Sanctuary: One Night

25 Apr 2011 9 Comments

by Nikkiin tv Tags: , , , , ,

Okay, I’m quick to criticise everything, but I do try not to get too negative about shows whose fandoms I closely follow – there’s already too much hate in fandom, y’know? But the latest Sanctuary? Agghh! Just… agghh! Why so stupid, Abby, why so stupid?

Cut for spoilers, obviously.

omg, Abby has to be the dumbest character on Sanctuary ever. Even dumber than Will’s last girlfriend, the invisible girl. srsly Will, you have a terrible taste in women. I mean, really, who the fuck actually escapes from a hostage situation… and then runs right back into it? Especially when you’re the leverage! And, dammit, I woulda downright applauded Abby and thought she was pretty awesome if she had just thought to phone the fucking Sanctuary before rehostaging herself. Even if you don’t know the number off the top of your head, you just ran around to all these suppliers asking for the Sanctuary rate – clearly the Sanctuary are regular customers and, well, a store is a store – they always have a way to contact their favoured buyers. So, yeah, if she had phoned, filled in Kate on wtf was going down and then went back to Will so that they don’t kill him, I woulda been fuck yeah, Abby is awesome. Go Abby.

But, no, she just basically did nothing. Worse than nothing – she got a guy pissed at them for no reason.

Just cuz it’s worth mentioning, I don’t like the invisible girl cuz she was all ooooh nooo having powers sucks boo hoo hoo and I was like I will cut you bitch – you turn invisible. You look 100% human. There is nothing about you that spells out I AM AN ABNORMAL on your forehead. No. You’re just a human with fucking superpowers.

And you bitch about ‘em.

And I hate characters who bitch about superpowers when they’re not a curse. Helen? Helen can bitch about being quasi-immortal. It would really suck at times. (Though, as an aside, I think Helen’s longevity isn’t just a physical thing – I think it affected her mind as well. She and Tesla, both biologically immortal(ish) adapted to the changing times with great ease. James with his mechanical slowed aging, however, did not. And John’s too crazy to know if he fits into the 21st century.) John certainly can bitch about teleporting – it turned him into Jack the Ripper. Hell, even Tesla could bitch about being a vampire, but Tesla thought that being a monster was cool. And I like that about him.

But the girl who can choose whether or not to be invisible? No. You can not complain. You could complain if you were like the proper H. G. Wells character (um, for those who haven’t read The Invisible Man, Griffin can’t make himself visible again and turns crazy), but you are not.

Okay, I’m done being bitchy now. Though, if you have a reason for why I shouldn’t hate on Abby, please tell me. I don’t like hating characters.

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  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    Wait she has literally one of the canonically best super powers and is bitching about it? WHY!? is it because she is annoyed that to make use of her power she needs to strip in public? Because no one will see thats the whole point XP

    If she had invisibility like the lady on venture brothers then it would be different. her invisibility only works on her skin. Which is pretty horrible, i don’t want people seeing inside of me.

  • http://anovelconcept.net Nikki

    Yup. And she also was too nervous to go invisible cuz she had to strip so she made Will get naked with her. And it wasn’t (entirely) a ploy to see Will (mostly) naked.

    srsly, the less clothes Will has on, the more I like him.

  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    thats a pretty great scheme. I can’t show you what I look like invisible unless you get naked. I should try that on all the ladies I’m sure to get positive results.

    I’m pretty sure you liking him more as he gets naked is the intended female reaction. I know thats why the reverse scenario happens so I assume its the same thing.

  • http://anovelconcept.net Nikki

    It’s so rare for the main fanservice character to be male, though. Though Helen does have her moments – mmm, swimming in white blouses.

  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    Yeah, its not really my thing, but I think tv could use to even up the fanservice a bit.

    mmmm wet t-shirts. too bad that a lot of the fun of a lady in a soaking white t-shirt is stuff you can’t really show on tv, so they edit it in a way so that if your lucky you maybe get to see some bra straps, even though they can show a them in just the bra so I don’t get it. although sometimes they cheat, and the actress “forgets” to wear a bra and then its all this scene guest staring the actresses erect nipples. they really steal the scene, but sadly they don’t get a mention in the credits. But its a lot of fun when they make their cameos :3

  • http://anovelconcept.net Nikki

    Amanda Tapping’s cheat seems to be wearing a swimsuit or a camisole underneath her blouse.

    Oooo, damn, now I want to watch the McKay in the leaking puddle jumper episode where he hallucinates Sam in a bikini. Which is doubly magnificent cuz, uhhh, weeeeell… AT kinda just had her kid and was still breast feeding.

    Wow, the fact that I know that is kinda really fucking creepy. It’s not my fault – she said it in a Women of Stargate interview with the SGU ladies. And since one was pregnant at the time, acting whilst pregnant came up.

  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    hmmm interesting. sanctuary is the next show I will marathon so I will investigate the mystery of whats under her shirt.

    Dude, its super creepy you know that. there is only one level of knowledge about someone other then your boobs that is possible, and that is when you can recognize her cycle by amount of swelling in the chest. I don’t even know how possible that is but i’ve seen people claim it…

    leaky puddle jumper is a weird euphemism for a pregnant ladies breasts…

  • http://anovelconcept.net Nikki

    In the drenched in water scenes, it’s definitely a camisole for at least one of them. It’s pretty obvious, as the cami is black and her shirt is white.

    It’s not my fault! It’s AT’s for telling a silly story about how she kept running to her trailer and flashing her kid’s nanny! I think she was doing that weird breastfeeding mother thing where your boobs only purpose is to feed your kid and why the hell would you think that they’re attractive?

    And, yes, that is theoretically possible.

  • http://www.monoclelad.com monoclelad

    It definitely requires more powers of perception then I have.

    I mean there was a point where I could almost figure out your cycle but that was when we were chatting pretty hardcore for several hours a night. It was kind of a case of investigating a pattern and when I realized what I was doing it was too late to hit undo… I can’t really do it anymore so that is good.