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Rewatching
posted by SpaceRanger06STAFFMOD on February 22, 2017 at 12:36 AM
Currently rewatching the show for the first time since it stopped airing. It's quite nice to watch it and not have to wait a week, a month etc for a new episode. Because I'd only ever seen each episode once it's like I'm watching the show for the first time. Peter Bishop has got to be one of my favorite tv characters. He's hilarious. Watching S01E12 right now. I heard Netflix removed it, luckily I always buy my favorite shows on bluray (or DVD) once they have finished. Nothing better than owning your own physical copy.
Reply by Midi-chlorian_Count
on December 25, 2022 at 6:30 PM
I would 100% recommend skipping episode 19 of season 4 and stopping at the end of that season. i.e. watch none of season 5. The show is complete at a high standard at that point...
Now, obviously I don't expect you'll do this - but you'll see what I mean afterwards!
Reply by Steve
on December 25, 2022 at 10:20 PM
Chadwick Boseman too! Anyway, I'm into season 4 and it's still pretty great.
Reply by bratface
on December 26, 2022 at 1:53 AM
Ignore the post above yours.
Reply by wonder2wonder
on January 1, 2023 at 7:02 AM
Season 5 wasn't the best, but at least the series had a finale and not a cliffhanger.
Reply by Midi-chlorian_Count
on January 1, 2023 at 1:26 PM
It's been a few years since I watched this but didn't season 4 wrap things up for the most part?
I thought season 5 was basically just an extended offshoot of that terrible episode which basically screwed up the observers...
Reply by wonder2wonder
on January 1, 2023 at 1:29 PM
You're right, but some weren't happy with 'the ending' in season 4 and wanted something else.
Reply by Steve
on January 5, 2023 at 10:53 AM
Season 5 is... something. Last night I watched an episode about a village of historians with bark growing on their skin. The show all of a sudden is like a spin off of Stargate. And it's so creepy to have the grown daughter as a regular cast member and she looks just like Liv. At least Astra gets more to do but this is a tough watch.
Reply by bratface
on January 5, 2023 at 2:17 PM
I really hated that the show ended. I think I'll rewatch season 5 this weekend, it's been a long time. I remember bits & pieces from it when I read the episode descriptions on Wiki. I re-watched the last 4 episodes of season 4 tonight (so I wouldn't be completely lost when I watch 5 this weekend). It was weird how they were in 2036 in episode 19 & then back to 2012 in the remaining episodes of the season.
Reply by Steve
on February 21, 2023 at 5:56 PM
I think I like Season 2 and 3 the best. I did miss a few of the earlier characters like one of the FBI guys, and Olivia's boyfriend in the coma. One thing that definitely impressed was seeing Anna Torv really grow in the role. Same could be said for Jasika Nicole who could have had a fun spinoff show with Astrid. The joke about forgetting her name should have ended sooner in the series since they all because family. I mean she even went into the amber without a thought about her real family.
Reply by FeRDNYC
on February 22, 2023 at 5:20 PM
That's being too generous. It devolves into an extended ripoff of Sanctuary. And not even the "good" Sanctuary episodes (which were still pretty bad).
Reply by FeRDNYC
on February 22, 2023 at 5:22 PM
(Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely a huge Fringe fan. That show was four seasons of great TV.
Unfortunately, they made five seasons.)
Reply by Steve
on February 22, 2023 at 6:37 PM
Never saw Sanctuary. Is that worth my time? Season 5 started horrible but they did make some course corrections and it wasn't as bad in the second half. Still yeah, the worst season.
Reply by bratface
on February 22, 2023 at 8:13 PM
It was an 'interesting' show. It was better than some of the others that aired on SyFy. The main character is played by the actress Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter on Stargate). It's available on AMC+ or for free on Plex.
Reply by FeRDNYC
on February 23, 2023 at 11:34 PM
Her accent, OTOH, was played by a roulette wheel of "Non-Geographically Specific Mysterious High-Society Adventurer Archetypes™ ". A bit of new-world colonial haughtiness, a bit of upper-class pseudoBritish snobbiness, a bit of Canadian... Basically, throw the national dialect of English from every country that has one into a blender, pulse it on "coarse" like 2-3 times max, and immediately chug everything that comes out. Often, all within a single sentence!
I want to say it got better as the show progressed, but I don't think that's actually true. I think it's more like, we just ended up normalizing it into, "Well, that nonsense is just how her character is supposed to sound." I guess you really can get used to anything over time.
The less said about her co-star Robin Dunne (and even moreso, his character), the better.
The supporting cast was far better, the highlight being — as always, whenever he's involved — good ol' reliable (and reliably weird) Christopher Heyerdahl. Ryan Robbins also stuck it out for all 59 episodes, to my surprise.
...The stories were generic monster-of-the-week supernatural (both small- and capital-S) fare, for the most part. The production was up-and-down, never spectacular but sometimes making good use of the modest budget. (Marred, in the later seasons, by a disturbing tendency to rely too heavily on blatantly virtual sets that left the actors feeling eerily disconnected from their own environment.)
The show enjoyed a deep roster of guest actors from the greater "sci-fi TV world", including all the usual Stargate-franchise suspects: Dan Shea, Gary Jones, Paul McGillion, David Nykl, both Peter and Anne Marie DeLuise, Chuck Campbell, Callum Blue... everybody dropped by at least once. And there were a few enjoyable semi-regulars, including Jonathon Young's take on Nikola Tesla, and Ian Tracy (who always seemed a bit like he'd gotten lost on his way to a better part, but just decided to make the most of it while he was there).