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All 13 episodes from season 2 of the Canadian sci-fi/fantasy series following the efforts of 157-year-old English experimental scientist Dr Helen Magnus to provide a safe haven for monstrous creatures known as Abnormals. She is helped in her quest by her reluctant protege, Will Zimmerman (Robin Dunne), and her fearless daughter, Ashley (Emilie Ullerup). Episodes are: 'End of Nights (Part 1)', 'End of Nights (Part 2)', 'Eulogy', 'Hero', 'Pavor Nocturnus', 'Fragments', 'Veritas', 'Next Tuesday', 'Penance', 'Sleepers', 'Haunted', 'Kali (Part 1)' and 'Kali (Part 2)'.
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By Susan Belcher
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Season 2 carried on from where season 1 left off. Dr Helen Magnus and team Sanctuary are trying to discover what happened to Ashley Magnus (Emilie Ullerup) and why she would betray her family and friends and join the Cabal, all while trying to save and protect "abnormals" from those who would do them harm.
The main cast of Amanda Tapping (Dr Helen Magnus), Dr Will Zimmerman (Robin Dunne), John Druitt (Christopher Heyerdahl), Henry Foss (Ryan Robbins) and Bigfoot (Christopher Heyerdahl, again) all return for the second season.
There is also new girl Kate Freelander (Agam Darshi). I'm not sure how I feel about the new team member because to me she seems to have been created to replace Ashley and is in deed, action and attitude an Ashley character clone, just with a different physical look. There is room for character development and I hope that they get rid of the idea that she should be another Ashley and take the character in a direction of its own.
Strangely I enjoyed this season more than season 1 (usually a second season is just either on a par with the first or not quite as good). In this case the stories seem much stronger and have more depth to them than those in the first season. I like the introduction of the Cabal, there is plenty of promise for Sanctuary-Cabal battles and I hope that the opportunity will not be cast aside.
Special Features Include:
- Episode Audio Commentaries
- Five featurettes
- Anatomy of an Episode
- From Script-to-Screen look at "Next Tuesday" episode
- Behind the scenes
- Video diaries
- Bloopers and outtakes
- Production stills photo gallery
The good news is that the third season of Sanctuary started filming on 15 March 2010, and I can't wait.
The main cast of Amanda Tapping (Dr Helen Magnus), Dr Will Zimmerman (Robin Dunne), John Druitt (Christopher Heyerdahl), Henry Foss (Ryan Robbins) and Bigfoot (Christopher Heyerdahl, again) all return for the second season.
There is also new girl Kate Freelander (Agam Darshi). I'm not sure how I feel about the new team member because to me she seems to have been created to replace Ashley and is in deed, action and attitude an Ashley character clone, just with a different physical look. There is room for character development and I hope that they get rid of the idea that she should be another Ashley and take the character in a direction of its own.
Strangely I enjoyed this season more than season 1 (usually a second season is just either on a par with the first or not quite as good). In this case the stories seem much stronger and have more depth to them than those in the first season. I like the introduction of the Cabal, there is plenty of promise for Sanctuary-Cabal battles and I hope that the opportunity will not be cast aside.
Special Features Include:
- Episode Audio Commentaries
- Five featurettes
- Anatomy of an Episode
- From Script-to-Screen look at "Next Tuesday" episode
- Behind the scenes
- Video diaries
- Bloopers and outtakes
- Production stills photo gallery
The good news is that the third season of Sanctuary started filming on 15 March 2010, and I can't wait.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Format:DVD
Another excellent offering in this series. Yet more innovative ideas and presented well. Amanda Tapping continuing to improve beyond Stargate SG-1.
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13 more episodes, all with commentaries. A grim start with Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping) and her team facing their greatest crisis yet - the formidable Cabal launching a full-scale attack on the world's sanctuaries, determined to destroy all the abnormals they protect.
Yes, attention is grabbed - but sadly not held throughout the season, the standard wobbling a bit. Visually the series remains stunning. Other aspects, though, need urgent attention if the whole concept of such sanctuaries is to be plausible. Repeatedly we are shown the magnificent, rambling building but never is there a realistic hint of how it is staffed. Surely not by just Helen, Will, Henry, Big Guy and Kate - who anyway seem to be elsewhere most of the time? Who does the cleaning, cooking, etc.? How many abnormals does the place house - scores, hundreds? Tending for them must surely be a colossal undertaking? Practicalities have not been thought through.
Perhaps it is best to put the brain on standby and not to ask, just to sit back and relish the various adventures. There is certainly much to entertain. A personal selection of highlights? Ep.5 - Helen waking up in the future, the world in ruins. Ep.7 - a shocker, she in maximum security, charged with killing Big Guy. Ep.8 has strong echoes of one in Season 1 - watery perils again faced by Helen and Will, with them the only participants. Attempts at humour perhaps generally misfire, an exception Ep.10 with vampires inadvertently created. Immensely enjoyable too is Will's Bollywood Musical dance routine (although it has a serious purpose).
Although arguably not as involving as it could be, there is much to please - and, hopefully, still to look forward to.
Yes, attention is grabbed - but sadly not held throughout the season, the standard wobbling a bit. Visually the series remains stunning. Other aspects, though, need urgent attention if the whole concept of such sanctuaries is to be plausible. Repeatedly we are shown the magnificent, rambling building but never is there a realistic hint of how it is staffed. Surely not by just Helen, Will, Henry, Big Guy and Kate - who anyway seem to be elsewhere most of the time? Who does the cleaning, cooking, etc.? How many abnormals does the place house - scores, hundreds? Tending for them must surely be a colossal undertaking? Practicalities have not been thought through.
Perhaps it is best to put the brain on standby and not to ask, just to sit back and relish the various adventures. There is certainly much to entertain. A personal selection of highlights? Ep.5 - Helen waking up in the future, the world in ruins. Ep.7 - a shocker, she in maximum security, charged with killing Big Guy. Ep.8 has strong echoes of one in Season 1 - watery perils again faced by Helen and Will, with them the only participants. Attempts at humour perhaps generally misfire, an exception Ep.10 with vampires inadvertently created. Immensely enjoyable too is Will's Bollywood Musical dance routine (although it has a serious purpose).
Although arguably not as involving as it could be, there is much to please - and, hopefully, still to look forward to.
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Amazing
Love the sanctuary series, shame it has to end at series 5 but it is good none the less :)
Published 3 months ago by Doctor Duckie
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Sanctuary - Season 2
a presant that was thanked for with many hugs, not seen them myself but had a raveing review from the owner.
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These are great i bought them all :) I hope they make another series, DVD work great and were fine :)
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Sanctuary Season 2
Superb leaves wanting more, it gives you more insight in how they become and how they survived til now without going over board making it more plausable. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Lorne
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better than the first series.
The shows second series was better than the first, and the third is even better.
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BUt this was a solid season. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Michael Dobey
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So good i had to buy season 3 straight after
This is a good si-fi dvd. you will have to carrying on watching the other series as its bulding up to a big story line. Read more
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entertaining and interesting, once you get thro the first couple of episodes which are a bit weird, would have given the first series one extra star, but this isnt bad as a follow... Read more
Published 20 months ago by linsi13
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Waste of DVD
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Published 21 months ago by David Edwards
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fantastic and monsterous
Love this series have watched all of season one and now this. Will be getting season 3 when it comes out.
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