V casting news

[Captaindemotion]

^ Shades of the way the Stargate series have artfully cast actors from other popular genre shows, by the looks of it.

That practice is hardly unique to Stargate. There are actors who keep cropping up across multiple genre series in both live action and animation. Heroes has plenty of genre veterans as supporting players. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has Summer Glau and Heroes' Thomas Dekker as well as The 4400's Garrett Dillahunt. Dollhouse not only has Whedon vets Eliza Dushku and Amy Acker, but BSG's Tahmoh Penikett, The Matrix trilogy's Harry Lennix, and Journeyman's Reed Diamond. In animation, Justice League Unlimited had guest or recurring roles played by at least five Whedon veterans, as well as Trek veteran Jeffrey Combs, who was also in The 4400. And so on.

True. But as you can see, I was going for a short post and SG came to mind first, not least of all because Morena and fellow FF alumnus Jewel Staite have been in it. Besides, since SG has had actors from most of the modern Trek shows, FF and Farscape, I think (offhand) they're the most prolific at this sort of casting.

Not that there's anything wrong with it -gets the likes of us interested, right?!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Here's an odd statement...

WBTV's "V," a re-imagining of the 1980s miniseries about an invasion of aliens known as Visitors, centers on Erica (guest star Elizabeth Mitchell), a female Homeland Security agent.

How can a series "center" on a guest star? Does she get killed off early on and the lead changes? Not impossible, but it would be strange; changing a lead on purpose isn't a risk that a new show should be taking. More likely: this is a smokescreen to keep Lost fans from guessing that Juliet is doomed (which a lot of us have guessed anyway )

 

[Aragorn]

^ The show UC: Undercover had Grant Show as the main character. Then he gets killed off in like episode two and Oded Fehr became the new lead.

Of course, anyone who watched the show and saw Fehr's name first in the opening credits from the get go (with Show's name listed as a guest star) should've been able to see that one coming.

 

[Witterquick]

Doesn't many series center on a dead character? For example Desperate Housewives have a dead character as a narrator, and I think a mystery revolves around her?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I've never seen DH but a narrator doesn't strike me as a likely main character. Isn't that actress who used to be Lois Lane the main character? A main character generally needs to be capable of doing things in the world, not just talking about them, and the audience needs to see that person. There are plenty of murder mysteries where the murder victim is not the main character - Sherlock Holmes stories for starters.

Dead characters who are still capable of interacting with their environment certainly can be main characters. But in that case, the actor playing that character isn't going to just be a "guest character." Even a narrator wouldn't be a guest character - they're an ongoing employee who has a role in the story and needs to show up for work. Can't be off in Hawaii on another show at the same time.

 

[Greg Cox]

Doesn't many series center on a dead character? For example Desperate Housewives have a dead character as a narrator, and I think a mystery revolves around her?

Mary Alice is the narrator, but she's never been the main character. And the mystery surrounding her was resolved at the end of the first season.

Now her voice is just hanging around to make pithy observations at the beginning and end of each episode. It's sort of like saying that Rod Serling is the main character of THE TWILIGHT ZONE!

 

[Witterquick]

I was thinking a series could potentially "center" on a character without the character being the main character. Lets say if it centers on a mystery that involves a guest character, we don't really have to see this character every week. Like Veronica Mars' 1st season when she was trying to solve a murder I think. Wow ... I used to watch tv.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

V already has a center - the alien invaders - so I don't see how Elizabeth Mitchell's character can be murdered and that serves as the center of the plot.

 

[Christopher]

Isn't it possible that the article writer simply got inaccurate information, or phrased the sentence poorly? Not much point dwelling on how a show can center on a guest star when we don't even know if that claim is accurate to begin with.

 

[Kryton]

It's sort of like saying that Rod Serling is the main character of THE TWILIGHT ZONE!

Actually, I always HAVE considered him the mayor of the Twilight Zone...but it's probably more of an honorary title.

 

[StarTrek1701]

Wait.. so now V has two Firefly-made-famous actors? That's a double jinx!