Sanctuarians

Caught up with the web-series Sanctuary yesterday. Sanctuary is a series of 15 or so minute episodes, of which they got up to eight. The series has been picked up by the Sci Fi Channel and will start screening in October.

The basic premise is... monsters are real. (Although the term in this series is "abnormal"). Not exactly stunningly original. The first four episodes are essentially the pilot, and the second four make up episode two, although since this would make each episode around an hour I doubt the full episodes will be all that content. (I gather that the first two episodes might be reshot as they are very dark.) The style is via CGI-screens to create sets (a formula used by one or two movies in the past), and is more noticeable in some scenes than others.

To be honest, the main pulling element it has at the moment is that it has Amanda "Stargate SG-1" Tapping in it (this being the project she went on to after Stargate finished, which is why she was only in one season of Stargate Atlantis). It's hard to say yet if there will be an ongoing plot-line or if it will devolve into "Abnormal of the Week". It certainly has some promising points built-up, and there's no doubt of high production value in this, but that does not a guaranteed series make...

Definitely a series to keep an eye out for, although I have to say that Amanda's attempted British accent (and "attempted" is the polite word) is not working in the series favour... (at least they didn't have David Boreanaz try to keep up an Irish accent, thankfully).

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