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Post by nucleusofswarm on May 4, 2018 23:50:09 GMT
What's some other work you've been impressed with? Paul in Luther, Tom in Nicholas & Alexandra, Syl in Hobbit?
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Post by SG. on May 5, 2018 0:35:15 GMT
Tennant as Kilgrave in Jessica Jones. The second season was nowhere as good without him.
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Post by Hieronymus on May 5, 2018 1:30:05 GMT
Louise Jameson in The Omega Factor.
Honorable mentions:
Tom Baker in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad & The Silver Chair
Peter Davison in The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
David Tennant in Richard II
Catherine Tate in The Catherine Tate Show
Arthur Darvill in Marlowe's Faust
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Post by aemiliapaula on May 5, 2018 9:42:51 GMT
Alex Kingston as Queen Boudicca
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 9:54:43 GMT
Sir John Hurt in The Naked Civil Servant.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on May 5, 2018 11:31:38 GMT
Paul McGann in Hornblower and Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)
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Post by iainmclaughlin on May 5, 2018 17:14:45 GMT
There are so many good ones to pick from. Patrick Troughton never gave a bad performance in his life. Jon Pertwee as Worzel Gummidge was a hero to another generation of kids. Tom Baker absolutely owned the screen in Nicholas and Alexandra. Peter Davison was terrific in both Campion and All Creatures Grunt and Smell, and he was *really* excellent in the Miss Marple 2 parter, A Pocketful of Rye. Paul McGann in A Monocled Mutineer, The Hanging Gale and pretty much everything he's been in in. Christopher Eccleston in The Second Coming and Cracker. David Tennant in Broadchurch or Jessica Jones. Peter Capaldi in Local Hero, The Crow Road or The Thick of It. Then there's John Hurt in... everything he did, really... and what about Peter Cushing? If I absolutely have to choose just one, it's Capaldi as Malcom Tucker. But they've all done great work elsewhere.
I only stuck to Doctors... I could take a week just saying how great Louise Jameson has been in other roles, and then once we go to all the companions and guest artists I'd never get any work done...
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 17:20:54 GMT
Hartnell in This Sporting Life
Troughton in Scars Of Dracula
Pertwee in Superted
Tom in The Silver Chair
Davison in A Very Peculiar Practice
Colin in Blake's 7
McCoy in Still Game
McGann in The Monocled Mutineer
Hurt in Little Malcolm And The Battle Against The Eunuchs
Eccleston in Let Him Have It
Tennant in Taking Over The Ayslum
Smith in Bert And Dickie
Capaldi in The Thick Of It
Whitaker in Venus
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Post by masterdoctor on May 5, 2018 18:18:55 GMT
Capaldi in The Thick of It
David Warner in his roles in The Cornetto Trilogy
Eccleston in The Leftovers
Tennant in Broadchurch
McGann in Luther
Troughton in The Omen
Pertwee in The Navy Lark
Smith in The Crown
Hurt in 1984
Whittaker in Attack the Block
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 20:36:23 GMT
William Hartnell in Brighton Rock - For me a young First Doctor in full Anti-Hero mode; he takes the moral ground forcefully and gloriously at the end.
Patrick Troughton in the Omen - after years of supporting roles as a character actor he provides a powerful presence in a big hollywood movie.
Tom Baker in Vault of Horror and Nicholas and Alexandria - hard to believe he was out of work when Barry Letts went to see him in Sinbad...
Jon Pertwee as Worzel Gummidge - he was the one Doctor to trump his portrayal with another role
Paul McGann in Withnail and I - a favorite long before 1996 - having both McGann and Richard E Grant becoming Doctors altered the perspective of this film in latter days unfortunately. You could imagine it as a sort of twisted canon story of two exiled Doctors....
Peter Davison - he was always 'Tristan becomes Doctor Who' as a youngster and that remains his main role to me.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2018 4:03:21 GMT
Paul McGann in Hornblower and Alien 3 (Assembly Cut) Second Lieutenant Bush. He does such a good job.  David Warner too is absolutely heartbreaking as the mad Captain James Sawyer. What I find interesting is that he's not a one-note Captain Bligh. One of those villains who are well within their faculties and are simply nasty for the sake of, well, smugness (poor devils...). No, he's a lot closer to someone like General Carrington from The Ambassadors of Death. A very, very sick man who has paid the ultimate price for all his years of service. There's a real poignancy to Warner's role that gives this particular Hornblower bout a special significance. The stories are Mutiny and Retribution if anyone wants to check the performances out. (I wonder if a decent Doctor Who story could be gleaned from it...?  ) |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on May 8, 2018 11:55:19 GMT
Paul McGann in Hornblower and Alien 3 (Assembly Cut) Second Lieutenant Bush. He does such a good job. David Warner too is absolutely heartbreaking as the mad Captain James Sawyer. What I find interesting is that he's not a one-note Captain Bligh. One of those villains who are well within their faculties and are simply nasty for the sake of, well, smugness (poor devils...). No, he's a lot closer to someone like General Carrington from The Ambassadors of Death. A very, very sick man who has paid the ultimate price for all his years of service. There's a real poignancy to Warner's role that gives this particular Hornblower bout a special significance. The stories are Mutiny and Retribution if anyone wants to check the performances out. (I wonder if a decent Doctor Who story could be gleaned from it...? ) Oh I agree about Warner as well. He's spot on as always |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2018 22:15:38 GMT
Second Lieutenant Bush. He does such a good job. David Warner too is absolutely heartbreaking as the mad Captain James Sawyer. What I find interesting is that he's not a one-note Captain Bligh. One of those villains who are well within their faculties and are simply nasty for the sake of, well, smugness (poor devils...). No, he's a lot closer to someone like General Carrington from The Ambassadors of Death. A very, very sick man who has paid the ultimate price for all his years of service. There's a real poignancy to Warner's role that gives this particular Hornblower bout a special significance. The stories are Mutiny and Retribution if anyone wants to check the performances out. (I wonder if a decent Doctor Who story could be gleaned from it...? ) Oh I agree about Warner as well. He's spot on as always Ooh, also, I forgot we had James Marsters (after a fashion)... Charlemagne Bolivar from Andromeda. Tyr may embody everything the Nietzscheans became after the Fall, but I think Charlemagne might personify how/why they were accepted into the Systems Commonwealth in the first place. Plus, he's just so much damn fun in the role: |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on May 9, 2018 11:51:14 GMT
Oh I agree about Warner as well. He's spot on as always Ooh, also, I forgot we had James Marsters (after a fashion)... Charlemagne Bolivar from Andromeda. Tyr may embody everything the Nietzscheans became after the Fall, but I think Charlemagne might personify how/why they were accepted into the Systems Commonwealth in the first place. Plus, he's just so much damn fun in the role: The interplay between Marsters and Hamilton Cobb was brilliant in that episode. Shame Marsters didn't come back, but that was done to behind the scenes changes wasn't it |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 22:05:02 GMT
Ooh, also, I forgot we had James Marsters (after a fashion)... Charlemagne Bolivar from Andromeda. Tyr may embody everything the Nietzscheans became after the Fall, but I think Charlemagne might personify how/why they were accepted into the Systems Commonwealth in the first place. Plus, he's just so much damn fun in the role: The interplay between Marsters and Hamilton Cobb was brilliant in that episode. Shame Marsters didn't come back, but that was done to behind the scenes changes wasn't it That and scheduling conflicts I think. The Sabra-Jaguar fleet were supposed to turn up with the POW Commonwealth ships to make up Dylan's force for the fight against the Pyrians at Season 2's close (what eventually become Point of the Spear). I'm not sure if it would have happened, but the idea of having him join as a permanent member of the cast was floated around at one point. Makes a nice bit of character sense as well given how he spends most of that episode trying to get someone on Andromeda's command staff to act on his behalf. |
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Post by rran on May 10, 2018 4:35:56 GMT
Tennant as Kilgrave. I watched Jessica Jones for his sake |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on May 10, 2018 11:14:04 GMT
The interplay between Marsters and Hamilton Cobb was brilliant in that episode. Shame Marsters didn't come back, but that was done to behind the scenes changes wasn't it That and scheduling conflicts I think. The Sabra-Jaguar fleet were supposed to turn up with the POW Commonwealth ships to make up Dylan's force for the fight against the Pyrians at Season 2's close (what eventually become Point of the Spear). I'm not sure if it would have happened, but the idea of having him join as a permanent member of the cast was floated around at one point. Makes a nice bit of character sense as well given how he spends most of that episode trying to get someone on Andromeda's command staff to act on his behalf. Yeah that sounds about right. It was all meant to be part of Wolfe's build to his original epic ending as the Sabra-Jaguar fleet was going to be the only Nietzschean pride not to join Tyr's new Alliance. |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2018 0:17:55 GMT
That and scheduling conflicts I think. The Sabra-Jaguar fleet were supposed to turn up with the POW Commonwealth ships to make up Dylan's force for the fight against the Pyrians at Season 2's close (what eventually become Point of the Spear). I'm not sure if it would have happened, but the idea of having him join as a permanent member of the cast was floated around at one point. Makes a nice bit of character sense as well given how he spends most of that episode trying to get someone on Andromeda's command staff to act on his behalf. Yeah that sounds about right. It was all meant to be part of Wolfe's build to his original epic ending as the Sabra-Jaguar fleet was going to be the only Nietzschean pride not to join Tyr's new Alliance. Yep. After all, the Sabra and the Jaguar would wiped each other out without Dylan's interference. To them, he's got the prime survival strategy, not Tyr. And to swing back to the original thread topic. Recently, Nicola Bryant as Lana in Star Trek Continues. No spoilers, but she's one of the prime elements to why that finale's so strong. |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on May 11, 2018 11:37:42 GMT
Yeah that sounds about right. It was all meant to be part of Wolfe's build to his original epic ending as the Sabra-Jaguar fleet was going to be the only Nietzschean pride not to join Tyr's new Alliance. Yep. After all, the Sabra and the Jaguar would wiped each other out without Dylan's interference. To them, he's got the prime survival strategy, not Tyr. And to swing back to the original thread topic. Recently, Nicola Bryant as Lana in Star Trek Continues. No spoilers, but she's one of the prime elements to why that finale's so strong. Definitely. Its why we need a reboot of Andromeda based on Woolfe's Coda.
Oh right, Ive never actually watched Star Trek Continues. Is it a good series?
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2018 11:58:38 GMT
And to swing back to the original thread topic. Recently, Nicola Bryant as Lana in Star Trek Continues. No spoilers, but she's one of the prime elements to why that finale's so strong. Haven't seen that episode yet. But Colin Baker was also in Star Trek Continues. |
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