Forgotten great Sci Fi tv characters.
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One of my all time favorite films. Bruce Dern's performance as Lowell is fantastic. Don't see it working with any other actor.
Which then makes me want to shout out Kate Lockley from Angel. I loved the way that she brought an outside human perspective to all of the supernatural goings on. Shame that we didn't see her again after Angel stopped her from committing suicide in Season 2. (The actress moved to NY to become ADA Serena Southerlyn on Law & Order.) IIRC, Holtz's minion Justine in Season 3 was originally supposed to be Kate.
Technically fantasy not sci-fi, but I agree he was one of the best things about the show. The cast in general was overall very good. It was a fun if often eye-roll inducing show.
Oh...awful. But the next summer every kid I knew tried to swim him.
I am going with Professor Arturo on Sliders as well. I loved that character.
It's also a show that just recently ended but I feel like people have forgotten how great all of Tatiana Maslany's characters were on that show.
Also Zoidberg on Futurama who I think was my favorite or least second fav to Bender. Everyone remembers Bender and even Fry but I feel Zoidberg has been kind of forgotten.
Jason
It's also a show that just recently ended but I feel like people have forgotten how great all of Tatiana Maslany's characters were on that show.
Also Zoidberg on Futurama who I think was my favorite or least second fav to Bender. Everyone remembers Bender and even Fry but I feel Zoidberg has been kind of forgotten.
Jason
I'm not sure how Forgotten he is, but Seth Green's character from Buffy. I thought his relationship with Willow was very nice and it was sad that they broke up. I wish the show had done a better job remembering it the more they got into the storyline with her and Tara.
As i recall the actor was severly allergic to the face prosthetics and makeup (like scratch your face off after a few minutes) and had to leave. Why the role was not recast i don't know as he was quite an interesting character.
As to the topic does Firefly count? I don't think such a fan favorite is forgotten by fans but maybe it is entering that age - the entire cast top to bottom needs to be mentioned there.
Why not Zoidberg?
I love him! Just finished a full rewatch of Futurama, and I love how he got such a happy ending in the second to last episode, he deserved it!
Right! Without him we may never have gotten "Joel Robinson" and his robot pals helping to maintain his sanity.
Varian from The Fantastic Journey was way cool. Even had his own sonic screwdriver...er...tuning fork...
I've only seen the first 2 seasons of Orphan Black so far but I absolutely love that show. Actually, my favorite character on it is Donnie. There's some adorable dark humor in his relationship with Alison.
I really enjoyed Oz's deadpan humor and I wish that he'd stuck around, or at least come back for more guest appearances. We never saw him again after Season 4.
It would have helped if Tara weren't such a boring character.I'm guessing that he wasn't recast because the decided that it was too expensive to have a character with such heavy make-up on the show. You also saw this on Earth: Final Conflict, where the alien characters would just be no-shows for certain episodes.
Interviewed Tracy Scoggins in 99, and her big regret was that Brimstone ended before she could do an episode.
Oh, I got it. I'm surprised I got it, it's been decades since I even thought of that show. Funny what gets burned/buried in one's brain.
I really enjoyed Oz's deadpan humor and I wish that he'd stuck around, or at least come back for more guest appearances. We never saw him again after Season 4.
I liked Tara, but I thought her best scene was one of the episodes in Season 6 where she and Buffy were just talking. She was great at the friend role.
The problem with Tara was that they wanted to make Willow, the meekest character on the show, be the dominant one in the relationship. So that meant creating a character with so little personality that she barely registered most of the time. Even Riley contributed to the group dynamic by being aggressively bland. Tara was just watered down Willow. She did have her moments when they tried to develop more of her interactions with the other characters. There just wasn't enough of that.
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