Sanctuary wins this week

This is what I've been watching this week. I'll start with what I think was the best thing on:

Sanctuary

This is fast becoming one of my favourite series. End of Nights was a really exciting two part episode. Part two was especially dramatic, and really really sad. I kind of expected invisible girl to die though. Would have been nice if they'd waited a while, until we'd got to know her more and it made more impact, but it still worked. Of course the most upsetting death was Ashley. That really was unexpected! I thought they might keep her evil for a while, to make things interesting, but I wasn't expecting her to die so soon into season 2. Amanda Tapping was great in how she played Magnus dealing with the whole situation.

This really is a fantastic TV show. It mixes humour, drama, cheesiness, ridiculous monster stories and a load more into one show. Hey, doesn't Farscape do that too?! Okay so it's not on that level of awesome yet, but it's still great.

Stargate Universe

Eh, it's getting better. I wish Rush wasn't quite so much of an arse. It's like they've got McKay and taken away all the humour and the hidden caring side he has, and what they're left with is a character who isn't at all likeable. Eli continues to be a good character though, and Young is growing on me. One thing that struck me about this episode (Darkness) is that it's kind of like the first episode of Atlantis, only really dragged out. In Rising, when they first got there, everything was going wrong. One problem after another. Universe is like that, only the problems take longer to fix, and there's lots of non-Stargatey angst and arguments along the way. Like I said though, I did like Darkness better than Air part 3.

Dollhouse

So excited that this is back! Lots of direction changes here. Ballard is working for the Dollhouse, Echo remembers stuff, Saunders knows she's an active. That last point is quite interesting, if only for Whisky/Saunders and her confrontations with Topher. Seeing his human side for the first time outside of that future episode was interesting. I'm not sure how this'll go with Echo knowing she's an active and Ballard secretly trying to bring down the Dollhouse, but I'm sure Joss Whedon will make it awesome.

Weird thing about that first episode was seeing Jamie Bamber be English, and Alexis Denisof (I like that he's in it now) being American. Both of their voices sound really different in their real accents. Denisof sounds like he's putting on the American, but since he is American, it's just weird. It looks like they'll be some good guest stars this time around though.

Heroes

What can I say? It's alright. I think Heroes will probably only ever be alright. I mean, it is interesting, and I'll always stick with it, but it's never going to be the greatest thing on TV. It gets exciting sometimes, and they it's not again. I like the Nathan/Sylar story. I'm not really all that bothered about the new story yet though, with the carnival guy. I guess we'll see how it goes.

Modern Family

Just a brief mention for this. It's a new comedy by the Frasier people. I watched the first episode, and it looks well worth watching. It's series linked on Sky+ based on episode one anyway, since I had a good laugh at it. This is on the Sky+, and Eastbound and Down is off.

Warehouse 13

Still impressed with this series. I don't have much to say about it this week, other than that the idea that there's a dark side to it has made it even more intriguing.

FlashForward

Is Merry the Hobbit going to be D Gibbons?! Or was it Commander Norrington all along?! That was certainly a shocker at the end of that last episode. This series continues to be one of the most exciting on TV, and probably comes second to Sanctuary right now in my eyes. How were people responsibly for the flashforward?! I suspect aliens.