The actor playing the kid in the first season was much more likeable. I don't know why they went with a new actor but he sure did nail being unlikable.
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The actor playing the kid in the first season was much more likeable. I don't know why they went with a new actor but he sure did nail being unlikable.
From what I understand they switched actors because they didn't feel the original kid had the range needed for the journey the character needed to go on (or some guff like that) If they're going with the story in the books this kinda makes sense, although Zak mk2 is just annoying (not the actors fault its the way the kid is written)
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Season three is upon us! Premiere is tonight Aug 28.
Nora died in the season 2 finale. So it's not surprising she didn't show up. So they got rid of that dead ferret wig off of Corey Stoll's head. That thing looked horrible.
He did? Wow. I don't even remember that.
I was wondering...did he shave his head for Ant Man? (i.e. was the head shaving in tandem with Ant Man filming?)
Solid start to season 3 for a show I laughed at at the start derisively, and if I do so now, it's out of delight.
I think his hair in the first season and beginning of the second was a wig. So Ant-Man was just him without the wig, and then he got rid of it on The Strain around that time too.
Corey Stoll is bald (or with very little hair, akin to the style of our fair Pattie Stew). The poor man was lumbered with a wig for the first season and a half as Carlton Cuse wanted Ephram to be able to change his appearance in later seasons, firstly as a disguise and secondly as a "character moment" when he shifts to a more warrior-like.
Hugo - some men just don't look right with hair
Hugo - some men just don't look right with hair
It felt more like the second or third episode in the season instead of a premiere. Very low key.
We learned a Big Thing: the Srigoi came from "an old world" to this "new world." Planet or other plane? But they're not native to our earth.
And also interesting was Quinlan referring to humans contemptuously as "cattle." Was that an act for the Ancients, or his real sentiment? The way he's been portrayed he'd be the kind of character to not give a rat's ass how he looks to anyone else and probably less to the Ancients than most, so I am thinking real sentiment.
Not crazy about what they are doing with Gus, but willing to give that some time before judging.
The scenes with Fet and the SEALS being hunted in the church tunnels got my pulse going so good on that!
For a drinker, Eph doesn't know his bottles very well. He pointed to a "fifth" when trading the asthma medicine, but Raoul passed him a pint of vodka. (A fifth is 750 mL--well it's a little more, but that's what they make now. But neither can be mistaken for a pint.)
And also interesting was Quinlan referring to humans contemptuously as "cattle." Was that an act for the Ancients, or his real sentiment? The way he's been portrayed he'd be the kind of character to not give a rat's ass how he looks to anyone else and probably less to the Ancients than most, so I am thinking real sentiment.
Not crazy about what they are doing with Gus, but willing to give that some time before judging.
The scenes with Fet and the SEALS being hunted in the church tunnels got my pulse going so good on that!
For a drinker, Eph doesn't know his bottles very well. He pointed to a "fifth" when trading the asthma medicine, but Raoul passed him a pint of vodka. (A fifth is 750 mL--well it's a little more, but that's what they make now. But neither can be mistaken for a pint.)
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Are you sure they weren't simply talking about North America, aka the New World? o.O I didn't get the impression that they were aliens.
On second thought I think you're right.
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