Sanctuary and the Almighty Johnsons
Sanctuary season 3.5 promo. Why must all promo's have lame promo guy speaking over them. But yay Helen Magnus teaming up Atia of the motherfrakking Julii Polly Walker's character to save the plant. HBIC team up! I may be more excited about this than Doctor Who - but the Who doesn't promise to have a HBIC team up this season.
Also: oh, Nikola.
Speaking of Sanctuary, I did not realise until yesterday that Adam Worth was a real person (yeah, a bit of history fail there on my part), and in fact Conan Doyle's inspiration for Moriarty. Which would mean that in the Sanctuary canon, Jekyll/Hyde and Moriarty are one and the same person. It does make sense, thinking about it, Adam's written as a criminal mastermind with a split personality, and not the first time the writers have mashed two characters together, Holmes and Watson being also one person. Nicely done writers.
This also means, that I wasn't off when I kept on wondering if the cliff-side shooting scene was a homage to Reichenbach Falls, and then thinking about it, 100 years later Adam tricked Magnus into pushing him off the rooftop and through the time-space rift thing, which gave them both a lethal radiation dose - so they both fell to their (slow by radiation poisoning) deaths there, sort of. And then the very next episode, flashback show that Watson spent a lot of his time following Magnus around (and was her second for over 100 years), hinting that while Conan Doyle based Holmes' investigative skills on Watson's, the Watson-Holmes dynamic was based on the Watson-Magnus relationship. Very nicely done writers.
Yep, defiantly looking forward to season 3.5. I'm going to have to re-watch Breach and For King and Country for the millionth time.
Okay, off Sanctuary and onto another little show that I love but not many people watch. The Almighty Johnsons. It's a kiwi show about four brothers who happen to be the reincarnations of Norse gods (the Norse gods having emigrated to New Zealand to avoid persecution in the 1800s), the youngest of which is Odin, and is on a quest to find the reincarnation of the goddess Frigg. If he succeeds they become proper gods and if he fails they all die. And on top of that, a bunch of goddesses have decided essentially that boys suck and they want to be running the show, so are on a mission to stop them.
It's essentially a urban fantasy battle-of-the-sexes romantic ranchy family dramady. Yeah...but it works. And it kind of reminds me a lot of Misfits, but more suburban and the humour is more Kiwi. If you get a chance to watch it (hell, there will probably be an American version in a few years, even Kiwi shows get remade for American audiences nowadays), I recommend it. Although, I'm not sure how well it would travel. Anyway, here's a trailer
Also: oh, Nikola.
Speaking of Sanctuary, I did not realise until yesterday that Adam Worth was a real person (yeah, a bit of history fail there on my part), and in fact Conan Doyle's inspiration for Moriarty. Which would mean that in the Sanctuary canon, Jekyll/Hyde and Moriarty are one and the same person. It does make sense, thinking about it, Adam's written as a criminal mastermind with a split personality, and not the first time the writers have mashed two characters together, Holmes and Watson being also one person. Nicely done writers.
This also means, that I wasn't off when I kept on wondering if the cliff-side shooting scene was a homage to Reichenbach Falls, and then thinking about it, 100 years later Adam tricked Magnus into pushing him off the rooftop and through the time-space rift thing, which gave them both a lethal radiation dose - so they both fell to their (slow by radiation poisoning) deaths there, sort of. And then the very next episode, flashback show that Watson spent a lot of his time following Magnus around (and was her second for over 100 years), hinting that while Conan Doyle based Holmes' investigative skills on Watson's, the Watson-Holmes dynamic was based on the Watson-Magnus relationship. Very nicely done writers.
Yep, defiantly looking forward to season 3.5. I'm going to have to re-watch Breach and For King and Country for the millionth time.
Okay, off Sanctuary and onto another little show that I love but not many people watch. The Almighty Johnsons. It's a kiwi show about four brothers who happen to be the reincarnations of Norse gods (the Norse gods having emigrated to New Zealand to avoid persecution in the 1800s), the youngest of which is Odin, and is on a quest to find the reincarnation of the goddess Frigg. If he succeeds they become proper gods and if he fails they all die. And on top of that, a bunch of goddesses have decided essentially that boys suck and they want to be running the show, so are on a mission to stop them.
It's essentially a urban fantasy battle-of-the-sexes romantic ranchy family dramady. Yeah...but it works. And it kind of reminds me a lot of Misfits, but more suburban and the humour is more Kiwi. If you get a chance to watch it (hell, there will probably be an American version in a few years, even Kiwi shows get remade for American audiences nowadays), I recommend it. Although, I'm not sure how well it would travel. Anyway, here's a trailer