Dr. Doolittle, I Presume? By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Sanctuary Fridays at 10/9 C on SciFi Channel “Sanctuary for All” Written by Damian Kindler and Sam Egan Directed by Martin Wood It’s difficult to know whether Friday’s two-hour episode of SciFi Channel’s Sanctuary can be considered a “premiere”, since this episode originally debuted in May last year. However, it did not air as part of a television broadcast—it was the first in a series of webisodes. This “new series” is the SciFi Channel’s attempt to expand the online show into a full fledged broadcast series. Let’s call it…
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Sanctuary: “Fata Morgana”
Three Rings for the Elves? By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Sanctuary Fridays at 10/9 C on SciFi Channel “Fata Morgana” Story by Damian Kindler & Martin Wood; Teleplay by Damian Kindler Directed by Martin Wood “When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” Macbeth (I, i, 1-2) Does anyone else wonder about the ethics of someone just waltzing into a foreign country and “acquiring” three of its citizens (comatose citizens, no less, who can’t fight back)? And all this in pursuit of an elixir for immortality that the world has to be protected from?…