Yeah, I know Lily's a popular character, not necessarily saying it should have happened but just if she was going to have an expanded role in one of the movies that was the one that makes sense. Not sure what she'd do in any of the others.
What are your opinions regarding Star Trek that are, shall we say, unorthodox?
She could have started Insurrection by saying "This is just a two hour long TV episode, and not a very good one. Demand your money back and wait for it to come out on video. And no, the next one will not be better." and saved us all a lot of time and caused our undying adoration. But you're right. i don't know, either. Picardo upstaged her in FC but he does that wherever he is.
But without Beverly whose boobs would Deanna get to comment on. Such quality writing reminiscent of who cares when your toes curl
As discussed on the last page she could have been his wife in the Nexus although that would have been a short scene too. Maybe Wesley shows up and the prospect of spending eternity with him snaps him back to reality.
Not just that, but also the director. Let's face it, Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman are both amazing performers, but when you at the prequels.....
If you have bad dialogue and a bad director, you can be an great actor and still perform badly.
A friend and I have long maintained that, for whatever reason, that was intentional on George Lucas' part. Both of them are great actors, as you mentioned. It had to be deliberate direction to act that wooden.
One line and one very small scene both cut. Give Beverly something that might move her character along and then don't bother to put it in the film anyway. Would Nemesis have been any different if they had a random doctor scanning Troi in sickbay and just threw in a line that Beverly had left?
Perhaps unorthodox but I choose to accept this as my headcanon outcome with Picard season 3 completely disregarded. I also headcanon that her brief stint as head of Medical in TNG season 2 was because McCoy had died and her knowledge of the Bluegill made her a trustworthy interim surgeon general while Starfleet sorted its shit out in the aftermath of that but she turned down the position full time to be with Wesley.
I don't see anything wrong with McGregor's performance.
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George liked to paint the Republic as a more formal, stoic period of galactic history and the Jedi as very etiquette-oriented and rigid in speech patterns, though we frequently saw many cases to the contrary for both.
Sure, but the character didn't act like that. They were wooden, and struggled with the dialogue. Hell, the infamous balcony scene between Padme and Anakin.... That's not formal and stoic, simply bad directing and writing.
George wasn't good at directing genuine human emotion after American Graffiti and Star Wars. 
'09 is nowhere in the same weight class as the nominated movies for the 82nd Academy Awards:
- The Hurt Locker [WINNER]
- Avatar
- The Blind Side
- District 9
- An Education
- Inglourious Basterds
- Precious
- A Serious Man
- Up
- Up in the Air
I personally liked Star Trek '09 more than all of those.
I've only seen four of these. Avatar, District 9, Inglourious Basterds and Up.
I like paintings of dogs playing poker more than Rembrandt. But they aren't as good.
The dogs playing poker paintings are masterpieces, I will not be convinced otherwise.
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