I'm watching the episode currently and I just have a hard time someone in the production team actually watched this and let it get broadcasted. This is horrible.
The actors' singing voices generally sound fine but the 'songs' are just atrocious. These are not songs, they're just people speaking in a singsong voice over extremely simple instrumental tracks. Henry's rendition of "The Parting Glass" was good but that's a traditional drinking song.
I'm a huge fan of musicals, and I was surprised how much I liked this episode. Generally speaking, I don't like musical episodes at all; they're weird and out of place (the Bollywood scene in the season two finale was cringe-inducing). But I thought this was a really clever way to sneak in a musical episode, and even though the actors were just delivering lines in a singsong manner, I quite liked it. I dislike Abby immensely, but the actress who plays her has an amazing voice!
P.S. Does anyone know what the titles of the songs are, if they even have titles?
"He's already attracted to her. Time and monotony will do the rest."
When they sing words that aren't really a song, it's called the recitative (reh-chee-ta-TEEF) -- in opera, anyway. It's just sung ordinary speech, the stuff that goes in between the real songs (arias) to connect the songs to the action. That's what we had here: all recitative, no arias. No wonder it sounded awful. And the whole singing to the other Sanctuary leaders was just beyond credibility. Stupid. Awful. Hokey. Enough, already! Let's never do this again.
shareFirst episode I had to stop watching. Not because of the singing(although bad), but Wills reaction to the surgery was over the top irrational and out of character (that also goes for the dude who freed him. What's the logic behind that?). That kind of writing can make me stop watching a show completely if repeated.
shareUm....over the top irrational and out of character? What? She was implanting something that was going to eat it's way out of his girlfriend and kill her! And not only was Magnus not sure it was going to work but she went behind Will's back and had him locked up when he wanted to stop her! The one redeeming trait about Will is that he has ALWAYS called Magnus out when he thought she was being reckless and wrong. And this was more than understandable. Same goes for the FBI partner, he thought it was dangerous as well.
But if you watched it that far, I seriously doubt you 'stopped watching'.
Carl: I stabbed him 37 times in the chest
Paul: Carrlll that KILLS people!
It's only the last 5-10 minutes I didn't see.
And I'm not questioning the danger of the surgery, but the fact that Will's logic, or lack thereof, is that no surgery would be better.
Um....once again...said surgery involved something chewing it's way out of his girlfriend. And in that surgery the only reason it WAS successful
was because they were lucky and able to restart her heart. Will kind of had a point in believing that there was probably another way that wouldn't involve a fist sized hole in my significant other
Carl: I stabbed him 37 times in the chest
Paul: Carrlll that KILLS people!
The point is that (if I remember correctly, I was only half paying attention at this point) the options were either:
1. Crazy surgery but Abby might survive
2. Freeze Abby which would kill her
3. Do nothing which would kill her
The surgery was the only option where Abby had a chance of surviving, and Will was spazzing out that it was too dangerous. It's like you're in a car with no brakes about to go off the edge of a cliff and you decide not to hit a tree that might stop the car because the crash might kill you.
I wanted to see Magnus turn around and say something like "Okay Will, your call. No surgery. Henry, could you go prep the autopsy table for me?"
I love musicals. My late father didn't. He found it dumb that someone would be standing on the side of a mountain and suddenly a full orchestra is playing and the character breaks into song! When the singing broke out in the episode "Fugue" I understood how he felt!
Wtf is going on with Sanctuary? I hate this episode almost as I did when they did that hindi episode (from season 2 I believe)...bad! bad!! bad!!! :/
shareI liked the episode, the justification for music was fine and it wasn't exactly a 'musical' episode. Most of the 'songs' were just discussions etc, and for some reason people in this thread are making that as a complaint? They were trying to get through to Abby because she couldn't process normal speech/vocal patterns... they're not going to make her find a meaning in a song, they'll sing what they would normally say to her... don't think you got the point of it at all people. Some of the episodes have been really fun this season.
shareAs I said in one of my other posts, if they had done what you said they did and just have the characters singing in order to communicate with Abby, it probably would have been fine.
But that's not what they did. They added crappy canned musical tracks underneath it, shoehorned a couple of full-fledged songs in and threw more of the horrible non-singing into places where it made no logical sense. If they were just discussions that they were singing so that Abbey could understand, why were they--without any preparation beforehand--set to a beat and rhyming?
We got the point. It was just badly done.
I just had to stop watching it was too painful. I can handle the premise, something's going on in her brain which means she can only hears words when they're sung, but...
Why does that have to translate to full musical backgrounds and duets with perfect timing? If you want to be vaguely 'realistic' just have them sing the dialogue, no harmony or background music, perfectly timed interruptions or protests.
Hearing actual songs though would have made it worse (and yes, I hated Once More With Feeling too).
Because if that happened then you and everyone else would still be on here complaining that it was off and there was no music. If you want to delve into that bit of logic, then there shouldn't be any music at ALL in this show because music doesn't follow you all the time and fill in the gaps of your life when you're getting stuff done.
Carl: I stabbed him 37 times in the chest
Paul: Carrlll that KILLS people!
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If you think Pascale Hutton's acting or singing is bad, then I suggest you turn off whatever Lady Gaga/justin Beiber/Twilight crap you watch and figure out what talent truly is. Because it's not her fault the character isn't that great, it's the writers.
Carl: I stabbed him 37 times in the chest
Paul: Carrlll that KILLS people!
While I think they did take some serious creative risks with this episode, I really loved the end result. I think the singing (as goofy as it may have come across) added to the emotiveness of the main storyline.
Not a lot of SGA fans on this board then.
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All but the Henry singing scene grossly over produced the characters voices to fit the backing music, really just left me thinking the actors are tone deaf or something.
Granted it's an issue that's extremely common when shows do the musical episode, there's a big difference between singing and running someones speaking voice through production software.
Well, this is a way to kill of Sanctuary.
Who in their right mind thought that a part musical episode would be good? serious come on
Do they all think we are 16year old girls who watch Glee and think its the new black.
Yeah, because it's not like there were musicals before Glee at all!
Carl: I stabbed him 37 times in the chest
Paul: Carrlll that KILLS people!
*Sure* there were musicals before Glee -- but that's not what this was: this was an isolated episode that included singing on a non-singing show, and there wasn't even a decent plot to justify it. This was a mess, in more than one way. And it takes nothing away from the bravery of the generally non-singing actors here to admit that it was a mess from the word 'GO' and that they should've skipped it.
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