Ever Notice how Janeway always....

[Dan_theNerd]

Has anyone else ever noticed how often Janeway pulls face at the close of an episode?

Like, every episode later in the series fades out with a close-up of Mulgrew's face. It's unique to Voyager, I cannot recall more than once or twice in any of the other series when this happens.

I just wanted to get everyone else's opinions and thoughts on this practice of concentrating on Mulgrew's facial expressions at the end of an episode.

 

[Kilana2]

I'm anxiously awaiting hux' opinion (lol).

Never gave it any thought. Now that you mention it, it makes me re-watch the whole show.

 

[TheGoodStuff]

I love Janeways expressions.

Part of the reason I think she is so great is Janeway & Mulgrew share a sort of dry, sardonic humour style which appeals to me very much.

I'm a little surprised though that you feel nothing like that happens in other series. Multiple episodes of TOS end with close-ups of Kirk laughing away or pulling amused faces.

To me, Janeways expressions do a great deal to convey the warmth of the character. She is far more...approachable...than Picard for example.

 

[Lynx]

I rewatched "Caretaker" today. Amazing episode.
I did it before reading this post so I'm not sure if I noticed Janeway's facial expression when she said "set a course-for home". I guess I have to watch it again.

 

[hux]

Never noticed her face being the last thing we see in an episode except in "The Thaw." I'm gonna need examples/reminders. It doesn't stand out as something that was as prominent as you suggest. A lot of TOS and TNG ended with... set a course for blah blah five.

Mulgrew certainly has a tendency to over-egg her face pudding and squeeze out some unnecessary gurning in liueu of acting. I'm thinking specifically of the petulant look she gives Chakotay when he stops her from turning Lessing into an alien canapé. Then the scene in "Shattered" when she doesn't buy future Chakotay's story. Likewise in "Relativity" with Seven.

Mulgrew's acting could occasionally veer off into dick dastardly territory but that's a different discussion for a different time.

 

[Catarina]

I'm anxiously awaiting hux' opinion (lol).

ahaha haha


I noticed. She also has that drama cut to commercial face. (a few of them do)

I even have lots of screenshots of her different funny still shots debating if that will be a contest thread.

 

[shapeshifter]

She is thinking...

I win. I always win. Is there no one in this universe to even challenge me?!

 

[Drone]

I'm not sure I have a firm take on the numbers we're talking about here. But I certainly can think of two episodes where my perception was that there was a lot of ferment going on as we saw her visage as she walked out of the frame of the final shot. I hope not to start up another harangue about it, but to me the expression she carried as she left sickbay at the end of Tuvix, was not one of a merciless executioner, but rather a death mask of her own signifying in a compelling way that what she was just compelled to do, saw a part of her die as well. In Sacred Ground, as the Doctor is explaining the revival process, only Kes is really there, processing what he's saying. Janeway is clearly deep in a reverie of what the meaning of the entire experience she has just gone through signifies and perhaps, how it has presented a framework through which she might now reevaluate her former opinions of all things spiritual. Indeed, her vacant response to the Doctor after he finishes babbling, seems to take both him and Kes aback. Two very effecting examples, I think, of what the OP has introduced.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I'm anxiously awaiting hux' opinion (lol).

Never gave it any thought. Now that you mention it, it makes me re-watch the whole show.

Me too. Never noticed. It might give a new perspective to the show.

 

[James T Kirk]

Shes the definition of a plain jane imo

 

[STEPhon IT]

She's the star of the series, and the producers wanted to give her as much face time as they can. I wish Sisko had that kind of love on Deep Space Nine. It wouldn't been bad to have a handsome, brown face man appear at the end of most episodes, but the show had too many marbles in the box to cater to.