>> I don't know if it was BAD casting. Ishtar, for example, was a LOUSY
>> movie. Doesn't mean Dustin Hoffman is a lousy actor, he just got into a
>> bad movie. Same with Spielberg and "!941." Enterprise was just a matter
>> of 1. Bad writing and execution and 2. A tired franchise desparately in
>> of a creative transfusion.

>
>
> Bad casting doesn't mean bad actors. It means actors put into role that
> are wrong for them -- such as John Wayne cast as Genghis Khan in the
> "Conqueror" (in my opinion, the worst casting decision that has ever
> occurred).

> As for Ent, I thought Billingsley and Trinnear were both good casting
> choices, Phlox was played very well and Trip while less consistent was
> merely hokey when bad, rateher than completely embarassing like some
> questionably written southern characters, and connor several times made
> jokes that were absolutely crap on paper work reasonably well in the
> dialogue. Bakula I am undecided about, Archer, I agree with several of the
> posters in this thread, was to inconsistantly written to really work over
> the entirety of the series. Dominic Keating i'd like to see in something
> else, the writing for him was atrocious, constantly winging about
> insubordinate behaviour and lack of correct military deportment, when he
> himself was the least subordinate member of the crew. Joleene started very
> poorly but toward the end she had improved a bit and even managed to deliver
> a few very good scenes (specifically the split screen sequence in E^2 and
> the commiseration scene in the lets all throw giant rocks at mars ep.) as
> for hoshi and mayweather, im sorry but the fairest thing you can say about
> them based on Ent is :- who?, they were both fine when given something to
> do, but they were given precious little to do. As usual, i feel, that the
> guest actor casting was top notch.
>
> ...

>
> As for Montgomery -- wow, I almost forgot he was in the cast, just as I
> usually forgot that Mayweather was part of the show while I was watching
> it. He is the true man of mahogany. I've never before seen any actor
> deliver such a lifeless performance.

> "Al Smith" address.com> wrote in message
> news:kBt2h.37331$P7.35068@edtnps90...
>

>>>
>>> As for Montgomery -- wow, I almost forgot he was in the cast, just as I
>>> usually forgot that Mayweather was part of the show while I was watching
>>> it. He is the true man of mahogany. I've never before seen any actor
>>> deliver such a lifeless performance.

>
>
> I would say that Yule Brinners anti-smoking campaign was pretty lifeless
>
>
>
> ok, yeah that does show my age, and my complete lack of taste :-)
>
> cheers
> Fozzi
>
> ...

>> As for Ent, I thought Billingsley and Trinnear were both good casting

>
>
> My take on the cast of Enterprise:
>
>
> Blalock was the best thing in the show, next to Billingsley. Her character
> was powerful and interesting. Some women couldn't get past the catsuits.
> Well, that's their problem, not Blalock's. I had no trouble with the
> catsuits. Oddly enough, I've never had trouble accepting catsuits on Trek.
> Maybe it's because they make the women who wear them look damn good.
>

>> Blalock was the best thing in the show, next to Billingsley. Her character
>> was powerful and interesting. Some women couldn't get past the catsuits.
>> Well, that's their problem, not Blalock's. I had no trouble with the
>> catsuits. Oddly enough, I've never had trouble accepting catsuits on Trek.
>> Maybe it's because they make the women who wear them look damn good.

> We're in the minority here Al... I thought she was terrific, and the 3rd
>best Vulcan ever. No only did I love the cat suit, but loved her naked back
>even more!

>On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 19:50:48 -0500, "glassman" aol.com> wrote:
>

>>> Blalock was the best thing in the show, next to Billingsley. Her character
>>> was powerful and interesting. Some women couldn't...

> On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:58:40 -0500, George Peatty
> copper.net> wrote:
>
>

>>On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 19:50:48 -0500, "glassman" aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>

>>>>Blalock was the best thing in the show, next to Billingsley. Her character
>>>>was powerful and interesting. Some women couldn't get past the catsuits.
>>>>Well, that's their problem, not Blalock's. I had no trouble with the
>>>>catsuits. Oddly enough, I've never had trouble accepting catsuits on Trek.
>>>>Maybe it's because they make the women who wear them look damn good.

>>
>>

>>> We're in the minority here Al... I thought she was terrific, and the 3rd
>>>best Vulcan ever. No only did I love the cat suit, but loved her naked back
>>>even more!

>>
>> ...

>>My take on the cast of Enterprise:

>>>
>>>
>>> Blalock was the best thing in the show, next to Billingsley. Her character
>>> was powerful and interesting. Some women couldn't get past the catsuits.
>>> Well, that's their problem, not Blalock's. I had no trouble with the
>>> catsuits. Oddly enough, I've never had trouble accepting catsuits on Trek.
>>> Maybe it's because they make the women who wear them look damn good.
>>>

>
>
> We're in the minority here Al... I thought she was terrific, and the 3rd
> best Vulcan ever. No only did I love the cat suit, but loved her naked back
> even more!
>
> -- JK Sinrod

>>>>> Blalock was the best thing in the show, next to Billingsley. Her character was powerful and interesting. Some women couldn't get past the catsuits. Well, that's their problem, not Blalock's. I had no trouble with the catsuits. Oddly enough, I've never had trouble accepting catsuits on Trek. Maybe it's because they make the women who wear them look damn good.

>>>
>>>
>>>

>>>> We're in the minority here Al... I thought she was terrific, and the 3rd best Vulcan ever. No only did I love the cat suit, but loved her naked back even more!

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Add me to the list. I thought the catsuit made her look like
>>> tits-on-a-stick, and somewhere online someone has called her T'it-pole, but
>>> Blalock is unquestionably a very attractive woman. Probably the only
>>> subject Howard Stern and I agree on ..
>>>

>>
>>
>> I liked the character but found the whole woman in a catsuit thing to
>> be a tired and rather silly trek cliche.

>
>
> Um, usually in ST the women crewmembers wore the same uniform as the men, with minor gender-related variations. What irritated me is that T'Pol didn't wear the Enterprise uniform. ...