Michael Martinez
Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:39:42 -0800
At 06:25 PM 11/6/00, you wrote:
>Michael Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >The best I can figure it (and this is purely a guess), some
> >suit way up in the hierarchy either didn't like the character or the
>actor,
> >and has withstood all efforts at persuasion to bring him back.
>
>But... I thought you said the other day that the actor was off working
>on other projects, so *that* was the problem.
I didn't mean for it to sound like Michael's schedule was preventing from
returning to the show. He waited what he considered an appropriate length
of time to see what might turn up from the various protests and then got on
with his life. I'm sure he'd love to return to the show, but he's hardly
lacking in opportunities.
>In any case, from my "outside the box" point if view, it seems to me
>that the writers didn't always know what to do with the character. The
>characters would get in some sort of scrape and fisticuffs or a dinosaur
>encounter would ensue-- while the others would get all physical and
>really into it, Summerlee would often sit back and miraculously turn out
>okay. Often, his character didn't fit the physicality that the
>situation demanded, but the other character could handle. So I'd
>surmise that the producers didn't think the character fit so they got
>rid of him. It's a shame, really.
They could have had Professor Summerlee turning hand-flips if they'd wanted
to. He had a stunt double. For example, in "Barbarians at the gate" (the
final episode of the first season, where Summerlee takes an arrow in the
gut and falls into a gorge), Michael simply spun around and sat down in a
chair. The man we see falling is a much younger stunt double. In most
action/adventure shows there is extensive use of stunt doubles for the
primary actors. The rule of thumb is that if you don't see the actor's
face it's almost certainly a double.
On the other hand, Will Snow (Roxton) is said to prefer doing a lot of his
own stunts.
I don't think the first-season writing team did a great job with the
characters, but they definitely had more focus than the current team (which
may differ, for all I know, by only the head writer, who is a new
person). At the very least, there was some progression to the
characters. Now they seem all adrift, and fans who started watching in the
first season are becoming discouraged. Not all, but many.
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