Comments on: Sanctuary: Ashley Is Dead

By: Georgie

Georgie — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:29:19 +0000

Playing the race card eh?

Well,I’m just glad that character is off the show, mostly, and I wish Agam Dashi better luck elsewhere, and NEVER come back.

If they want to multi-colour up the cast (and I agree, the all white in Canada is a problem), they could have brought in Will’s ex-girlfriend, who was more well rounded in one episode than Kate was all season. Sloth endears a human trafficker as much as clumsiness rounds out a cardboard female lead in rom-coms – not at all.

Filth is gross, it’s primary used in two ways:
1. Pure comedy of a character designed to be awful all around – usually the fat dirty sexist pig – Fat Bastard from Austin Powers
2. To show a workholic or genius character type as in need of mothering. Important!!!: Because sloth in this case is suppose indicate the workholic/genius as A Child Inside, this character should not be sexualised (hitting on anyone), or it becomes 1) Abhorrent Admirer.

Kate isn’t a well thought out character at all, some ‘writer’ shook out some cliche into the garbage disposal and gave us the puree, never minding that some cliches don’t work together or in absence of what made them work.

Take her ‘happy family’ brother, that was suppose to make us identify with her, but that actually made it worse, if she had a family almost like us, why did she turn out this way? Abusive Parents are cheap, but well, it would at least, explain so much, if Kate had parents that had literally sold her out.

Plus the sloth thing again, just ew.

It’s like my rule of sums regarding stupid/mean: You can be stupid and nice. You can be smart and mean. It’s nice if you were nice and smart. What’s not tolerable is stupid AND mean. It’s a matter of whether there is enough good stuff to redeem the bad stuff. Hell, attractive traits are a part of it. Sheldon Cooper is a jerk, but his cleaniness appeals to a LOT of a women tired of slob. There are characters who are killers but have huge followings because they are so gosh darn POLITE.

Kate has nothing.

I actually stopped watching the show because of her.

By: nicole

nicole — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:48:34 +0000

you sound bias to her ethnicity

By: nicole

nicole — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:47:38 +0000

you sound jealous and a liar. possibly even envious. all from your choice of words.

By: Georgia

Georgia — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:17:53 +0000

Kind…it’s hard to be kind. There is absolutely nothing redeeming or likable about Kate Freelander. Some people like her because she’s ‘sexy’, but um, while the actress is very very pretty and I’ll support her if she goes into modelling (she has the attitude, but not subtle enough for acting), Kate was canonly established as FLITHY. Everytime she swagger onto screen my mind started silently screaming “LICE AND CRABS! LICE AND CRABS!”

Like dude, remember the state of her room? She has been there for less than a week, she can’t even keep the place where she sleeps from being a major rat paradise, it’s not like she doesn’t have a trashcan, or just eat out if you are THAT lazy. I can’t believe that one season later, this pathetic waste of space is still here, and probably still wearing the same underwear from End of Nights.

By: Omar

Omar — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:44:41 +0000

I agree completely that freelander is a waste of space. Her character feels tacked on to every episode and for the most part the character is like the token black guy from the 90′s style writing. Basically most writers for these shows have lost any ability to truly write anything worth watching. Most of the choices are made to see what products they can sell and where they can open a new market.
I am also watching the show if I am home and nothing else is on. Hell I will even watch re-runs of other shows before I watch these. If the show makes it past a third season will be because the sales are up not because it is a good show.
For the most part if the writers become original again like they were in the beginning then the show would be worth watching. As for the big names like Tapping I would be willing to bet that if a show with better writing came up she would find a way to break her contract with what the show has become. If she doesn’t then she runs the risk of loosing any credibility as a decent actress.
From my friends I am the last one that even watches this show and with the way things are going I might not be before the third season is over.

By: stamatis

stamatis — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:31:51 +0000

the worst mistake ever, i am very disappoint with this…i really don’t have any mood to keep seeing this series… you destroy the hall magic this serie has..

By: Santana

Santana — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:35:13 +0000

I just started watching Sanctuary, as it just came on in Australia. I think killing Ashley off was stupid move, she’s much better then the idiot female in it now, she’s annoying. I haven’t decided if I’m going to keep watching or not, maybe I will watch it and see how I goes but I seriously doubt it will be very interesting without Ashley in it. Nice to see a blonde with *balls* and not the usual dumb blonde bimbo type.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:14:16 +0000

I think that the mother/daughter dynamic was an important one, and if she HAD to die it should have been on in further seasons. I hope that they bring her back, with a bit more depth. She got the short straw in the writing department.

By: Thea

Thea — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:30:28 +0000

It was a stupid mistake to remove her from the series, even if she comes back in the third season. Really we watch the show to see them pull out of mad situations and kicking some serious ass along the way – Ashley was a fresh breath of air, not being all so serious and grown-up all the time. I miss her and the relationship issues her, John and Hellen had.
Thought it would evolve into something..

And yeah.. I hate what they did to Stargate with the Universe crap. Syfy has it all wrong. To make series for the target group, listen to the target group!

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By: R. Kerber

R. Kerber — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:54:11 +0000

This actress has a natural character in which she can blend into any kind of scenerio. I'm sure she'll be offered bigger and better things and tough for Sanctuary. Too bad.

By: gabrielle46

gabrielle46 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:32:03 +0000

……BUT I LOVED ASHLEY AND WANT HER BAK!!!! She was an amazingly interesting character and actor. I loved the mother daughted fighting team/bond. She is kinda what kept me watching it- i related to her!! BRING ASHLEY BACK!!!!

By: gabrielle46

gabrielle46 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:30:05 +0000

….BUT I STILL WANT ASHLEY BACK!!! She was a gud actor and character to whom I enjoyed watching and related to. BRING HER BAK!

By: gabrielle46

gabrielle46 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:07:33 +0000

I am a new Fan of Santuary and LOVING IT!!! Though i enjoyed Ashley's Charachter i will still watch it 4 i enjoy all of the other characters also and the story lines and mischeif they all get themselves into. I also enjoy watching Will and Magnus' bond grow stonger as the eps continue.

By: gabrielle46

gabrielle46 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:32:03 +0000

By: gabrielle46

gabrielle46 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:30:05 +0000

….BUT I STILL WANT ASHLEY BACK!!! She was a gud actor and character to whom I enjoyed watching and related to. BRING HER BAK!

By: gabrielle46

gabrielle46 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:07:33 +0000

By: sherryjohnson

sherryjohnson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:15:16 +0000

Not interested in them bringing Ashley back. She was way over the top and it just seemed corny.

By: sandra

sandra — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:57:14 +0000

I know that , but they just can cancel the show nad waht? we don `t watch sanctuary anymore… is not that we want , so … they just renewed for a 3ª season because of ratings, they hit the roof on november or december i am not sure … but your point of view is right I agree, but with stop watching we just bring them a motive to cancel the show…

By: MDobbs

MDobbs — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:25:33 +0000

The large number of people that have stopped watching are the only voices the network actually listens to. They didn’t listen to the Sanctuary team when they forced Ashley off the show, and they haven’t listened to all the outrage fans (or former fans) on the internet. Ultimately only ratings matter to networks, so unless ratings go down they’ll just pretend that they made the right decisions.