thoughts on two recent Sanctuary episodes
first are two points which should be major, but they pale beside the (ego? mania?) Dr. Helen Magnus displays later in this post.
Oddly, IMDB doesn't list the lovely Sandrine Holt's role in Monsoon, the episode itself does list her in the opening credits.
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Oddly, IMDB doesn't list the lovely Sandrine Holt's role in Monsoon, the episode itself does list her in the opening credits.
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I haven't seen Monsoon yet.
Keeping a pregnant woman in the Santuary is rather like keeping one in a combination warroom/prison, isn't it? Unless the care she needs cannot reasonably be found elsewhere, it's not safe. If, as the Crixorum[?] was told, the underworld is being rebuilt, she'd be better off there once it's on its feet.
As far as Magnus' cutting of ties with the U.N. is concerned, it seemed to me that the entire episode - indeed most or all episodes since the last few of last season - have demonstrated that the U.N. don't know what they're doing and aren't clever enough to trust experts. Throughout most of Untouchables I was flashing back to the last few years of Stargate SG-1 and wondering, "Does evey SyFy show with Amanda Tapping have to feature the protagonists crippled by political authority?" But I was also thinking, till the end when I was vindicated, "Magnus is too smart not to have enough hidden resources to keep going anyway, isn't she?" I for one welcome the dismissal of our old beaurocratic masters.
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>Keeping a pregnant woman in the Santuary is rather like keeping one in a combination warroom/prison, isn't it?
one would think that Henry, Biggie, and Kate (who hates being locked up), wouldn't be in Sanctuary or the network if it was a prison.
> Unless the care she needs cannot reasonably be found elsewhere, it's not safe. If, as the Crixorum[?] was told, the underworld is being rebuilt, she'd be better off there once it's on its feet.
yes, once that happens, it might be safer there...but a civilization can't be rebuilt in a year - particularly an underground one. (and a construction yard also isn't a good place for a pregnant woman)
on the other hand, they'd be throwing a pregnant woman into a completely foreign place where she knows nobody.
on the gripping hand, Magnus outright admitted that her aim was to get the UN searching in Hollow Earth - so how safe would it be?
> "Does evey SyFy show with Amanda Tapping have to feature the protagonists crippled by political authority?" I think it's ( ... )
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one would think that Henry, Biggie, and Kate (who hates being locked up), wouldn't be in Sanctuary or the network if it was a prison.
It is for some. Like the telepathic general guy whose name I don't remember.
Magnus outright admitted that her aim was to get the UN searching in Hollow Earth - so how safe would it be?
I did miss that.
Monsoon will disappoint you
I stand warned.
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Crixorum, according to my Closed Captioning. I suppose the Sanctuaries are supposed to be prisons for the misbehavers who get locked up, but not supposed to be prisons for the well-behaved Abnormals who roam the place freely.
it was something of a throwaway line at the ep's end.
hopefully you won't be disappointed.
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