*smiles* I've been flailing like crazy over season 3 - it's been a really great season for Tesla and Henry (and Helen and Big Guy too) and there's been some really awesome scenes between the two of them. Henry really does get a lot of massive cases of whiplash though, trying to decide between Tesla being the coolest person ever and a total jerk.
I don't know if I'm going to be hooked or not -- there's still an awful lot of ticks in the "minus" column for this show, but it's starting to have more ticks in the "plus" column than it did before.
*nods* Like I, and others, have said, the first season is really rough. I think I felt that way through most of season one ("The Five" and "Requiem" started getting more interested, seeing their potential) and it wasn't until the storyline that ends season one and begins season two that I started getting hooked and only now, in season three, am I starting to feel any sort of vague fannish inclinations. Not to say it'll grab you. Mostly what bothers me is that I think Damian Kindler (and this is true of his Stargate episodes) is really really good at the creative big picture ideas and really bad at the details that make a plot tight. So a lot of episodes (less, so far, in season 3) have had me enjoying them while I'm watching and then left feeling "that was fun, but one more round in the editor's room could have made that an really good tight story."
(Although ... as a scientist, THE SCIENCE, HOW DO YOU BEAR IT?! The last one I watched last night was "Requiem", and OH MY ACHING BRAIN.)
Well, first it's about as far from my field as you can get. I'm very much a physical scientist, and while I'm now tinkering on the edges of biology, it's only barely and it's the ecology end of things. My anatomy/genetic/biochem/neuroscience knowledge is pretty basic 101 level. Also, I have weird thresholds for believability. There's shows like Farscape, which doesn't even pretend to have its science make sense, and then I'm totally fine with 99% of it (there's one scene where John leaves a ship without a space suit and manages to change the direction he's floating without interacting with anything else and ...just...NO). So long as it isn't even pretending, I can let it all slide. Then there are shows like Stargate, which gets closer and somewhat believable enough that when it REALLY screws up (*shudder* Red Sky *shudder*) it feels worse and I can't deal. Like I have different levels of suspension of disbelief? For me, Sanctuary falls closer to the Farscape category (though there have been moments when I want to drive to Vancouver and volunteer to be their science advisor).
So I loved "Requiem" for the character bits and Amanda Tapping acting her heart out. And I said "brain parasite that makes you go crazy and leaves when it thinks the host is dead sounds fine to me" hand-waved, and enjoyed the rest.
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I've been flailing like crazy over season 3 - it's been a really great season for Tesla and Henry (and Helen and Big Guy too) and there's been some really awesome scenes between the two of them. Henry really does get a lot of massive cases of whiplash though, trying to decide between Tesla being the coolest person ever and a total jerk.
I don't know if I'm going to be hooked or not -- there's still an awful lot of ticks in the "minus" column for this show, but it's starting to have more ticks in the "plus" column than it did before.
*nods* Like I, and others, have said, the first season is really rough. I think I felt that way through most of season one ("The Five" and "Requiem" started getting more interested, seeing their potential) and it wasn't until the storyline that ends season one and begins season two that I started getting hooked and only now, in season three, am I starting to feel any sort of vague fannish inclinations. Not to say it'll grab you. Mostly what bothers me is that I think Damian Kindler (and this is true of his Stargate episodes) is really really good at the creative big picture ideas and really bad at the details that make a plot tight. So a lot of episodes (less, so far, in season 3) have had me enjoying them while I'm watching and then left feeling "that was fun, but one more round in the editor's room could have made that an really good tight story."
(Although ... as a scientist, THE SCIENCE, HOW DO YOU BEAR IT?! The last one I watched last night was "Requiem", and OH MY ACHING BRAIN.)
Well, first it's about as far from my field as you can get. I'm very much a physical scientist, and while I'm now tinkering on the edges of biology, it's only barely and it's the ecology end of things. My anatomy/genetic/biochem/neuroscience knowledge is pretty basic 101 level. Also, I have weird thresholds for believability. There's shows like Farscape, which doesn't even pretend to have its science make sense, and then I'm totally fine with 99% of it (there's one scene where John leaves a ship without a space suit and manages to change the direction he's floating without interacting with anything else and ...just...NO). So long as it isn't even pretending, I can let it all slide. Then there are shows like Stargate, which gets closer and somewhat believable enough that when it REALLY screws up (*shudder* Red Sky *shudder*) it feels worse and I can't deal. Like I have different levels of suspension of disbelief? For me, Sanctuary falls closer to the Farscape category (though there have been moments when I want to drive to Vancouver and volunteer to be their science advisor).
So I loved "Requiem" for the character bits and Amanda Tapping acting her heart out. And I said "brain parasite that makes you go crazy and leaves when it thinks the host is dead sounds fine to me" hand-waved, and enjoyed the rest.