I remember there was this YouTuber who had a red bottom about Geneviève Bujold getting the axe... even though you can see clips of her on YouTube, and she really wasn't feeling it. She probably saved Voyager by bowing out when she did.
Sometimes reaction to a character depends on one's fondness/dislike for the actor in the role. In my case, I had liked Kate Mulgrew in the previous productions in which I'd seen her (yes, even the much-maligned Mrs. Columbo) and as a result responded positively to her Janeway immediately.
She very likely did save the series from an early cancellation. Had it not been a mutual parting of ways Berman and Co would not have fired her. She was the star of the show. On the flip side she might have grown into the role. Tonally I'm thinking it would have been quite a different show with Bujold in the center seat. Bujold may have also had a bit more creative flex in her than Mulgrew did in that if she didn't like the way the character was being portrayed she might have told them off. I got the impression Bujold had a bit more clout at least in the beginning.Geneviève Bujold getting the axe... even though you can see clips of her on YouTube, and she really wasn't feeling it. She probably saved Voyager by bowing out when she did.
As Harrison Ford once said to Lucas: "You can write it but I can't say it."Well, it's a talent. I can write it, but babbling it out is tough even for me.
Yup. I think it's the TNG episode "Booby Trap" that I recall a clip from where everything works together very well to sell the intensity of the scene of them being trapped. And it's just Burton spouting the technical jargon while touching the scenery. But it works.I know a common issue among all ST actors was saying the technobabble. Some pulled it off better than others.
Like LeVar Burton. He's the gold standard on speaking technobabble convincingly. He made me think what he said was real.
You be the judge.
Given the caliber of actress that she was, she would certainly have made the character her own, had she endured. I haven't seen enough of her work to really speculate on what sort of Janeway we would have had in the end.I have seen that video. Her (potential) performance in the aggregate had she been allowed the chance to develop the character was what I had in mind.
I thought Bujold understood what a first time Captain should act, something a character could work on as the series progressed and not like the Ultimate super Captain like the GOAT.You be the judge.
You be the judge.
Fair enough.I thought Bujold understood what a first time Captain should act, something a character could work on as the series progressed and not like the Ultimate super Captain like the GOAT.
I thought Bujold understood what a first time Captain should act, something a character could work on as the series progressed and not like the Ultimate super Captain like the GOAT.
To be fair, I don't think the Janeway character started out that way. In the beginning, they tried to paint her with insecurities, which she tried to hide because she thought the crew needed a 'strong' captain, e.g. leading to her almost militaristic demeanor in the early seaons. It's only in the later seasons that she started to come across as somewhat smug in her victories, and that's not the character's or the actress' fault, but that of the writers.
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