Woo reaction spoilers etc

[maccadole]

Spontaneous reactions:

PETER WINGFIELD!!!

Sanctuary's back, yay!

PETER WINGFIELD!!

Ever since the trailers I've been worried about the cast, by the way. Lastly with the, uh, opening picture. Hey, I didn't love Kate at first. I could stand her. Then I liked her, and then I loved her. Or... REALLY liked her, at least. And great, gee, thanks, as soon as you start liking someone they're basically gone. Or literally gone. Sigh, TV choices.
Also John. Biggie instead of John? Really? Well, okay.
I hope this doesn't mean anything.

Anyway, I should watch the episode.

JAMES!!!

"You've taken a terrible tumble." James, you are adorable. Era, you are adorable!

I like Helen's room, with the bed out from the corner. I'd do that if I had enough space. Fireplace, too. To die for.

JEALOUSY FOR WHOM! Helen says to John re: hanging out with James. Oh dear!

Darling, hello! Jaaaames and Heleeeennn. I love it.

The hell. So what's up with random turok-han creature? Because John killed the women. Did the abnormal kill them in this timeline? Was anything changed in the end? Did that change? Did they both kill people but it was unrelated? Is John innocent? Excuse me... I'm slow, and confused, and I have a massive headache.

Also living that many years alone and then rejoining "our" timeline? Won't that be beyond strange? In our present time, she'll have been gone for a second, or not at all, but to her extremely many years will have passed. She must feel so detached by the time it's, well, time to join again.


Overall reaction:

Well, I liked seeing the past through the Helen we know and love. Mad appreciation for Past Helen, too, but I like her better when she's modern and fierce (and brunette).
Time travel is always confusing, but equally entertaining most of the... time. Yeah, that word keeps cropping up. It was cool enough to have Helen hide from Helen. Psych! In a way.

Nice to have more a point/ending to the Adam Worth thing. It felt sort of moot earlier. I didn't really understand what he was doing then, and then he sort of just disappeared.
But now that's settled. Poor man, losing his daughter.

The episode wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. Well, no, it was good. It just wasn't fantastic.

Dunno. Need to go take care of my headache. More later if I think of anything.

Cheers!

ETA:
Well. If one's smart... the dates don't match up and it's all blah blah ten years, or whatever. So John did the original murders, and now James is suspecting other murders to be John's work. Helen knows it's not, and helps the situation by talking to Jack blah blah. And all is well.

I've also come to the conclusion that I do like this episode. I'm very fond of experiencing the past with our Helen, and not via flashback.
At the end of last season I was moping around, because the show had stayed so far from what I originally loved. We had several neutral episodes, and some flat out dumb ones, and then simply boring ones. Lots of Will and Abby and Helen and Will. And Helen and Will. And also Will. And then some more Will.

Honestly, I don't like Will that much. I 'whatever' him. I suppose that's sad, and I'm sorry. It's not that I hate him, he's just... boring? Personal opinion!

I loved the Magnus family! John and Helen and Ashley. Their story. Which is part why I like this episode, I realized, because it was a callback to their relationship and it made me think of how scared season one Helen was of John [returning]. It makes perfect sense for her to fear him after the scene we witnessed. He threatened her severely. That was traumatic. Look at her face!

I can understand how it must've felt good to kick his ass after listening in on that conversation and knowing the things she knows, and feeling the way she does. Because she clearly enjoyed beating him up, or does anyone disagree?
They're so dysfunctional, those two. Nor a normal relationship, that.

Although I liked this episode and am excited to have the show back I'm still worried about this season. This was good, but how will they deal with the rest? I don't really care at all about Praxis or Hollow Earth abnormals coming out of hiding or whatever. And I finally fell in love with Kate, and she was already underused, and now she'll be reduced even more? That's just unlucky.

Comments

[monkeyscorpion.livejournal.com]

Agam had scheduling conflicts, it wasn't a purposeful cut on Kate time. And she said she does have a cool storyline (or scenes) this season.

I'm way too much of a Helen/John (anytime) or Helen/Tesla (current time) shipper. As much as I love James, I just do not like Helen/James at all. But that's me.

Overall I thought the episode was good. And it ended the way Helen wanted it to. Imogen (sp) dead, Adam going crazy any way so that any changes that did occur, were hopefully small and insignificant to the rest of it.

The only issue I have with messing with time is it's all basically a big loop. If Helen goes back, she'll go back again, and again and again every time that point in time arrives. And of course, looking at it that way, there's no way for time to move beyond that point unless she makes the conscious decision NOT to go back. In which case, if Adam still goes back, time will move forward for Helen, or not, depending on what Adam does in the past. To quote Janeway from Voyager: "The future is the past, the past is the future. It all gives me a headache."