Cards on the table. Sanctuary will be lucky to last beyond the season order it's been given. With a few improvements, it could be a better show by half – the effects will almost certain be more balanced now that it has funding, it has an excellent premise, a style that proves uniquely appealing, and a promising cast – but network television is perhaps too cutthroat an environment for it to thrive in. If it's given the opportunity to develop beyond the self-imposed confines its webisodes suffered from, Sanctuary, when it finally gets an air date, could be worth your time. But the withering corpses of more immediately worthwhile attempts at genre entertainment litter the no man's land it must soon cross. The temptation for its creators must be to get there on tippy-toes, to tread carefully so as not to upset the wreckage all around, but in the end, if Sanctuary is to be anything worth remembering, it cannot survive on the tired trademarks of the genre alone. Somehow, it has to set itself apart, and on that count the failings of its so-so first few hours do not bode well for its future.
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1 - MIke
Sanctuary is an awesome TV show. I loved Outer limits and X-Files. Now i got what i looked for.