There really should be an express bus to Sooke that would also double as a express version of the 50. It could stop at the Legislature, Bay Centre, Bay/Hillside, Mayfair, Uptown, Tillicum, Helmcken, Six Mile, Colwood Exchange, Veterans Memorial, Langford Exchange, Jacklin & Jenkins, Jacklin & Sooke, Sooke & Happy Valley, then straight to Sooke (or maybe a stop or two in between).
I often visit my dad in the Happy Valley area by bus from downtown and the whole Langford Exchange loop when the 50 becomes the 61 adds about 5 minutes to the whole trip and feels so unnecessarily convoluted. An express bus could just go down Peatt, along Station then straight onto Jacklin. There's also a ton of housing that's been built along the 61 route through Langford (Belmont residences, the church building across the street, the affordable housing project at Happy Valley & Sooke, etc.), not to mention all of the development in Sooke itself. It's crazy that there's such a low frequency of transit service along the route.