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Of course it is your opinion. It was also a suprising opinion. Hence my comment.
Aside from Stewart, what actor/actress killed it in S1?
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Of course it is your opinion. It was also a suprising opinion. Hence my comment.
What is surprising about it?
Seven's scenes are the best in any Trek.
Other than Patrick Stewart, who was his usual ‘not too much, not to little,’ self, I don't think anyone really “killed it.” Everyone was competent but I don’t think anyone really stood out.
Jeri Ryan, who I think has been one of the best actors in the franchise, just didn’t have enough screen time, though she made the best of what she was given.
To my surprise, I didn’t hate Riker and usually do. I thought the character was well written and Jonathan Frakes, who I always find as forgettable an actor as there is in the franchise, handled it better than usual.
Although I was unfamiliar with Santiago Cabrera, I gather that a lot of people know him and respect his acting. I actually thought his holo characters stood out more than his Rios did.
Allison Peel was closest to a stand out performance. I think she will hit it out of the park next season, assuming she’s back for season 2.
Jeri Ryan, who I think has been one of the best actors in the franchise, just didn’t have enough screen time, though she made the best of what she was given.
To my surprise, I didn’t hate Riker and usually do. I thought the character was well written and Jonathan Frakes, who I always find as forgettable an actor as there is in the franchise, handled it better than usual.
Although I was unfamiliar with Santiago Cabrera, I gather that a lot of people know him and respect his acting. I actually thought his holo characters stood out more than his Rios did.
Allison Peel was closest to a stand out performance. I think she will hit it out of the park next season, assuming she’s back for season 2.
(Also, the whole "look it up yourself" thing is bullshit. You're the one making the claim, so you're the one who has to provide the evidence.)
Isa Briones as Dahj is my favorite non-Stewart performance.
Provide evidence of what?
(Also, the whole "look it up yourself" thing is bullshit. You're the one making the claim, so you're the one who has to provide the evidence.)
Talented young woman. She was in the touring company of Hamilton before getting PIC, so that means she is a dancer and a singer: and maybe a rapper.
OMG, that’s where I’ve seen her. I knew she looked familiar, but I just gave up trying to remember. Yeah, her part in Pilgrim wasn’t that big but she did a great job with what she got. Thanks.
Definitely a singer. That was her singing Blue Skies in the season finale.
Sutra actually expresses the actress' talent really well, because the moment I saw her from behind I knew she was a total creep. Didn't even need to see her from the front, but that made it even more obvious. But, she should not have been such an obvious creep from the get go, and that is definitely on the director for not realizing she needed to go through a personality change post Admonition to justify her creepy murder personality. That would have foiled the notion that she is Lore's daughter.
Narek was wasted for most of the series, and only when he gets his black sheep characterization at the very end does he fully shine as an actor. Earlier, his acting is pretty weak except when rejecting the advances of his sister the second time, specifically. The weak acting makes his romancing Soji non-credible. On the other hand, his falling for Soji is somehow acted by him as being highly credible and subtle. So maybe it's Soji's acting which is weak there in regard to her falling for him, but I think that comes down to how artificial and rushed the whole relationship is initially.
Rios gives the strongest performance and displays the widest range of talent. It was hard for me to tell he was acting multiple parts his first episode, and he nails all of them. He makes for the funniest scenes in the whole show, short of Evil Very French Picard's first scene.
Elnor's actor is spot on in expressing a believable and endearing mix of traits, and probably the most consistent in performance. It's a shame his character could be written out of each episode so easily, and that comes down to the writers not the actor.
It was great seeing Troi, that was really the surprise performance of the whole series.
Oh yeah, Admiral Shut Up Fucking Hubris.
Narek was wasted for most of the series, and only when he gets his black sheep characterization at the very end does he fully shine as an actor. Earlier, his acting is pretty weak except when rejecting the advances of his sister the second time, specifically. The weak acting makes his romancing Soji non-credible. On the other hand, his falling for Soji is somehow acted by him as being highly credible and subtle. So maybe it's Soji's acting which is weak there in regard to her falling for him, but I think that comes down to how artificial and rushed the whole relationship is initially.
Rios gives the strongest performance and displays the widest range of talent. It was hard for me to tell he was acting multiple parts his first episode, and he nails all of them. He makes for the funniest scenes in the whole show, short of Evil Very French Picard's first scene.
Elnor's actor is spot on in expressing a believable and endearing mix of traits, and probably the most consistent in performance. It's a shame his character could be written out of each episode so easily, and that comes down to the writers not the actor.
It was great seeing Troi, that was really the surprise performance of the whole series.
Oh yeah, Admiral Shut Up Fucking Hubris.
I must say that I find the idea of "great actor" in this context or "killing it" to be strange; there is a bar to reach: being able to portray all emotions without the audience realizing that the actor is acting, beyond that, one can't really improve, which is a bar pretty much any professional actor can obviously reach.
I have never seen an actor that "impressed" me more than any other, only rarely some where one can obviously see that they are acting.
I suppose a higher bar would be breadth, when an actor has multiple, very different roles, but one can't tell that very often from a single series, except of course Tatiana Maslany venerable performance in Orphan Black, playing many different roles that indeed all genuinely feel like completely different people with different body language, facial expressions, and speech patterns.
But safe from that, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to be impressed with any of the actors? They're all actors that pass the bar of being able to act in a way that makes me forget they are actors portraying a character, there is not much to go higher than that.
I have never seen an actor that "impressed" me more than any other, only rarely some where one can obviously see that they are acting.
I suppose a higher bar would be breadth, when an actor has multiple, very different roles, but one can't tell that very often from a single series, except of course Tatiana Maslany venerable performance in Orphan Black, playing many different roles that indeed all genuinely feel like completely different people with different body language, facial expressions, and speech patterns.
But safe from that, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to be impressed with any of the actors? They're all actors that pass the bar of being able to act in a way that makes me forget they are actors portraying a character, there is not much to go higher than that.
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