Summer Glau Joins The Cape...

[StarshipDefiant]

To give credence, (maybe the wrong word to use here) Bennett really only became 'crazy' when she encountered Echo; who was essentially the same person she perceived to have betrayed her and left her for dead in the hands of the enemy (The person being Caroline), this is noticable in her dire warning to Grace that she'd be smart to not attract the attention of Rossum executives. When she encountered Topher, she went all girl shy, fumbling through her words as she nerviously tried to appeal to someone whom she had great respect for (she did, after all know who he was before even meeting him, able to even recognize his work at first glance), and when she was kidnapped by the L.A. Dollhouse, and forced into a confrontation wherein she was a captive, dealt with particularly ignorant peers in school, she showed that despite looks to the contrary, she actually was not easily intemidated.

In short, despite any similarities that may or may not be there, I don't see it as a type cast, or a copy, whatever of Cameron or River (and lets face it, the other terminators were pretty weird to).

Anyway, I hope something becomes of this, the premise sounds interesting and I've come to like her acting, so we shall see.

 

[Nardpuncher]

Robotically crazy, then - as opposed to, say, Christopher-Lloyd-as-Doc Brown crazy or Ming the Merceless over-the-top crazy. There's a lot of varieties of crazy, but she's been cast in only a narrow range of that type. River was a "robot role" as far as I'm concerned. Ditto for The 4400, ditto for Dollhouse, and I haven't seen the other stuff.

I just have no idea what you're talking about here. All those characters were distinct, and I have no comprehension of how you're defining the word "robot" in this context, because the connotations I'm familiar with couldn't even remotely be applied to characters like Tess and Bennett, and rarely to River.

And my point was not that she lacks range. Just the opposite - she hasn't had the opportunity to show all that much range, given the typecasting she's suffered. Enough with the fragile, emotionally stifled girl-child bullshit.

There was nothing fragile about Cameron. She was a hardcore killing machine, ruthless, calculating, cunning, manipulative, and far less naive than she initially appeared. And there was nothing emotionally stifled about River or Tess, especially River, who was generally quite uncensored in her emotional expression. Bennett, meanwhile, was flamboyantly neurotic, more in the "Doc Brown" direction you allude to, except when Topher showed up, when she turned into a completely different person. That's not a lack of range. She's shown plenty of range and has been far less typecast than a lot of other actors.

But how accurate is your opinion to 3 decimal points?

 

[T J]

 

[Vendikarr]

And Summer grabs onto the coattails of yet another show...

So you don't think she should be working?

 

[Nardpuncher]

And Summer grabs onto the coattails of yet another show...

So you don't think she should be working?

Well, if you're going to ask...I'll say no.

I never liked her. She looks scary. This is a fact to 3 decimal places.

 

[Snaploud]

Don't mess with Summer Glau. She has robot minions.

 

[Nardpuncher]

^^^ Well it does seem that she's becoming prettier to me as she gets a bit older. I mean she looked like a kid in Firefly.

 

[Sci]

This is odd.

I remember watching, about 15 years ago, a show on NBC called The Cape and staring one of the actors who was a main character on Firefly.

That was the one about astronaut trainees at the Kennedy Space Center, right? Maybe it was carried on your local NBC affiliate, but it wasn't an NBC network show, it was first-run syndicated.

Jesus Christ in a chicken basket you have the insane ability to find a flaw in any post imaginable don't you?
This thread is about 15 posts and you've corrected three people already.
It's really not necessary. Just let some stuff go, OK?

Dude, who gives a shit? He was providing information, not personally insulting someone, and he wasn't being rude about it.

If you don't like the idea of someone correcting, in a very casual manner, a minor mistake, get the fuck over it.

<SNIP>

This guy's gotta have me on his ignore list.

Or he doesn't respond to personal attacks made for no good reason.

 

[RoJoHen]

^^^ Well it does seem that she's becoming prettier to me as she gets a bit older. I mean she looked like a kid in Firefly.

Well, she was playing a 16-year old.

 

[Nardpuncher]

That was the one about astronaut trainees at the Kennedy Space Center, right? Maybe it was carried on your local NBC affiliate, but it wasn't an NBC network show, it was first-run syndicated.

Jesus Christ in a chicken basket you have the insane ability to find a flaw in any post imaginable don't you?
This thread is about 15 posts and you've corrected three people already.
It's really not necessary. Just let some stuff go, OK?

Dude, who gives a shit? He was providing information, not personally insulting someone, and he wasn't being rude about it.

If you don't like the idea of someone correcting, in a very casual manner, a minor mistake, get the fuck over it.

<SNIP>

This guy's gotta have me on his ignore list.

Or he doesn't respond to personal attacks made for no good reason.

How come every time I go nuts on Christopher you're never far behind?
You'll notice that he's never correcting or amending or contradicting me...it's always someone else.
I jump in to defend them and you jump in to defend him. We've been at this before.
If you don't like me coming in and saying what I say, you may also "get over it".
See? Isn't that phrase so annoying? ( Even without the cursing!)

 

[OmahaStar]

Dude, who gives a shit? He was providing information, not personally insulting someone, and he wasn't being rude about it.

With that person's posts, it's rather difficult to tell where the line is between rudeness and condescension.

Or he doesn't respond to personal attacks made for no good reason.

To be fair, the posts which come from that poster typically are personal attacks. But because the person behind the posts has been published, it somehow means he can get away with it. *shrug* But since we talk about the posts, not the poster ... the posts come across as arrogant, rude, holier-than-thou, and condescending. Nothing new.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

I hope she drinks, swears and sleeps around. A lot.

I am definitely all for that! Fuckitty, fuck-fuck!

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I love her, but she has this bad coincidence of being on shows that get canceled

So do a lot of actors, since most shows get cancelled in the first year or two.

If anything, I'd say it is to her credit that she keeps getting cast.

 

[Professor Zoom]

She bores me to death, so...It doesn't really make me want to watch The Cape. But then, I didn't like the idea anyway, so..

A big MEH.

 

[Sci]

How come every time I go nuts on Christopher you're never far behind?
You'll notice that he's never correcting or amending or contradicting me...it's always someone else.
I jump in to defend them and you jump in to defend him. We've been at this before.

I wouldn't know, because the God's-honest truth is that I don't remember this happening before. Apparently I just didn't consider it important enough to remember.

If you don't like me coming in and saying what I say, you may also "get over it".
See? Isn't that phrase so annoying?

Not really; I don't particularly care enough for it to be annoying, especially since I'm not the one engaging in ad hominem attacks for no reason.

Dude, who gives a shit? He was providing information, not personally insulting someone, and he wasn't being rude about it.

With that person's posts, it's rather difficult to tell where the line is between rudeness and condescension.

I don't think it is at all. He was providing a minor piece of information about something that corrected a minor mistake, and nobody made a big deal out if it before Nardpuncher.

Or he doesn't respond to personal attacks made for no good reason.

To be fair, the posts which come from that poster typically are personal attacks.

I've been in plenty of arguments, sometimes quite heated, with Christopher over the years. Sometimes I think he's completely full of shit (as I'm sure he's thought the same of me).

But I have never seen him construct an ad hominem attack. I've seen him say, "You're not making sense" in various levels of frustration, and that's as far as that's gone.

the posts come across as arrogant, rude, holier-than-thou, and condescending. Nothing new.

If someone feels that insulted from a post correcting a minor error -- and, really, even that's spinning it; if I thought that I'd seen a TV show years and years ago on one network and someone else said, no, that was actually syndicated, I'd just consider that someone else helping to clarify my memory moreso than correcting an error...

Anyway, if someone feels that insulted from a post correcting such a minor error, and doing so in such an impersonal way, then I'd say that says more about that someone's insecurities than it does about the person correcting the minor error.

And, of course, IndyJones has not actually indicated that he felt insulted, so the idea of getting up in arms over Christopher having somehow insulting him seems premature at best.

 

[Nardpuncher]

Nah.

 

[IndyJones]

I don't think it is at all. He was providing a minor piece of information about something that corrected a minor mistake, and nobody made a big deal out if it before Nardpuncher.

It's not a big deal, but I didn't actually say anything incorrect.

 

[Christopher]

^You said it was "odd" because you remembered seeing another show on NBC called The Cape. Your use of "odd" suggested that you found it puzzling or mysterious, so I took it as a question and offered a bit of information that I thought would help resolve the mystery for you: namely that the earlier show wasn't an NBC network show, and thus it wasn't that much of a coincidence after all.

 

[Sci]

I don't think it is at all. He was providing a minor piece of information about something that corrected a minor mistake, and nobody made a big deal out if it before Nardpuncher.

It's not a big deal, but I didn't actually say anything incorrect.

*nods* Which is why I said that, for my money, if I had said the same thing and someone else had replied as Christopher had, I wouldn't have even considered it a "correction" as much as a clarification of my prior memory. I certainly wouldn't have invested a lot of energy into worrying about whether or not this show was an NBC network show or a syndicated show that happened to air on an NBC affiliate, and I get the sense you don't, either.

^You said it was "odd" because you remembered seeing another show on NBC called The Cape. Your use of "odd" suggested that you found it puzzling or mysterious, so I took it as a question and offered a bit of information that I thought would help resolve the mystery for you: namely that the earlier show wasn't an NBC network show, and thus it wasn't that much of a coincidence after all.

Which means, if I am understanding you correctly, that you meant no personal disrespect or condescension -- you were just offering information in an attempt to be helpful to another poster.

So -- in other words, we can all go home happy.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Watch The First Previews Of The Cape, NBC's New Superhero Drama
http://io9.com/5540242/watch-the-first-previews-of-the-cape-nbcs-new-superhero-drama

no Summer in the previews...