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Er, wow
I think I'm done with Sanctuary for a while. I still plan to watch the next Tesla episode when it comes around (because, TESLA!) but ... otherwise? No. For now, at least, I am through.
It's pretty rare for a show to contain such fury-inducing levels of TOTAL STUPID in a single episode that it makes me go I AM NOT SUBJECTING MY BRAIN TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF THIS SHOW, especially when my standards are already as low as they are for Sanctuary, but this one? Yeah.
And I can tell you the exact point where I finally tipped over, too. When Abby escaped, got away free and clear, had the run of the city, and then WENT BACK TO THE BAD GUYS because she "had to finish her date with Will" WITHOUT so much as trying to make contact with the Sanctuary or acquire a weapon or form some kind of escape plan? WITHOUT PHONING THE FREAKING SANCTUARY THAT IS LIKE SIX BLOCKS AWAY? Yeah. That was my breakup point with this show. (In the long run, I suppose it wouldn't actually have mattered if she had, but it was such an utter brain-breaking moment of stupidity that it just left me speechless -- "I'm free! I can run away! I can call for help or at least let Will's powerful, heavily armed friends know where he is! I can get some kind of weapon from any one of these MANY stores around me! But I will do none of those things because I have to see this through with Will, so hey, bad guys, you can have me back as a hostage again" ... WHAAAAT.)
The episode was already actively annoying me up to that point with the ineptitude and inconsistency on the part of both the main characters and the bad guys (I could make a list, I could make SUCH A LIST), but that was it. Done. I was so furious with both the show and the characters at that point that the ONLY thing that could've salvaged the show for me was if Abby had been in league with the bad guys, which I was really hoping would turn out to be the case. But, no. And the more we found out about the actual "plan" (on the part of both the bad guys and Helen), the more nonsensical and stupid everything up to that point became.
I would be more willing to forgive this episode for being a miserable, badly written, idiotic mess (because, really, a Will-centric ep is never going to be my cup of tea anyway) if the last two had been better. But last week's was a blahfest in which everyone was massively OOC, and the mid-season opener, "Pax Romana", was a promising-looking episode that descended into total anticlimax and DO NOT WANT at the end. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
grav_ity has an excellent post on Pax Romana and the show's handling of Abnormals that sums up all of my problems with Pax Romana and the show's ethics in general much better than I could.) When three episodes in a row make me wonder why I'm wasting an hour of my life on this show every week, not to mention INFURIATING me with the STUPID on a regular basis ... I think it's time to stop watching the show.
It's still not all bad (even as much as I hated this episode, I still enjoyed the scenes with Kate and Declan), and frankly, as we all know, I'm willing to put up with a LOT of bad writing and general cheesiness if I'm getting enough fun and squee from the show to make it worth it. *g* But with Sanctuary, the scales have definitely tipped way too far over into the "annoyance" side for me to be able to salvage it. I'm still willing to watch a handful of episodes just for the guest stars (TESLA, obviously, and I'll probably watch the Peter Wingfield eps because I am weak) but otherwise? I don't think it's worth it. I still love Helen and Henry and Kate and some of the recurring characters, but not enough to put up with the awful, awful writing that they're being subjected to. I'd rather quit while I still have some affection left for the show and the characters, rather than suffering through until I hate the whole thing.
It's pretty rare for a show to contain such fury-inducing levels of TOTAL STUPID in a single episode that it makes me go I AM NOT SUBJECTING MY BRAIN TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF THIS SHOW, especially when my standards are already as low as they are for Sanctuary, but this one? Yeah.
And I can tell you the exact point where I finally tipped over, too. When Abby escaped, got away free and clear, had the run of the city, and then WENT BACK TO THE BAD GUYS because she "had to finish her date with Will" WITHOUT so much as trying to make contact with the Sanctuary or acquire a weapon or form some kind of escape plan? WITHOUT PHONING THE FREAKING SANCTUARY THAT IS LIKE SIX BLOCKS AWAY? Yeah. That was my breakup point with this show. (In the long run, I suppose it wouldn't actually have mattered if she had, but it was such an utter brain-breaking moment of stupidity that it just left me speechless -- "I'm free! I can run away! I can call for help or at least let Will's powerful, heavily armed friends know where he is! I can get some kind of weapon from any one of these MANY stores around me! But I will do none of those things because I have to see this through with Will, so hey, bad guys, you can have me back as a hostage again" ... WHAAAAT.)
The episode was already actively annoying me up to that point with the ineptitude and inconsistency on the part of both the main characters and the bad guys (I could make a list, I could make SUCH A LIST), but that was it. Done. I was so furious with both the show and the characters at that point that the ONLY thing that could've salvaged the show for me was if Abby had been in league with the bad guys, which I was really hoping would turn out to be the case. But, no. And the more we found out about the actual "plan" (on the part of both the bad guys and Helen), the more nonsensical and stupid everything up to that point became.
I would be more willing to forgive this episode for being a miserable, badly written, idiotic mess (because, really, a Will-centric ep is never going to be my cup of tea anyway) if the last two had been better. But last week's was a blahfest in which everyone was massively OOC, and the mid-season opener, "Pax Romana", was a promising-looking episode that descended into total anticlimax and DO NOT WANT at the end. (
grav_ity has an excellent post on Pax Romana and the show's handling of Abnormals that sums up all of my problems with Pax Romana and the show's ethics in general much better than I could.) When three episodes in a row make me wonder why I'm wasting an hour of my life on this show every week, not to mention INFURIATING me with the STUPID on a regular basis ... I think it's time to stop watching the show.It's still not all bad (even as much as I hated this episode, I still enjoyed the scenes with Kate and Declan), and frankly, as we all know, I'm willing to put up with a LOT of bad writing and general cheesiness if I'm getting enough fun and squee from the show to make it worth it. *g* But with Sanctuary, the scales have definitely tipped way too far over into the "annoyance" side for me to be able to salvage it. I'm still willing to watch a handful of episodes just for the guest stars (TESLA, obviously, and I'll probably watch the Peter Wingfield eps because I am weak) but otherwise? I don't think it's worth it. I still love Helen and Henry and Kate and some of the recurring characters, but not enough to put up with the awful, awful writing that they're being subjected to. I'd rather quit while I still have some affection left for the show and the characters, rather than suffering through until I hate the whole thing.
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Less Will, more Tesla!*nods*
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I APPROVE OF THIS. *g*
Yeah, with a couple of exceptions, I really enjoyed most of the episodes in the first half of season three! The last few episodes leading up to the mid-season cliffhanger were almost uniformly fun, which is part of what makes the last few such a huge disappointment. But, really, I don't see any reason to keep putting up with a show that annoys me this bad. I'll just watch the Tesla eps and any others if it looks like they're generating a lot of squee on my flist, and otherwise, it's not like I don't have enough to keep me busy ...
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