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Sanctuary: The Complete First Season

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Sanctuary: The Complete First Season

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The enigmatic Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping) and her Sanctuary team are on a quest to study and protect the strange and terrifying creatures that secretly populate our world. Along with their newest recruit, forensic psychiatrist Will Zimmerman (Robin Dunne), the group must face their darkest fears and their worst nightmares in order to provide a safe haven for the monsters that lurk in the shadows. As seen on SciFi Channel. From the writers and producers of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

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Product Details

Actors:	Amanda Tapping, Christopher Heyerdahl, Robin Dunne, Emilie Ullerup
Format:	AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language:	English
Subtitle:	English
Number of Discs:	4
Studio:	E1 Entertainment
Run Time:	585 minutes
DVD Release Date:	September 15, 2009
Average Customer Rating:	based on 61 reviews

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.0

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Very entertaining Jul 20, 2010
This is truly an awesome show and a must see for any fan the genre or fans of the actors from Star Gate SG1, Amanda Tapping is brilliant in this as well and many other SG1 actors make cameo appearances throughout seasons 1 and 2. I have seen other reviews that call this a monster of the week show but I must at least partially disagree with that, while it is true that most episodes introduce a new "monster" the show also has a more than subtle understory that starts developing fairly fast after the first couple episodes and then comes and goes to varying degrees. All in all I can't say much more without adding spoilers, I will add for those who are already fans of the show that the extra content is good as well, especially if you have never seen the original sanctuary web series as it is included on disc 4.

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Interesting attempt at a story line Jul 18, 2010
I will admit to "liking" this show in that it pulled me in by its attempt at a good storyline....but....

throw in an evil overlord (the kabol ) and their attempt to over throw the supposedly evil misformed creatures that aren't "normal"....and then.....

throw in the group of Five (Watson from Sherlock Holms fame, Tesla (yeah, that one) as a vampire, The granddaughter of the Invisible Man, Jack the Riper, and.....who was that? Helen Magnas ) and you have a second rate sci fi story.

now, i could have forgiven the hokey story, the evil bad guys trying to kill everyone that isn't "human" and the The Five, if they could only keep their story STRAIGHT. the story bounces around, makes things up, and changes history for the sake of the episode at hand.

When i ordered this i also oredered Seaon 2 wishing it was going to be a good story. I sit in Dialysis for 2.5 hours a day 5 days a week and i am always looking for good viewing material. I hope Season Two is better

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Horrible--deserves a "zero" star Jul 14, 2010
I really, really wanted to like this series, but it's just too cheesy. Bad acting, bad special effects (beyond bad) and plots that are so thin you can predict each step along the way. Season 1 was worse than Season 2, but it's like comparing two piles of garbage that are rotting in the sun...which one smells worse?

It was a terrific concept (santuary for all) that was executed poorly. In Season 2, Will seems to be told "ok, act tough here" so he leaves his lower lip hanging as though seeing his teeth tells us that he's now a rough and buff toughie.

Don't waste your money on this one.

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Promising show, terrible BD packaging. Jul 12, 2010
Forgetting the fact that it feels a little like a Stargate rip, this show was much better than I expected. The plotlines were more sophisticated, the CG more adventurous, and the characters were more appealing. It's like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Stargate SG1. Being a television series, heavily laden with CG, that, while good enough for broadcast, probably wouldn't hold up on a large screen, I watched the Blu-rays on a modest 52" 1080p in our living room, instead of in the dedicated HT. At that size, it generally looked great, and the CG was believable enough, though use of green screens became more obvious in massion interiors, forsaking the illusion to some degree. Still, overall, the shows ambition was worth a look.

The studio includes both lossless surround as well as basic stereo, which usually provides better clarity for people without surround sound, as downmixing in many players can be degrading, if not deleterious. And intelligibility of the stereo mix was excellent. There's a redundant DD 5.1 mix included as well, which is completely uneccessary as DTS HD includes an even better lossy core that every BD player should be able to extract. Having auditioned the show in our living room instead of our HT, I won't comment on either surround mix. I would like to caution about the packaging though. E1 has chosen a cheap cardboard and plastic packaging solution that's rather annoying to use, as two of the discs are stacked atop the others, meaning you have to remove disc 1 to get to disc 2 and you have to remove disc 3 to get to disc 4.

Disimilar to other cheap cases, however, this case uses a disc retaining system that I've never seen before and frankly hope to never see again, as it apparently doesn't work. Despite good packaging by amazon, all four discs arrived loose in the case. Fortunately, these aren't DVDs, which would have been scratched by the packaging for sure. Thanks to Blu-rays scratch resistant coating, the discs appeared to be undamaged. However, the second disc froze in one spot, either due to unseen damage or replication error at the factory. Cleaning the disc with a lint-free microfiber camera lens cleaning cloth did not help, either. In case it is a production issue and not a result of the discs coming loose in the case or an isolated occurance, I'd suggest watching the series, at least disc two, before the return window closes, to avoid getting stuck with a defective disc - especially if your discs arrive loose too, but whether you see any damage or not.

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Dissatisified with product Jun 17, 2010
I absolutely love the show and the different creatures displayed on the show.I however was disappointed the way the dvds were packaged by using a different way to hold dvds in the tray.The company should have used the old format with the center hub to push the dvds out of plastic tray.The other disappointment was the 5.1 audio broadcast,because I had to literally turn the volume up to a ridicilous level just to hear the voices.The other bluray dvds I bought and own never had that problem,I have a bluray home theater and had to turn the volume to 25,while the other dvds was load at volume 20+.In my opinion the manufacture should go back and redo the complete set to satisfy the consumer considering the cost of the set.Best Buy does offer the set for $29.99 and season 1 for $32.99 but with the inferior product you still aren't getting the best product for the price anyway.
Dissatisfied customer,
Michael Lee/Denver