Was Vex the prince in Bo's trip down Dyson's memory lane?
I did think he looked a bit familiar, but I have trouble recognizing faces when their hairstyles and contexts are radically altered. I never would've recognized "Angel" as Ksenia Solo if not for her voice. I'm much better at voices than faces.
Ah, okay, I checked IMDb, and it lists Paul Amos as "Vex/Prince Felipe III." I didn't even know that the actor who played Vex was named Paul Amos. I don't keep track of the supporting cast that well -- I don't think they usually show most of their names in the Act One credits anyway.
Although Zoie Palmer was quite easy to recognize as Flora. And I really liked her performance. She did a good job creating a very different, livelier character than Lauren. She's a better actress than I realized. Although she's terrible at lip-synching to a song -- I think that was her actual voice, recorded separately, but she just mouthed along with it, not giving any semblance of breathing deeply or projecting or putting any feeling into it.
What I wish they'd done was to save Trick's appearance until after we'd seen some of the familiar cast members playing different roles. That way it would've been more of a fakeout -- we were expecting someone else who just looked like Trick, but surprise! It really is Trick! Actually it did work that way, because Cassie had told Bo that she'd see familiar faces in new roles, but it would've been even more effective if we'd seen some legitimate examples
before the fakeout with Trick.
I was unclear on why Bo needed to go into Dyson's memories at all, given that he was just able to tell Kenzi what happened. But there was that line at the end about Dyson having forgotten this until Bo refreshed his memory. That doesn't make it less confusing, though. Why couldn't he remember?
Still, while I'm not a fan of the "virtual/dream landscape based on familiar sets and cast members" trope, at least this time they came up with a somewhat credible excuse for it, that Bo's and Dyson's memories were blending. And really, most of the time I barely even noticed that they were using the standard sets.
