more important ways, and it's good enough for both of them.
Magnus is amazing. Do you know the song "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks? (If you don't, I'll send you the lyrics -- not derogatory despite the title.) That is Helen Magnus in a nutshell.
Oh, Henry's great :) Once you ratchet your jaw shut again after ep 7, you'll be even more in love than before ;p
Oh, these writers have their shit together in a big way. If you go back and watch the original webisodes against the first 3 eps, you might see some of what's coming in the rest of the season, but you'll still be in for some surprises.
*nods* 4400 was good. There's not a lot of overt "are we the good guys or the bad guys?" that occurs in Sanctuary, but there's this uneasy awareness that their methods are questionable at times. Will occassionally butts heads with Magnus like in the scene I described above with the suicide(?) but he also goes along with an awful lot of questionable methods and behaviors. And, sometimes, he's skirting the law while simultaneously "helping" the police or Feds. It's all about getting the case solved for him, but he's withholding a great deal from the people he used to work for...
Yeah, Magnus requires a pretty steep learning-curve from her new protege. Gets a little easier for him from here on out, but she never entirely stops surprising him, either. And Will is loving every freaking second of it... :)
The Cabal's definitely superior to the Sanctuary in terms of manpower and resources, but I actually see them as being fairly evenly-matched to the Sanctuary. I have Magnus tell a Cabal operative "I will happily destroy the Cabal if that's what it takes to protect my own. You think you know what we're capable of but you are wrong. We have strength and passion and willpower, and we have access to men and women with powers you cannot begin to comprehend..."
It'll be some time before you realize what the Cabal's actual agenda is, but they do believe they're doing the right thing. It doesn't make them remotely sympathetic, but it does, to me at least, underline some of the similarities between them and the Sanctuary in terms of methods and ideology. You'll see what I mean :)
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Date: 2009-06-19 02:07 am (UTC)Yeah, I was highly dubious at first as well. Mostly because, for some idiot reason, Sci Fi was pitching it as "sexy" (thier word) instead of just plain smart and new. Even Amanda Tapping alone wouldn't have been enough to draw me in. I just wanted to see if it was possible to pull of 80% Green Screen on a weekly basis. *likes digital eye-candy*
This show's great in its lack of overt ships (aside from the obvious Druitt/Magnus) but, at the same time, it still deals very strongly with relationships. Magnus' relationship with her daughter, to a lesser degree her relationship with Henry, and always her relationship with Will. Which totally fails to take the expect course between a female and male lead in a mainstream television series where you'd probably see heavy-duty flirting by the end of the first ep.
I mean, yes, for all practical purposes, Magnus used seduction to draw Will into her world, but she wasn't using her body to do it and it sure as hell wasn't Will's body she was targetting, either. I just find their relationship beautiful to watch unfold because it's so true. Could they get together down the road? Quite possibly, but it's not something that's on the radar for either one of them. Right now, they're getting to know each other and growing closer in other, more important ways, and it's good enough for both of them.
Magnus is amazing. Do you know the song "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks? (If you don't, I'll send you the lyrics -- not derogatory despite the title.) That is Helen Magnus in a nutshell.
Oh, Henry's great :) Once you ratchet your jaw shut again after ep 7, you'll be even more in love than before ;p
Oh, these writers have their shit together in a big way. If you go back and watch the original webisodes against the first 3 eps, you might see some of what's coming in the rest of the season, but you'll still be in for some surprises.
*nods* 4400 was good. There's not a lot of overt "are we the good guys or the bad guys?" that occurs in Sanctuary, but there's this uneasy awareness that their methods are questionable at times. Will occassionally butts heads with Magnus like in the scene I described above with the suicide(?) but he also goes along with an awful lot of questionable methods and behaviors. And, sometimes, he's skirting the law while simultaneously "helping" the police or Feds. It's all about getting the case solved for him, but he's withholding a great deal from the people he used to work for...
Yeah, Magnus requires a pretty steep learning-curve from her new protege. Gets a little easier for him from here on out, but she never entirely stops surprising him, either. And Will is loving every freaking second of it... :)
The Cabal's definitely superior to the Sanctuary in terms of manpower and resources, but I actually see them as being fairly evenly-matched to the Sanctuary. I have Magnus tell a Cabal operative "I will happily destroy the Cabal if that's what it takes to protect my own. You think you know what we're capable of but you are wrong. We have strength and passion and willpower, and we have access to men and women with powers you cannot begin to comprehend..."
It'll be some time before you realize what the Cabal's actual agenda is, but they do believe they're doing the right thing. It doesn't make them remotely sympathetic, but it does, to me at least, underline some of the similarities between them and the Sanctuary in terms of methods and ideology. You'll see what I mean :)