Sanctuary - 311 - Pax Romana*

[lavenderseaslug]

*The internet has broken me and made me not love Sanctuary as much anymore, but I am trying to do this as a way to recapture those positive feelings.

Comments

[openended]

You are not the only one who didn't get a single lesbian vibe from this. I, too, assumed that Ranna was doing Gregory.

Mostly, my feelings from this episode can be summed up thusly: THIS IS WHAT I FUCKING WAITED FOUR MONTHS FOR? THIS WAS CRAP.

I found myself saying "This resolved itself way too quickly." Because, I understand Ranna having questions and wanting to talk to Helen...but she switched from "Bitch, you in my city, I kill you" to "Oh, you have a very good point there, I suppose we need you" in, like, 0.2 seconds. And, no.

Among other things. I have bitchy feelings about this episode. I thought it could've been much more successful had they made it a two-parter and actually spent the time exploring the plots and what everyone was trying to do, rather than "Okay, we need to wrap up this, that and the other thing and have 45 minutes in which to do it. Go." For crying out loud, they had a full 22-episode season this season. They couldn't have, I don't know, axed Hero II (unless the Russian mafia comes back in a later episode) and bumped everything up by a week and given this episode the time it really deserved?

[lavenderseaslug]

Okay, thank god. I thought I was going a little crazy for a second. Like, it's not that I would care if it happened, it's just that I didn't see it happening. Ranna/Gregory ftmfw. As my obscure cracky ships go, it's not the weirdest.

Yeah. Four month hiatus, and this is what you give us? I'm a little offended. Because BSG was off the air for like a year and a half and then they came back with some seriously baller shit (until it...stopped being baller about halfway through 4.5) to make it a little bit worth it that we'd waited so long.

Definitely a two-parter would have been acceptable. I feel like they're all getting ready for the Normandy episode, which is something I don't know anything about except that people keep talking about it on Tumblr and Twitter like it's going to be epic. So. Who knows. And someone on the internet characterized Ranna as this complex, multi-layered villain, and I was all, "Really, because I just saw a poorly-written, lazily-characterized villain who changed sides with a breath of wind." It was a waste of Polly Walker, to my mind.