The bloopers are so awesome - Lance Reddick breaking character and sounding like a human being instead of an alien, heee!
I like the show enough at this point to want the DVDs, especially with the features. Do love a good making-of. And I'd like to see some stuff about the doubles especially - they're really good and subtle with those effects; most of the time I totally forget I'm watching the same actor, and some of that is acting but some is the special f/x!
...But some is acting, yeah. John Noble, just, wow. --And that's putting aside how Walter would be an incredibly challenging character even WITHOUT the alt-versions, with the mood swings and brilliance and insanity; that he pulls it off convincingly, and makes Walter sympathetic, even lovable...yeah, wow.
And heh, I agree re: JJackson. I am very partial to him (Peter's my type of char in character and looks, and I admit I'm kind of casting him as David Sleight in my mind (more in looks than in voice, but...)) but he's the weakest of the three leads. I was reading a previous post of yours in which you mentioned you had trouble connecting with Peter, and I was wondering if that might have been part of it? The thing is, I actually think he's a decent actor - I put his skills around level with Jensen Ackles, who I think is the best of the SPN cast - it's just that up against powerhouses like John Noble and Anna Torv, he can't compete!
As for the show itself...aaaaagh I don't knooooow! The thing is, I actually loved the Peter/Olivia stuff in s3 (putting aside the baby stuff, which I didn't mind in theory but argh scifi pregnancy DNW!! >.<) But the way it's played out in the second half of s4 has been unsatisfying; Olivia's feeling increasingly OOC to me, and even if I am an OTPer - hell, as an OTPer - I don't want my pairing at the expense of who the characters are! Defeats the whole purpose. But considering how on-board I was with it in s3 - I'm wondering if I'm supposed to feel this way? (though whether it's to pave the way for a 'true' happy ending/reunion with 'real'/blueverse Olivia, or because it's telling a story about alt selves and it's not meant to be a happy ending, but is supposed to leave you uneasy - I don't know!!)
And yes, god, I miss Peter & blueverse!Walter so much ;_; I really am enjoying that side of amberverse, watching Peter be the one reaching out, seeing how much worse off Walter was without Peter - but at the same time, oh, the thought that blue!Walter is gone guts me.
And yeah, I've been telling myself that this is just what Walter would've wanted - if he knew that sacrificing his...identity?...would save Peter and give him a life in another universe, with his father still even if a different father - Walter would take that bargain in a hot second! And in some ways it's what Walter deserved - that he's paying for his sin of (nearly) destroying two universes by being destroyed himself? And he did get to say goodbye, and give up Peter, and maybe that was the proper conclusion to his story? I tell myself this...but I still miss blue!Walter and what he was building with Peter...
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Date: 2012-04-19 09:43 pm (UTC)I like the show enough at this point to want the DVDs, especially with the features. Do love a good making-of. And I'd like to see some stuff about the doubles especially - they're really good and subtle with those effects; most of the time I totally forget I'm watching the same actor, and some of that is acting but some is the special f/x!
...But some is acting, yeah. John Noble, just, wow. --And that's putting aside how Walter would be an incredibly challenging character even WITHOUT the alt-versions, with the mood swings and brilliance and insanity; that he pulls it off convincingly, and makes Walter sympathetic, even lovable...yeah, wow.
And heh, I agree re: JJackson. I am very partial to him (Peter's my type of char in character and looks, and I admit I'm kind of casting him as David Sleight in my mind (more in looks than in voice, but...)) but he's the weakest of the three leads. I was reading a previous post of yours in which you mentioned you had trouble connecting with Peter, and I was wondering if that might have been part of it? The thing is, I actually think he's a decent actor - I put his skills around level with Jensen Ackles, who I think is the best of the SPN cast - it's just that up against powerhouses like John Noble and Anna Torv, he can't compete!
As for the show itself...aaaaagh I don't knooooow! The thing is, I actually loved the Peter/Olivia stuff in s3 (putting aside the baby stuff, which I didn't mind in theory but argh scifi pregnancy DNW!! >.<) But the way it's played out in the second half of s4 has been unsatisfying; Olivia's feeling increasingly OOC to me, and even if I am an OTPer - hell, as an OTPer - I don't want my pairing at the expense of who the characters are! Defeats the whole purpose. But considering how on-board I was with it in s3 - I'm wondering if I'm supposed to feel this way? (though whether it's to pave the way for a 'true' happy ending/reunion with 'real'/blueverse Olivia, or because it's telling a story about alt selves and it's not meant to be a happy ending, but is supposed to leave you uneasy - I don't know!!)
And yes, god, I miss Peter & blueverse!Walter so much ;_; I really am enjoying that side of amberverse, watching Peter be the one reaching out, seeing how much worse off Walter was without Peter - but at the same time, oh, the thought that blue!Walter is gone guts me.
And yeah, I've been telling myself that this is just what Walter would've wanted - if he knew that sacrificing his...identity?...would save Peter and give him a life in another universe, with his father still even if a different father - Walter would take that bargain in a hot second! And in some ways it's what Walter deserved - that he's paying for his sin of (nearly) destroying two universes by being destroyed himself? And he did get to say goodbye, and give up Peter, and maybe that was the proper conclusion to his story? I tell myself this...but I still miss blue!Walter and what he was building with Peter...