[Eug]

Anyone else watching this? I've watched a few episodes now and it looks promising.



I had given up on Heroes so needed something else to fill the sci-fi void. This show has some of the kitsch of Stargate SG-1/Atlantis so it might not be to everyone's tastes, but then again I liked those shows. Actually it's not surprising, since so many of the actors are rehashed Stargate SG-1 / Stargate Atlantis / Battlestar Galactica alumni. Same goes for the producers/directors. Part of it is because of the limited sci-fi actor pool in British Columbia of course, but it is kinda noticeable.

This is how Wikipedia describes the show:

Sanctuary is a Canadian fantasy television series. It originally premiered as a series of webisodes distributed over the Internet. The success of these webisodes led SCI FI to pick up the series for a more traditional television-based 13-episode season.

Sanctuary stars Canadian actress Amanda Tapping as Dr. Helen Magnus, an English doctor specializing in xenobiology and cryptozoology who seeks to help so-called 'monsters' by running the titular 'Sanctuary for All'. She recruits Dr. Will Zimmerman (Robin Dunne), a forensic psychiatrist, to assist her in reaching people and gaining their trust so they can be helped. Other Sanctuary staff include Henry Foss (Ryan Robbins), a weapons designer & computer expert; and Ashley Magnus (Emilie Ullerup), Helen's daughter and self-proclaimed monster hunter.

The series premiered on October 3, 2008 on The Movie Network and Movie Central in Canada and SCI FI in the U.S. A number of members of the cast and staff have also worked on Stargate SG-1 and related shows.

Sanctuary follows the exploits of Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping) as she seeks out all manner of terrifying and monstrous creatures. Some of these creatures she needs to lock up to protect the public, and some of them she needs to protect from the public. She is aided in her quest by her reluctant protégé Will Zimmerman (Robin Dunne), her intrepid, if somewhat reckless, daughter Ashley (Emilie Ullerup), the talkative geek Henry Foss (Ryan Robbins), a computer and security expert, and Bigfoot (Christopher Heyerdahl), her taciturn Neanderthal-like assistant.

The central plots of the webisodes and TV episodes that cover the same story line are the same, yet like different eye witnesses recounting the same events, there are some relatively significant discrepancies in the actions, dialogue, and guest characters between the webisodes and TV versions.

I have not seen any of the webisodes since they were not available so I'm not sure how much I'm missing, but I'm sure I'll get to them later.

[Chuckit]

I watched the first part of the Web show and thought it was terrible. Maybe they upped the quality for the TV show. I don't know.

[nonhuman]

I watched several of the webisodes and thought it was interesting but not particularly well done. I haven't gotten around to watching any of the tv episodes, but I'll probably give them a try at some point in hopes that they'll be higher quality.

[Eug]

Hmmm... That last episode "Nubbins" was supposedly a 'tribute' to the The Trouble With Tribbles, but the CGI was really lame. Bad episode.

P.S. The daughter in Sanctuary was the same woman who was the mother to the little blonde girl that was Starbuck's fake daughter in BSG.



I knew I had seen her somewhere...