Yahoo's "TV's MVPs" (a little love for BSG)
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I don't watch all the shows in that list, but those are good choices.
I had to wonder only about the new Melrose Place being on there, but yeah, the rest seemed like they belong.
Katie Cassidy and Ian Sommerhalder certainly qualify as MVP players on Little-League teams. If that isn't a mixed metaphor. I know zip about sports. 
Yeah she was middle of the pack or maybe lower, in comparison with the other actors. The Cylons' writing was kind of crummy but even so, a good actor can bring some sort of spark to even a bad role. I never noticed that she was a particularly interesting actor that might mean, for instance, that she could take up a completely different role now and still hold our interest, whereas I saw Katie Cassidy on that stupid murder-island show, playing a very different character, but she was a standout there too.
When you have an actor like Adam Arkin on a good show, surrounded by good actors, it's more of a head-scratcher why they'd choose him rather than, say, Katie Sagal. But put an actor in a situation where the writing and other actors conspire against them, and that's the real acid test. Like Zachary Quinto on Heroes - badly written character, badly written show, most of the other actors are quite a bit less talented than he is - yet he still brings a spark to that role. So it comes as no surprise when he's given a good role like Spock and knocks it out of the park.
Yeah she was middle of the pack or maybe lower, in comparison with the other actors. The Cylons' writing was kind of crummy but even so, a good actor can bring some sort of spark to even a bad role. I never noticed that she was a particularly interesting actor that might mean, for instance, that she could take up a completely different role now and still hold our interest, whereas I saw Katie Cassidy on that stupid murder-island show, playing a very different character, but she was a standout there too.
It's not about the shows, it's about the actors. Both Cassidy and Somerhalder really stand out on their shows because they are on bad shows and many of their co-stars are bad actors. Cassidy was a standout on a bad show before that, too.
When you have an actor like Adam Arkin on a good show, surrounded by good actors, it's more of a head-scratcher why they'd choose him rather than, say, Katie Sagal. But put an actor in a situation where the writing and other actors conspire against them, and that's the real acid test. Like Zachary Quinto on Heroes - badly written character, badly written show, most of the other actors are quite a bit less talented than he is - yet he still brings a spark to that role. So it comes as no surprise when he's given a good role like Spock and knocks it out of the park.
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