[lost-world] Summerlee

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Michael Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>They could have had Professor Summerlee turning hand-flips if they'd
wanted 
>to.  He had a stunt double.

I didn't mean to imply that the Michael Sinelkof (sp?) wasn't up to the
task of a lot of physical stuff on the show.  I meant that the character
of Summerlee wasn't.  Michael portrayed him as a rather frail man, so it
would be out of character to have him doing hand-flips.

Back to my original point, the *character* was not very appropriate for
a lot of the fisticuffs and dinosaur battles that the others were, and
it appears to me that the writers didn't always know what to do with the
character because of it.

>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.

I just perused some of the message boards and was surprised to hear that
so many people don't like the second season so far.  IMO, the first 
season was weak in many respects.  The characters were fine and I
actually liked them, but the stories left a bit to be desired.  Seems to
me that they're now trying a different tack and it'll take a few
episodes for them to get their feet grounded.  It's not all that bad and
a far sight better than first season.  The characters do seem a bit off,
but there's only so many times you can have Marguarite act like she's
siding with the enemy, only to end up freeing her friends and escaping.
They've got to move on.

Robert

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