because it is very early and I'm very awake
The horrible danger of insomnia combined with friendsfriends--God. It's *crack*. I am totally understanding the draw. Currently working on avoiding ep reviews nad spoilers, since I haen't watched The Return yet
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There are whole stories out there doing Rodney-angst that can only rack up Rodney's pain by making John so OOC/horrible/vindictive that he's downright unrecognisable. A certain long Vicisstiudes of St Rodney epic is being posted right now, with Rodney's post-Trinity pain augmented by John and Elizabeth being so mean that you can almost read it to a soundtrack of "He was despised" from the Messiah.
Flanigan may never win an Oscar, but he's a created a John Sheppard that I like loads. Hewlett may be the better actor - he's certainly more versatile - but I don't think he needs this sort of pathetic support from his fangurls to prove it. I don't feel the need to denigrate Hewlett in order to bolster my love of Joe - why can't they be grown up enough to return the
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And for the most part I've learned not to say anything against Hewlett. I'm not a big fan of his, but I do feel and I've seen it all over, that Flanigan fans don't tend to dis Hewlett/Rodney to praise Flanigan/Shep. It's nice.
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It's--disconcerting. God.
And yeah. As a rule, though there are exceptions, the very few people I know who prefer Sheppard to McKay? Simply don't do this.
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Anyway, I agree with this post! ^-_-^
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I know what you mean. It pisses me off, so much so that when a fannish friend came round the other evening, and even though she's not into SGA at all, I insisted on showing her Common Ground to prove that Joe can act, because in the aftermath of the life-sucking torture all he's got to emote with is his eyes, and, God, they showed everything - all his pain and horror.
I'm pleased to report it was a total success and she agreed that, yes, that was good acting - and she's not the type who agrees just for the sake of it.
I love Rodney and think DH is a fine, fine actor, with a huge range. JF's is narrower, I think, from watching things both of them have been in, but it doesn't mean JF hasn't done some decent work. Objectively, I think DH is the better actor, but that doesn't mean that JF is actively bad. He's certainly good enough to make me love the character of John Sheppard with an unholy ( ... )
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Yeah. *g* I feel the same thing about Sheppard criticism as well. It's just--if they go in already having teh character/actor at a disadvantage in their head? I'm just not interested in the opinion, because there is no way to work with that in discussion.
Plus, it just pisses me off.
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I am continually baffled by the mocking of JF, too. Certainly he's made some... slightly odd acting choices sometimes, but he's made John Sheppard into a great, complex, intriguing character, at once charmingly goofy and borderline sociopathic - and has proved that he can act his pert little tushy off when he wants to (see Phantoms for a recent example).
I think the reason that flamboyant characters get so much attention is... well, there are two reasons. For one thing, they're flamboyant: if they're not getting your attention in some way, the actor's not doing his job. For another thing, it takes a hell of an actor to take a character who is so constantly 'on', who is meant to be in-your-face and slightly over the top. There is so much potential for a character like that to set the viewers' teeth on edge every time he comes onscreen, so ( ... )
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It's easy to think that DH is amazing for a few reasons.
1) He is amazing. He's an incredibly versatile actor with a lot of experience, and it shows.
2) As Rodney McKay, he is flamboyant to an extent that I think there should be another word for it. Every time DH is onscreen on SGA, there is no way for him to sit quietly in the background; when Rodney is in a scene, there is always some peripheral part of the scene that is focused on him ( ... )
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For me, that's it; that's it exactly. I kid around with the perceived fandom opinion that JF can't act, but that said, I'm aware that often is noted in comparison to DH, which as you said, 'louder', and so, not a very fair comparison.
The disconnect between his role type and how he's actually playing it is what makes the character Sheppard interesting to me. Someone (was it cesperanza?) described JF as a comedic actor trapped in a leading man body, and that's a description that both makes me giggle and something I agree with.
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Uhm, that would have been me. *g* It was in Ces's LJ, during one of the discussions of JF's acting. Actually, I am loving that they are giving him more to do stuff with during the 2nd half of this part of the season, with Common Ground and Phantoms.
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Well, hello you! :) At least I got the general vicinity of the comment correct. :)
Totally with you re: JF's acting opportunities.
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