Sanctuary thoughts

[sheikah]

So...Sanctuary is over. A lot of people in my fannish circles are pretty upset about this but I'm...not? Which I guess makes me a bad fan. But let me say why, I suppose, in a place where I likely won't get jumped all over.

I hated the last season and a half of this show. Like, to the point where I was watching literally because I felt like I had to. I hated the direction the show went with "Let's make Helen do INSANE STUPID THINGS and LIE TO EVERYONE and COMPLETELY MAKE HER 180 FROM HER ORIGINAL PERSONALITY."

Same with Will, to a lesser extent, but Will did actually show some growth that I'm not willing to sacrifice. I hated the flashback episodes and the heavy focus on Hollow Earth. I hated taking a strong, independent woman and basically throwing her in the arms of Tesla, who, I know everyone fucking loves him, but was not that great to me. He's a one trick pony good for comic relief, that's it, and not what I want in a love interest on a show. And, frankly, I don't see why liking Tesla means you have to bash Will, and that happens too.

I didn't much like Druitt, but I hate they left his plotline unresolved in S4. It was just all over the place for the last two years - and don't get me started on Abby or the completely publicity stunt lesbian kiss (say what you will about it, but there was no damn point to Magnus kissing ANYONE in Monsoon, male or female, and it completely went against things Amanda has said about Magnus being picky about her partners PLUS Magnus's own squeamishness about sex and romance in Next Tuesday). Kate's character was completely sidelined and declawed by giving her an offscreen love interest they did NOTHING to develop or build.

So, yes, RIP Sanctuary, but RIP the show I loved for seasons 1 and 2 and the first half of 3. I thought the finale ended it in a good place and I'm happy to have a jumping off point for my own stories to tell.

Comments

[joyfulfeather]

I've been that way for a couple shows -- Atlantis and Lie To Me come to mind. There's kind of this relief, isn't there? That you don't have to watch it get further from being that thing that you really loved. I don't think that makes you a bad fan, just different from the people who loved what it became.

[sheikah]

Honestly, if it had come back for a season 5, I wouldn't have watched it.

[ravenrants]

I'm kinda there with Supernatural. Once they played out the Apocalypse, it's been all... oh, shit, what do we do now? Some of the stand-alone episodes have been good, but the overarching plot of the last two seasons has been a terrible mess. A terrible, horrible mess. A hot mess of messy messiness. I just... I loose count of the ways.

[sheikah]

Oh man, I quit watching Supernatural like two seasons ago.

[ravenrants]

Yeah, that was when it all went to hell. They finished the arc they'd been building for five years, and the executive producer left for other projects. The season finale was so disjointed and anti-climactic that I actually asked the TV is that was seriously it.

[kirsteena]

Actually, I agree with you. I think that it was a good point to end it, before it went down the route of you hating the show, which is probably what would have happened eventually.

God knows I'm there at the moment with Glee.

And you know my thoughts with the Tesla and Will thing. Just bloody ridiculous.

[summersdream]

I... I tried Sanctuary. I just couldn't with the ridiculous accents and weirdness. :/ I made it up to the point where the cool daughter girl died and then was like "And, I'm out. Peace."

Syfy seems to have a really bad habit of taking a cool show premise and completely fucking it over about two or three seasons in, if not immediately. Sigh.

*offers cookies* Here's to new shows to fan.

[basildestiny]

I didn't even know it was ending. :( No more invisible Yetis. I felt this was an obligatory statement to make. :)