Monthly Archives: October 2011

October 17, 2011

“My Thoughts On” Sanctuary: Uprising

By Karen Ford

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Welcome back Sanctuary fans.

Click to visit SPACE channelAnd thanks to the SPACE channel, not only do we get to see it on Friday nights, (check local listings) but we also get to see a repeat of the episode on Sunday twice more.  How cool is that?  AND, if that doesn’t make you jump for joy, they also post it online for all to see.  Yes, you can see full episodes from their website as well.  This is why I love the SPACE channel.

Now from this point I should warn you that I may give out spoilers to those of you who haven’t seen the episode yet.  If you have, then by all means.  Plus, if you feel you need to freshen up your memory as to what happened prior, then you may want to visit the WormholeRiders News Agency website first.  That’s where the last episode – INTO THE BLACK is located.  Again I wrote up that review as well, when I was still with them.  This episode basically continues off from that previous review.  Hope you enjoy.

This episode has a bit of everything in it that I’m sure will please everyone.  Although, I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t notice that the opening picture is missing someone until I seen this episode.  Yes, we are missing Kate Freelander (Agam Darshi).  Though, she’s tweeted that she’s had other projects she was committed into doing during the time of the gang getting back together to film season 4.  And this episode really helps with her lack of screen time beautifully.

This is also an episode that the Empress herself directed.  For those who don’t know, I’m referring to Amanda Tapping.  She’s such a talented woman and a great role model for any person of all ages.

I was going to write a point-by-point about what happened during this episode, however, I feel it will get too long and boring.  So I’m sticking with points of the show that got me thinking.  I know,, dangerous, LOL.

Poor Will (Robin Dunne) is left to try and talk reason with Dr. Lillian Lee (Francoise Yip) the UN woman and the trigger happy lunatic.  Yes the same one we had the pleasure of seeing in the finale episode of season 3.  With the UN giving General Villanova (Tom McBeath) control of the refugee camp, everything goes from bad to worse in a matter of seconds.

Though, what I did find a nice surprise was when the other heads of the various Sanctuary’s made Will the head one of them all.  How cool was that?  I wonder if that means he got a pay raise? LOL

With the situation at the camp, Henry ends up having to go there to try and make peace after the trigger happy General fired on one of the 3 masses of abnormals that came from Praxia.  Every time I see this character, a quote comes to mind.  It was said by Carter from an episode of Stargate SG-1: Foothold.  “Maybourne you’re an idiot every day of the week.  Why couldn’t you have just taken one day off?” LOL  I think it fits nicely in this episode.

Then we have Garvis (David Milchard).  Remember him?  He was the one who gifted Kate with one of his jewels from his home.  Well him I liked.  Not because he defended Kate when the others didn’t really want her there, but that he stepped up when things started to become clear as to what was really going on.  This I hope won’t be the last time we see him.  Though, something tells me that it won’t be, as we find out that Kate is assigned to go with him and work from within.  I think they make a cute couple, 🙂

Again, you will get a much more detailed review on other sites.  This is just my views.  And in saying that, Amanda Tapping done an awesome job with directing.  The use of the green screens and the use of the visual effects are always astonishing to say the least.  Amanda had directed before, but this one tops the cake, so far.

But with the one thing that I had to actually do the math on, was her new age.  She went back in time over 100 years.  113 years to be precise.  When she left she was already 159.  If memory serves me right.  Well with her having to have a 113 vacation, doesn’t that make her 272 years old now??  Damn she looks great.  Doesn’t she?  Makes ya wonder what she gonna be like when she reaches 1000, LOL

It was funny though, how they came across Helen in the Sanctuary in the first place.  Seeing as she was MIA for a few hours.  Someone from within the Sanctuary was hacking Henry’s hack.  I didn’t think someone was smarter then Henry.  I guess Helen has many talents that we are just scratching the surface.

Click to visit and follow me on TwitterThat’s my thoughts for this episode.  Please feel free to comment below.  Share this post by clicking on one of the buttons below, or you can nab me on twitter.

Until next time.  XO

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October 12, 2011

“My Thoughts On” Terra Nova: What Remains

By Karen Ford

Who would have thought getting a cold or flu will save you from loosing your mind?  LOL.  Well, that was the basis of this episode.  Now before you read any further, if you haven’t seen this episode yet, then stop now.  Otherwise keep going.  I may put in spoilers from time to time.  So you’ve been warned.

And I’m not going to write a long detailed review on any episode from this series.  I’ll leave that for other websites that want to do that.  This is just a site for me to get out my thoughts and opinions.  So let’s get to it…

Click to visit FOX.comThere was a science outpost a fair distance from the main settlement of Terra Nova, that no one heard from in a while.  So with Taylor (Stephen Lang) leading just a team of three, Dr. Elisabeth Shannon (Shelley Conn) and Brady (Terrence Mulling), they head off to investigate.

I believe this series is getting better and better as it goes on.  Unfortunately I missed the 2nd episode, but I found a way that I can see them.  Both FOX and CityTY has the episodes in full for you to watch.  Albeit, there’s a time limit as to how long they have them on their sites, so watch them as soon as you can.  It’s definitely worth it.

As for my thoughts, I was little disappointed in the lack of dinos, but then again, the ones that did make an appearance, were awesome.  Though, I had to giggle in the beginning part.  Thought of Jurassic Park all over again.  With a slight difference.  In the movie, the T-Rex was curious of the lawyer sitting on the outdoors toilet before eating him.  In this episode, the scientist just lost his mind and didn’t know where he was and just stood there looking up at this thing looking down.  Then came the teeth as it faded into commercial.

Jim (Jason O’Mara) wanted to go with them.  Awwww, how cute, didn’t want to have his wife out of his sight for too long.  Then again, who can blame him.  They are tossed back 85 million years.  And on purpose!!!  Did they not think of the Ice Age era?  Makes ya wonder how they plan on surviving through that one.

Well it didn’t take long for Elisabeth to figure out what happened.  Apparently the lead scientist was trying to come up with a cure for Alzheimer.  Unfortunately, that lead to something else.  They started to forget and go back to a pivotal time in their past.  Not sure if it was the same time period for everyone, but for Elisabeth, it was 20 years she lost.

Taylor got infected too and thought he was back in Somalia on some sort of mission.  Just what they needed, a trigger happy lunatic on the loose. 🙂  But to give him credit where credit is due, I like this character more then I did in Avatar.  Mr. Lang plays a bad guy very well, which is nice to see him portray Taylor.  Yes, he’s a military man and he has to have some sort of edge.  But he also shows that there’s a soft side to Taylor too.

Getting concerned that no one has heard from Taylor, Jim decides to go out to the outpost to see what’s happened.  He meets up with a friend of his, Malcolm Wallace (Rod Hallett) to ask for Malcolm’s rover.  Of course Malcolm wasn’t going to let Jim go alone.  The two men went off.  But not before Malcolm gave Jim some sort of root to chew on due to his cold.  This we will find out is a good thing to have.  The root on the other hand, I guess someone forgot to pack the Buckleys, LOL

In the end it came down to Jim sneezing again to give Elisabeth the idea to see why or how he hasn’t gone mad.  It was either the root, or the fact that Jim had the flu, either way, she went to work.

With everything gone back to normal – sort of – they all went about their usual jobs and learned from this situation.

Click to visit and follow me on TwitterAnyway, I hope you all enjoyed my thoughts.  Come again when I have even more to write, both the good and the critical.  Please feel free to leave a comment, click on the buttons below to share my blog, or you can nab me on twitter by clicking on my avatar on the right.

Until next time.  XO

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