Yeeeeeah. I think for me the problem was that I thought a character like Sheridan NEEDED a good actor to not be obnoxious, whereas Sinclair was simple enough in concept that it didn't really matter, so it's not that I think he's a better actor, but more...I could handle the badness from him.
Well, that and the fact I got through most of S1 happily pretending it was a 1940s noir movie and that was why everyone spoke at a million miles per hour in perfectly sardonic prose that no one would ever actually say outloud in real life. Um, at least any scenes that involved either Sinclair or Garibaldi...
Mostly, I'll take just about any of the other characters over either Sinclair or Sheridan. Except maybe Stephen. Poor Stephen. I tried to like him, but he has NO personality at all and a tendency to have the worst episodes focused on him. Well, and all those annoying people who appeared in season 5--Lochley and the telepath dude and such.
Yeah, I'm with you there. When me, Kev and Addy were all watching it through from start to finish a few years ago, we used to sing along during the credits, giving all the characters scores out of five depending on how much we liked them at the time. (Londo and G'Kar always got either FIVE or A MILLIONTY!, obvs) and poor Stephen never scored very well. I think I usually gave him 2, and that was mostly just because he wasn't Garibaldi.
OH GOD BYRON THOUGH. *gouges out eyes* I will never, ever, ever, ever, EVER forgive them for that bizarre arty sex scene they did with Lyta and all the other telepaths watching. *cries*
I was about to defend Lochley's honour because we sort of liked her, but then I remembered that had you not just typed it, I wouldn't actually have remembered her name as we all insisted on referring to her as "Captain Rack" and then laughing at her. So possibly the reasons we liked her are not really very defense-worthy. We did like her though. She usually got like...a four on the shouting-score-card-opening-credits game.
But since Ivanova, G'Kar, Londo, and Delenn are some of the best characters ever, I forgive the others!
True! Well, at least the first three on that list. I...never loved Delenn quite as much as the rest of fandom seems to *ducks thrown fruit* I mean, I like her well enough, and I love the idea of her. But somehow... I dunno. Maybe it's the actor vs character thing again. Because I don't think the actress playing Ivanova was stellar either (though she wasn't bad, unlike Bruce Boxleitner), but that didn't hamper the strength with which she pulled off the character nearly as much? Maybe?
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Date: 2009-12-07 06:18 pm (UTC)Well, that and the fact I got through most of S1 happily pretending it was a 1940s noir movie and that was why everyone spoke at a million miles per hour in perfectly sardonic prose that no one would ever actually say outloud in real life. Um, at least any scenes that involved either Sinclair or Garibaldi...
Mostly, I'll take just about any of the other characters over either Sinclair or Sheridan. Except maybe Stephen. Poor Stephen. I tried to like him, but he has NO personality at all and a tendency to have the worst episodes focused on him. Well, and all those annoying people who appeared in season 5--Lochley and the telepath dude and such.
Yeah, I'm with you there. When me, Kev and Addy were all watching it through from start to finish a few years ago, we used to sing along during the credits, giving all the characters scores out of five depending on how much we liked them at the time. (Londo and G'Kar always got either FIVE or A MILLIONTY!, obvs) and poor Stephen never scored very well. I think I usually gave him 2, and that was mostly just because he wasn't Garibaldi.
OH GOD BYRON THOUGH. *gouges out eyes* I will never, ever, ever, ever, EVER forgive them for that bizarre arty sex scene they did with Lyta and all the other telepaths watching. *cries*
I was about to defend Lochley's honour because we sort of liked her, but then I remembered that had you not just typed it, I wouldn't actually have remembered her name as we all insisted on referring to her as "Captain Rack" and then laughing at her. So possibly the reasons we liked her are not really very defense-worthy. We did like her though. She usually got like...a four on the shouting-score-card-opening-credits game.
But since Ivanova, G'Kar, Londo, and Delenn are some of the best characters ever, I forgive the others!
True! Well, at least the first three on that list. I...never loved Delenn quite as much as the rest of fandom seems to *ducks thrown fruit* I mean, I like her well enough, and I love the idea of her. But somehow... I dunno. Maybe it's the actor vs character thing again. Because I don't think the actress playing Ivanova was stellar either (though she wasn't bad, unlike Bruce Boxleitner), but that didn't hamper the strength with which she pulled off the character nearly as much? Maybe?