Realization
Dec. 18th, 2007 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieSo I was watching my ancient tape (OMG ELEVEN YEARS OLD) of "Resolutions" last night--"research," you see--and I realized something.
Even before she goes crazy, Janeway kind of scares me.
It's mostly the actress rather than the character. KM...well, if I were to be charitable, I would say "acts big" or "acts for the stage," but I'm really not all that charitable so I'll call it what it is, which would be "chews the scenery to splinters." It's a little freaky. (Although it seems like pretty much everyone on every Trek has this problem. Part of it is the writing. Some of those lines...no one could deliver them and not sound pompous and grandiose.) And then there's that dark, gravelly, overenunciated voice that combines with the acting to make me feel like she wants to eat my soul.
I'm not sure how I missed this as a teenager. Maybe she has better, subtler moments that I just don't remember. I'm going to assume this is true, because that makes me feel better.
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According to the IMDB page for episode 4.8, Nana Visitor is guest-starring in the episode.
Hmmm. First we have Admiral Ro, now we have...Civilian Kira, it seems? Cool. Bajorans FTW!
(You know, assuming the studios ever come to their senses and make a deal with the writers so show actually airs at some point...)
Even before she goes crazy, Janeway kind of scares me.
It's mostly the actress rather than the character. KM...well, if I were to be charitable, I would say "acts big" or "acts for the stage," but I'm really not all that charitable so I'll call it what it is, which would be "chews the scenery to splinters." It's a little freaky. (Although it seems like pretty much everyone on every Trek has this problem. Part of it is the writing. Some of those lines...no one could deliver them and not sound pompous and grandiose.) And then there's that dark, gravelly, overenunciated voice that combines with the acting to make me feel like she wants to eat my soul.
I'm not sure how I missed this as a teenager. Maybe she has better, subtler moments that I just don't remember. I'm going to assume this is true, because that makes me feel better.
*
According to the IMDB page for episode 4.8, Nana Visitor is guest-starring in the episode.
Hmmm. First we have Admiral Ro, now we have...Civilian Kira, it seems? Cool. Bajorans FTW!
(You know, assuming the studios ever come to their senses and make a deal with the writers so show actually airs at some point...)
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Date: 2007-12-19 02:06 am (UTC)I think she does. Which is not to say she wasn't scary.
I also want to note how very, very happy it makes me to see anyone with whom I have not previously discussed her refer to her having gone crazy as a given. 'Cause, dude. The Batshit of Cap'n Katie was gobsmacking, and so many people still seem to think she made perfect sense. :: hides from them ::
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Date: 2007-12-19 02:51 am (UTC)I think her style is better in command/crisis situations. Here, she was all stilted and overdramatic and had a bunch of prominent pauses in everything she said, and I just wanted to say, "Dude, relax." (Although possibly one can interpret that as her being very unrelaxed at this whole being-left-behind-forever thing, but it was even apparent in that little scene with the tomatoes that's supposedly set like two months after they wound up on the planet.)
I also want to note how very, very happy it makes me to see anyone with whom I have not previously discussed her refer to her having gone crazy as a given. 'Cause, dude. The Batshit of Cap'n Katie was gobsmacking, and so many people still seem to think she made perfect sense. :: hides from them ::
OMG, yes. I quit watching in season six because...well, mostly because of "Fair Haven," which was bad enough on its own, but also because of the many other ways Kathy had gone INSANE over the past year and a half or so. Ever since the Borg showed up, she'd kind of being spiraling out of control. "Equinox" was the point where I seriously questioned why no one was relieving her of command.