Did Brooks' eccentric acting put people off?

[Deckerd]

I liked Avery Brooks, although it took me a while to get used to him. He did get a bit histrionic at times but that added to the originality of the character.

The singing in that holo episode was embarrassing though.

 

[ScatmanRescueMe]

Both brooks and Shatner, I think are/were good actors, but both it seems could go off the rails once in a while when they would get hysterical. A guest actor or one-shot actor could be simply be pulled aside and advised by the director to turn it down a notch.

But with the series lead, you are stuck with that problem.

 

[Krieg1981]

I thought Avery Brooks acting was fantastic! I loved DS9 the first time I saw it. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, though. If you don't like.....you don't like!

 

[Liselle]

I think for me, it was just a case of getting used to him. I came to DS9 last. Having watched Next Gen and Voyager when they were originally shown, I only watched the DS9 series in the last 6 months. I remember watching the odd episode 12 years or so ago, and I remember thinking Sisko was just too strange to watch...constantly over acting and with a rather odd manner about him.

Having watched the whole run though recently, I now know I was wrong not to have persevered with it as it's by far and away the best, and there's so much more in favour of Sisko than against him.

 

[smeos]

I must say that I'm surprised by this topic at all, and even more so when people say that they didn't like him yelling.

For me, anyways, that was the best part of the character, and Sisko just looks scary when he does it.

His blow up at Nechayev in "The Search, pt. 2", although not real, was a long time coming. I wish Picard had that much balls.

 

[indranee]

The Sisko had more balls than the 403 people on Enterprise D.

 

[Michael]

^ More like 1014.

 

[smeos]

I would have loved to have seen Troi's balls.

 

[flandry84]

Maybe I'm wronging the man,but to me Brooks always seemed embarrassed to be on an "outer space show".
Sisko was my least favourite ST captain,but can you imagine Picard immersed in all that Bajoran politics.~shudder~

 

[Iamnotspock]

One of my favorite low-key Sisko moments came in the S4 premeire, The Way Of The Warrior...

After arranging to meet up with a Cardassian Ambassador ship captained by Gul Dukat, Sisko and the Defiant travel out into free space to find that the ship was under attack by Federation allies, The Klingons. The Klingons, who where betting that the Federation would not want to risk rekindling Federation/Klingon hostilities, decided that they would brazenly invade Cardassia to search for shapeshifting founders. In the heat of the moment, the defiant crew are relaying data to the captain in order for him to make an informed decision... back down and allow the Klingons to continue to kill the Cardassian rulers or engage the Klingons and potentially throw the Federation under the bus...

Sisko takes a breif moment and goes over all the details in his head.. opens his eyes and calmly says "Drop the cloak. Raise sheilds. Arm Quantum topedos." He had made a decision and closed the door behind himself.

It was, IMHO, one of the most superbly acted scense in all of Trek. He communicated so much without one word being uttered. You have to see it to understand what I'm talking about.

I watched that one only last night, oddly enough. Another great moment is Sisko's speach to Worf at the end, when he convinces him not to resign his commission. His heartfelt, "running may help for a while, but sooner or later the pain catches up with you..." is very nicely understated.

 

[Colonel Green]

It was the AWFUL writing of the first season that put me off, not Brooks.

It wasn't until much later that I got back into DS9 again.

 

[Mr. Fergy]

I love Avery Brooks. I loved him off the bat, and Sisko is one of my favorite characters in all of Star Trek.

Agreed.

BTW; Gang it's not Avery's fault that the writers didn't get him at first, but the did come around, eventually.

 

[Luke Lightsaber]

I saw it!! IT WAS REALLL!!!! I imagined it!!!!!!!

 

[SlyCardie]

I think quirks make for better characters... why should all actors try to act or react the same way? I can see how that would annoy some, but I appreciated his acting, and his voice was great too (not Patrick Stewart great, but close).

 

[Luke Lightsaber]

Avery Brooks was great. His relationship with his son was one of the best DS9 stories.

 

[Michael]

Avery Brooks was great. His relationship with his son was one of the best DS9 stories.

Avery Brooks' son was on DS9?!

 

[indranee]

^ well, Cirroc is kinda almost LIKE his son.

 

[Mr. Fergy]

^Agreed.

 

[RoJoHen]

I saw it!! IT WAS REALLL!!!! I imagined it!!!!!!!

Yeah, Brooks was obnoxious.

He would be great on stage if you were sitting far away, but you don't really need that kind of acting when you have a camera in your face.

 

[crmfghtr]

Agree with previous poster, was not Brooks acting that put me off but just did not like first or second season much. Wasn't till the third that I was highly impressed, and I think Avery was better the Patrick, and on a par with Shatner.