...Best Damn Tapper! *Most Smartest*

Title: Focusing
Author: Janine
Fandom: Sanctuary
Pairing: Ashley/Helen
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Incest
Disclaimer: I don’t own them.
Prompt: Helen/Ashley - incest (obviously), leather and knife play
Meme: The Third Annual Femslash Kink Meme  

( Helen was always able to focus better after a vigorous work-out ... )

So, I don't watch Sanctuary regularly but back in September I posted about Amanda Tapping saying that in the second half of season three there was going to be an amazing female guest star on the show for several episodes who goes toe to toe with Magnus, and that in reading the scenes Tapping thought that there was some romantic or at least sexual tension between the characters that she thought would be wonderful to explore.

I've just seen the second-half of the two-parter and it was glorious.  I totally understand what Tapping was talking about now that I've seen Pax Romana.

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It was so wonderful getting to see two intelligent, forceful, confident, mature women interacting with each other as equals, and it was even better seeing the genuine respect for each other that grew between them through their interactions throughout the episode.  As they grew to trust each other, and especially by the end of the episode, I could definitely see the romantic potential/sexual chemistry between Helen and Ranna that Tappings was talking about.

( Polly Walker gushing behind the cut ... )

In conclusion, Hollywood needs to let mature actresses be on screen together in meaningful ways more often, and while I still don't love Sanctuary as a whole, I'll be watching all of the Ranna Seneschal episodes, that's for sure!

Thanks to murasaki200 I just watched the trailer for a new scifi show called Sancturary and ... geekgasm!

Sanctuary is an upcoming Science fiction television program to be aired on the Internet, with a scheduled premiere date of May 2007. The program stars Amanda Tapping and a bunch of other people I've never heard of and nobody would really pay attention to anyway after reading "Amanada Tapping" so I won't waste your time.

Plot summary: Amanda Tapping stars as 157 year old Dr. Helen Magnus, one of the first female doctors in the Royal College during Victorian England. She was engaged to Jack the Ripper, and also has a daughter by him, Ashley. However, Ashley does not yet know that Jack is her father. Dr. Magnus' father started a sanctuary for supernatural creatures, collected from all over the world. In her work with these creatures, Dr. Magnus has received age longevity. The show is said to have a feel similar to Batman Begins.

The show also stars a whole bunch of Vancouver!Actors which makes my geeky heart abound with joy.

( Trailer behind the cut )

Also Amanda Tapping is totally hot as a brunette. That is all.