Oh, man, I have MORE TO SAY but I've got to get some work done so I'm not going to be able to do this justice until tonight or tomorrow morning -- until then lemme just reply to this one -- YES. Have you seen Carlyle in Once Upon a Time? I got to SGU by way of him because his portrayal of Gold/Rumpel is so intense. And the amazing thing about Rush is that they may have the same face and the same Scottish accent, but the portrayal is so very different that it took me surprisingly little time to respond to Rush as an entirely different character. And yes, interview!Carlyle is a THIRD character entirely, someone very different! (And, as far as I've heard, really very nice, which is totally funny given the characters he plays. Perhaps he gets all his negative emotions out in his acting?)
I found the directing excellent. The cinematography... I thought evolved. (The ubiquituous montages, for example, in first season, I could have done without. Thankfully those went away in second season.) The large-scale writing in both first and part of second season frustrated me -- I thought there was entirely too much of telling instead of showing, telling us we were supposed to care about relationships and actions when they didn't give us enough background to do so (like in one scene Eli is supposed to be all cut up over Riley's death, and yeah, "Riley" is just code for "Ginn," but still -- I think we saw Eli and Riley talk ONCE. Maybe TWICE. It just didn't gel for me) -- but the small-scale character writing, THAT was always brilliant -- like how (in the same episode) Rush is just consistently, ever since the pilot, The Most Terrible at Saying Comforting Things Ever. HEE.
That's very interesting, about the voices. I do think they did a FANTASTIC job with casting, and ALL THE ACTORS ROCKED so hard.
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Date: 2012-07-17 08:44 pm (UTC)I found the directing excellent. The cinematography... I thought evolved. (The ubiquituous montages, for example, in first season, I could have done without. Thankfully those went away in second season.) The large-scale writing in both first and part of second season frustrated me -- I thought there was entirely too much of telling instead of showing, telling us we were supposed to care about relationships and actions when they didn't give us enough background to do so (like in one scene Eli is supposed to be all cut up over Riley's death, and yeah, "Riley" is just code for "Ginn," but still -- I think we saw Eli and Riley talk ONCE. Maybe TWICE. It just didn't gel for me) -- but the small-scale character writing, THAT was always brilliant -- like how (in the same episode) Rush is just consistently, ever since the pilot, The Most Terrible at Saying Comforting Things Ever. HEE.
That's very interesting, about the voices. I do think they did a FANTASTIC job with casting, and ALL THE ACTORS ROCKED so hard.