Yeah, when I finished watching the documentary I kept thinking: "What the hell is wrong with Avery Brooks?"
He really got weird. Kinda spoilt the film too.
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He really got weird. Kinda spoilt the film too.
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Is Avery Brooks a little out there?
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doubleohfive
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Hardly. After a time, it was hilarious seeing him with Shatner on screen.
If he's like this all the time, I would absolutely love to take one of his classes.
If he's like this all the time, I would absolutely love to take one of his classes.
I think Shatner described him as a little out there at the Vegas convention in 2010. He definitely is a little, but in a good way. I remember meeting him, and he seemed like has was having a blast meeting all the fans and everything. I think he's just very passionate about life.
Thank you very much for pointing me towards this interview.
It's always fascinating to see such things years after the fact.
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I was at his appearence here in San Diego at Comic-con, with Shatner and Bakula, and I thought out of all of them, Avery was the most interesting. Nothing against Shatner and Bakula but I had never seen Avery in real life before and it appeared that most of us hadn't. He was kind of out there but contrasted with Bakula's warm charm, and Shatner's Shatnerisms, Brooks was just different but I thought he got the best response at the end. IMO of course.
The wife and I did a photo op with him and Cirroc Lofton at DragonCon a couple of years ago and he was super nice. He put his hand on my shoulder before the photo op even started and shook my hand and we were telling both of them how much we loved them in DS9. Avery Brooks smiled and was very modest and polite about us adoring him. He is definitely the epitome of cool. We saw him checking into the hotel the first day of the con and I have to say he is the only person I've ever seen in my life to look bad-ass while checking into a hotel. While the lady behind the desk was working the computer he was leaning with his elbow on the counter all stoic looking with his shades ON inside the hotel....looked f'n badass. If it were anybody else I would call them a dork or something for having their shades on....not him. Plus he looked like he would kick your ass. His personality isn't anything like that though and I love that about him. He might be a bit eccentric but thats what makes him so damn cool.
Challenging your perception of reality is what a good college professor SHOULD do.
I was watching the trailer and some clips of The Captains and yeah Avery Brooks did sound odd. It was almost kind of hippie-ish, whereas in the show and interviews for the show he was calm and cool. It was a bit strange.
Here's a good example of Avery being badass: Brooks, 70's style
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... you mean "Here's a good example of Avery in his next role as the 12th Doctor Who..."
That's awesome. I'm not one to get all fannish, but I'd love to meet any Trek folk; especially the DS9 cast.
Shit I'd watch the show if that happened!
Hollywood is full of dull and vacuous people. Brooks has always been a welcome alternative.
Fair enough, basically I was trying to say that if I had Brooks for a class, and he taught in a manner of style similar to how he came off in the "The Captains" Documentary, it would get irritating very quickly.
I agree. As a college professor, I'd say that the job of the professor is to teach the course material, not obfuscate it.
There's a temptation to do that, since the course material seems pretty boring when you've taught it a few times. But you need to remember that it's new to the students, and they're paying you to teach it to them.
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I enjoyed The Captains, and Brooks' interview was a lot of fun. He is particularly gifted in music, but it was his style that I enjoyed the most. Was he "out there"? Yes. Definitely. He was out there. He was receiving signals from Alpha Centauri on his cell phone. Is that bad? Not at all. He was engaging in free thought and free association, and as someone who does that a lot, it was a welcoming experience to see Brooks doing the same.
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