it is sad to see a well produced show go.
While I don't like the various reality shows and such that come along, I can't say that I'll miss Sanctuary. I tried a few times to get into it, as the premise is something that could be right up my alley if done well, but the show failed to grab me every episode I watched. It came close every time I saw an episode with Tesla.
Also, I cringe every time Amanda Tapping's character talks.
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
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A shame. It had a good premise, but the last couple seasons haven't wowed me. I've got the last 10 episodes of the last season sitting on the DVR and still haven't gotten around to watching them.
Well they did tie it up in a neat bow at the end of last season just in case. Not bad for a green screen series done on the cheap.
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Goodbye, I guess.
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Could always do the sensible thing and make everything CG. In a few years, we won't even be able to tell that there are no actors in a TV show or movie. After all, why pay $50 million for an actor when you can just use computers to generate the actor's image and voice. No problem with them doing controversial scenes or physically impossible scenes since CG actors have no rights.
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Could always do the sensible thing and make everything CG. In a few years, we won't even be able to tell that there are no actors in a TV show or movie. After all, why pay $50 million for an actor when you can just use computers to generate the actor's image and voice. No problem with them doing controversial scenes or physically impossible scenes since CG actors have no rights.
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Bit of a shame. Even though it was quite silly, I enjoyed this show 
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Wasn't that the premise of the movie Looker?
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Could always do the sensible thing and make everything CG. In a few years, we won't even be able to tell that there are no actors in a TV show or movie. After all, why pay $50 million for an actor when you can just use computers to generate the actor's image and voice. No problem with them doing controversial scenes or physically impossible scenes since CG actors have no rights.
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I enjoyed Sanctuary - sometimes. It seemed to drift in what the core show was about to me. Great premise but I lkied the second season best.
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Bloody Hell!
Yay....Universal keeps killing off shows that are actually worth watching because they are too cheap to pay "real" actors and instead replace those shows with game shows....yes reality shows where there is a winner is indeed a game show.... |
I'll miss it, really enjoyed its low budgetness.
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No loss. This show was dead to me from the moment they killed off Magnus' daughter, who was really the only reason to watch.
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My problem was the scheduling. 3 or 4 episodes and then a longs break followed by a few more then a long wait for the next season which by the time it came back around they had already showed several episodes before i found out it was back on.
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No loss. This show was dead to me from the moment they killed off Magnus' daughter, who was really the only reason to watch.
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No loss. This show was dead to me from the moment they killed off Magnus' daughter, who was really the only reason to watch.
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Huh, that must be the prettiest Dane I've never heard about.
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dang.
I wasn't a fan but my wife really liked the show
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She showed up for like one episode of Smallville as Cat Grant, iirc. Thought she was going to be a regular, but guess not.
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No loss. This show was dead to me from the moment they killed off Magnus' daughter, who was really the only reason to watch.
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It's not surprising. SlyLie isn't in the habit of attempting to evolve shows anymore. Eureka's much the same way: Instead of evolving the disaster-a-day format into any one of the short-lived meta-plots and shifting focus around a bit, they cancelled it as well.
Sanctuary was the same way. The "Freak of the week" formula worked for a while, but the show really got fun when you saw Magnus' "Daring Adventure Story" episodes. (And Tesla is just the bomb... I'd what a show based just around him). But instead... SyFy just takes the attitude of "OK... done with that now, cancel it" to make more room for more "Imagine Greater" programming.
I hope that Ms. Tapping takes Sanctuary (or an off-shoot thereof) back to the web.
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Fur is murder, yo!
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I just have to hold out and hope to god that whoever replaces those calling the shots at sci-fi are replaced with people that actually @#$#@$ like the format it's SUPPOSE to have in my lifetime, if not? Kill the channel. It's been braindead for years anyway.
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I just have to hold out and hope to god that whoever replaces those calling the shots at sci-fi are replaced with people that actually @#$#@$ like the format it's SUPPOSE to have in my lifetime, if not? Kill the channel. It's been braindead for years anyway.
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Very few specialty channels stick to their "supposed" format anymore.
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Still, Unlike most pay channels Sci-fi's unscripted original shows suck about as much as that type of programming did back in the 90's. When you compare channels like FX and USA to Sci-fi you can see the massive gap in quality Sci-fi's been turning out.
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You do know they have sci-fi series that will be airing new episodes soon and other sci-fi series in development? I'm looking forward to Defiance.
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Bloody Hell!
Yay....Universal keeps killing off shows that are actually worth watching because they are too cheap to pay "real" actors and instead replace those shows with game shows....yes reality shows where there is a winner is indeed a game show....
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