No Love for the Deschanels' Faux Social Pariahs

[akirlu]

Previously, the main thing* I'd ever seen Zooey Deschanel in was Big Trouble, a greatly underrated comedy classic, as far as I'm concerned, and a movie of which I am thoroughly fond. In it Deschanel plays the too-cool-to-emote teenage daughter of Rene Russo and Stanley Tucci, and acquits herself perfectly well in the role. So I was a bit baffled

Comments

[greyorm]

Huh. Wife and I discovered that show via Netflix and found the show, and Deschanel's character, adorable and amusing.

However, I found Napoleon Dynamite impossible to enjoy, let alone watch, and got about 15 minutes in before I was thoroughly un-sold on it and shortly thereafter found something else to indulge in.

[bemused_leftist]

Deschanel does not own the dorkitude, she holds it at arms length

I've been aiming my fire at the scriptwriters and perhaps the director. Spock and Holmes are celebrated for their detachment; Brennan is like Data, wanting to be human, collapsing when someone shakes their finger and says "That's a no-no." Except when after a few shakes she breaks right through that barrier and gives the right diagnosis damn the torpedoes, and is right. (Example tactlessly asking where the little girl got the bone cancer, and pursuing that.)