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Peter Wingfield did the usual thing of not only getting me to watch a show I had previously discarded but getting me to reconsider if I might perhaps have missed good stuff in earlier watchings.
So, I watched Sanctuary, and apart from being entirely predictable, it didn't suck.
While having them run around on a dungeon crawl it managed to paint in more character and relationship stuff than I've noticed in the entire preceeding series. None of it involving series regulars. :eyeroll:
It didn't have any twists. I was waiting for the double agent. I don't think it counts if they've told both the agent and the audience an episode in advance.
I think TV should have its age effect makeup taken away. Seriously. I have *never* seen it used in such a way the story gets better. And this time it not only wasn't necessary, it didn't make sense! Time, money, and pasting goop on an expressive actor, and all to introduce a gaping great biology doesn't work that way moment where none was needed. Simply collapsing would have worked better for less effort. And given us a much more pretty slashy moment right at the end.
... I'm not sure slashy is quite right when he manages to be intense and connected at *everyone*. He's just fun like that. But watching Torchwood it gets so all those moments where people are right up in each other's space being intense and then *don't* kiss just seem to make less sense. Mind you, if there was kissing, I'd complain cause making the evil guys go there is annoying. I'm starting to wonder if I'm impossible to please.
In conclusion: Peter Wingfield still very good and very pretty
Sanctuary... I might give a second look, watching it as all leading up to the ending.
I suspect it will still not be very good, but, if there's re-runs, I might as well.
Yes I recorded it all first time through. Then I deleted it due to boredom.
This is the power of PW.
So, I watched Sanctuary, and apart from being entirely predictable, it didn't suck.
While having them run around on a dungeon crawl it managed to paint in more character and relationship stuff than I've noticed in the entire preceeding series. None of it involving series regulars. :eyeroll:
It didn't have any twists. I was waiting for the double agent. I don't think it counts if they've told both the agent and the audience an episode in advance.
I think TV should have its age effect makeup taken away. Seriously. I have *never* seen it used in such a way the story gets better. And this time it not only wasn't necessary, it didn't make sense! Time, money, and pasting goop on an expressive actor, and all to introduce a gaping great biology doesn't work that way moment where none was needed. Simply collapsing would have worked better for less effort. And given us a much more pretty slashy moment right at the end.
... I'm not sure slashy is quite right when he manages to be intense and connected at *everyone*. He's just fun like that. But watching Torchwood it gets so all those moments where people are right up in each other's space being intense and then *don't* kiss just seem to make less sense. Mind you, if there was kissing, I'd complain cause making the evil guys go there is annoying. I'm starting to wonder if I'm impossible to please.
In conclusion: Peter Wingfield still very good and very pretty
Sanctuary... I might give a second look, watching it as all leading up to the ending.
I suspect it will still not be very good, but, if there's re-runs, I might as well.
Yes I recorded it all first time through. Then I deleted it due to boredom.
This is the power of PW.