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Skriven 2006-06-26 16:26:00 av Robert E Starr JR (3348.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Babylon 5 revisited a
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>>On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:40:13 -0400, Rob Perkins wrote
(in article <4gareaF1lk3qvU1@individual.net>):

> Wendy of NJ wrote:
> 
>> Dr Pulaski (I know a lot of people didn't like her, but I did
>> especially since she wasn't "beautiful" and she also didn't like Data)
> 
> Brent Spiner should have more roles than he's offered. It's just that 
> simple. <<

That can be said about lots of fine actors who end up in science fiction (and 
get pigeonholed).  Andreas is a classic example.  And it's not like he wasn't 
_good_ before G'Kar; he was plenty good, but usually only got about five 
lines in his non-thug roles in which to exercise his considerable talent (and 
the thug roles were by and large fairly broad).  As an actor, he must have 
been incredibly grateful to JMS for the chance to show off his craft (albeit 
underneath the latex) with such a sublime role.

So yeah, look at all the talent who should have more roles than they're 
offered.  And look at what we get instead.

I'm pretty perturbed these days at TPTB over at The 4400 on this score, in 
fact.  They dumped Laura Allen (Lily) in favor of a younger, exotically 
attractive woman playing her unnaturally-aged daughter.  Now, Laura Allen is 
only 32 herself - and thin, blonde and cute!  imagine a sort of 
sharper-featured Kristen Bell - but she was a capable actress.  The girl who 
got a contract this season, and I'm pretty sure that Laura Allen was dumped 
as a consequence of that, is 23 years old and as awkward and green as they 
come.  It hurts to watch her.  And I don't really see how she's helped, as of 
yet.  The character has potential simply because of the nature of her 
existence, but the actress is a joke.  I hope they jettison her storyline 
_fast_ if she doesn't improve.

>> The actor who played Pulaski, Diana Muldaur, also guested in TOS at 
> least twice, and it cannot be said that she wasn't "beautiful" in those 
> eps. She even rated the 60's-era soft-focus closeups that Nichelle 
> Nichols got a lot of. 
>
> IMDB reports the ep names as "Is there in Truth No Beauty" and "Return 
> to Tomorrow."<<

Yeah, I loved both of those guest spots of hers.  Especially as Thalassa-Ann, 
with that great delivery of "I'd forgotten what it felt like even to 
breeeeeeathe again."  For me, that's as classic a Trek chick line as "You are 
not Morg; you are not Imorg" and "Brain, brain, what is brain?!"

Amy
                                     
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