Comments | ceilidh: 4.08, Fugue

ceilidh

4.08, Fugue

Nov 26, 2011 22:17

Okay, now that I am finally home for the night, I can try to pull my thoughts together about this episode. It was such a punch in the gut in the best possible way. I don't even know if I can explain it.

( but I'll try. )

tv: sanctuary

Comments 6

hazyjay November 27 2011, 12:38:22 UTC

Did you just READ MY MIND and write this post?

I'm so surprised at how thought-provoking this episode actually is, because I was really dreading it being one big gimmick. BUT. FEEEEEEEEEELINGS.

ceilidh November 27 2011, 16:21:55 UTC

I wasn't sure what to expect from it. I definitely didn't expect to get so much depth and delicious angst!

leoraine November 27 2011, 14:12:53 UTC

Yeah, lotsa feelings in this one, and it goes to one of my favorites.

Agree with most of what you said here. To the final scene... I have a feeling it was more that Will didn't think he was good enough I guess, that was my first impression anyway. Someone else said that it looked like he was disgusted by the thought of "becoming Magnus" but I really don't think that's the case.

Also while I got his comment about the purpose of the sanctuary if they're not saving those they love (it was spoken in affect and he apologized), the other comment about Magnus wanting to experiment on Abby just so she could have a new abnormal kinda threw me. It also brings up more questions. How far is Magnus willing to go? Where's the line? And which life is more important to her, a human or an abnormal? Or at least that's what Will must've been thinking (and also I hope this will be one of the issues brought up in the episode Depths)

ceilidh November 27 2011, 16:29:00 UTC

I absolutely don't think he was disgusted. Frustrated and confused, maybe, because Magnus says she wants someone who will stand up to her and yet she steamrolls over him anyway, but in no way disgusted. I think Will has confidence issues stemming from his childhood. Every time Magnus talks about him running the Sanctuary he's like "no way", yet when he has to step up to the plate he does it without question (like when she tells him he has to die in Kali III and his response is basically "okay, let's do it"). The only time he's balked is when he has to sing to Abby.

I think the soldier comment bothered him because Will isn't a soldier. He's a helper and a mender, and not a fighter, unless it's in the defense of someone he loves and he'll go further in that than in self-defense, even.

But again, that scene...I don't really know. It left everything open to interpretation and it HURT but I love it.

shanachie_quill November 27 2011, 16:15:19 UTC

Hey, thanks so much for the thoughts! Awesome review. I think they were just growing the annelid in the salamander--not that it was the annelid because Magnus had said something about growing it inside something else ( ... )

ceilidh November 27 2011, 16:42:54 UTC

If Abby was like this all the time, I might love her. I liked her in Vigilante, especially her kindness to Biggie, but in subsequent episodes I hated her especially her constantly putting Will down in One Night (who does that on a date???) and he asking Henry to HAP in Wingman. The way she treats Will pisses me off, but she didn't do that in this ep and was very tender with him after and I was relieved ( ... )