Not till we see a recast of Ten Forward waiter #5
Brian Brophy didn’t return?
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Ian McDiarmid taking over from Clive Revill? I'm out. No more Star Wars movies for me. That is just wrong.
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But is there really a whole lot of "outrage"--or just a few grumbles on the internet? In the long term, this will have no lasting impact whatsoever and, at best, become something to look back on and laugh.
"Hey, remember when we spent days arguing about recasting 'Bruce Maddox' of all characters? What were we thinking?"
Maybe I'm just unlucky and happened to be on 3 different sites talking about the same thing...But is there really a whole lot of "outrage"--or just a few grumbles on the internet? In the long term, this will be have no lasting impact whatsoever and, at best, become something to look back on and laugh.
"Hey, remember when we spent days arguing about recasting 'Bruce Maddox' of all characters? What were we thinking?"
I am surprised you didn’t do it when Mark Lenard wasn’t used as Sarek.
and your cancellation spared you the anger over Leonard Nimoy not playing Spock.
How am I being petty? I just don't care that a one off character was re-cast. It's happened in trek before, 3 times in DS9 for example. And I didn't find Brophy's performance in The Measure of a Man memorable and considering his last tv role was in 2011 as a background character, i'm not convinced much would change in terms of his portrayal of Maddox. That is a personal opinion, if you want to get bent out of shape over it, that is your prerogative.
Just so you are aware, I first posted this picture around here well over a month ago, before the first episode even aired and heavily speculated that it was going to be Maddox...
The Pike situation was my fourth time. Believe me, I was not thrilled that Jane Wyatt wasn't there either.
Because...
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Brophymania.
Nope. Then people would be outraged that they didn't use Maddox, and debating why they didn't...
"Well maybe..."
[Looks up name of actor who played Maddox.]
"...Brian Brophy wasn't available."
The punctuation in the thread title alone fairly screams it.
But it won't be any where near as fun as the SOMBRERO Thread was.But is there really a whole lot of "outrage"--or just a few grumbles on the internet? In the long term, this will have no lasting impact whatsoever and, at best, become something to look back on and laugh.
"Hey, remember when we spent days arguing about recasting 'Bruce Maddox' of all characters? What were we thinking?"
Maddox didn't drink tranya in TNG.
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Because in the alternate universe where Brophy played the part, you would have somehow gone, "Nah, I'm good." Huh? If it doesn't matter to you who plays the part, but it does to lots of others, why not kill two birds with one stone and Brophy play the part?
As mentioned multiple times above, it was eye-rolling then and also one that's been talked about time and again. Hell, why not recast Sisko every fourth episode? It's just a TV show. Doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this world. Get over it, nerd.
I wouldn't care if anything changed in the portrayal of Maddox (although, if his original dickish Maddox also managed to be sympathetic, maybe that'd have created a more complex character?), but it would have been nice to come from the same face, voice, and mannerisms we know as the character. And kinda cool to see a face we haven't in so many years, and maybe to see a non-current actor pull it off.
That could have been anyone? Like, honestly, if Jurati pulled up Maddox's personnel file while she was doing the exposition for Picard in the pilot, there would have been way less expectation.Just so you are aware, I first posted this picture around here well over a month ago, before the first episode even aired and heavily speculated that it was going to be Maddox...
Some people would be...mildly?...nearly imperceptibly?...dissapointed, but Maddox could have been just another scientist who tried and failed to duplicate Data thirty-five years ago. That dick, wanting to take Data apart prematurely... This series raised him, above the thousands of other cyberneticists in the galaxy, to have succeeded now. Well, shucks, okay; let's see him.
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I'd prefer a flashback to a hospital room with a guy wrapped up in bandages. Head to foot. Then I would be at peace.
No. It must be a voice-over of, "The part of Bruce Maddox will now be played by..."
Yes. I forgot that part.
Actor doesn't equal the character.
That much is obvious. Though, don't tell the Shatner lovers.
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