It's a shame -- there's clearly more to Paul Gross than the smugness. Goodness, he wrote some of the best episodes of the series, and he has done some serious play-writing as well, plus producing and directing. FWIW, I'm told that he comes off in interviews often as a smug frat-boy, which can't be all there is to him.

(Conversely, Callum Keith Rennie is witty and self-effacing in interviews, sounds like a guy you'd really enjoy talking about art and acting and plays and movies with, regardless of what he's done in his career.)

Don't get her started on the bad climbing...

Hah! Don't think you can name-drop me like that and not experience my wrath!

You have no idea -- after that movie came out I wrote up a 17K rant about the awfulness of it, and mailed it off to a dozen friends and relations. God, it was so bad.

On to the topic at hand: I find Paul Gross to be, like Ben Browder, deceptively attractive. By which I mean he looks like a very ordinary guy, if one blessed with a symmetrical face, and you have to be watching him for a while to get how truly talented and subversive and positively twisted he really is. (And I think he's pretty hot, too...)

I really should like Farscape it's got all the elements for me to like it but...I just...there's no click.

Don't feel alone in this phenomenon. On paper Alias is tailor-made for my tastes, but somehow I never managed to get into it.

... but Fraser might as well be able to control wormholes for all the chance and coincidence that swirls around him. His Dad shows up a lot, too.

Hmm. Y'know, the elder Mr. Fraser really corresponds more to Harvey than the elder Mr. Crichton, albeit in a benevolent manner.

If Internet fandom had been around in 1969, Dick Sargent would have been burned alive. I don't even want to think what would have happened to Brian Forster.

I wonder what fan reaction to Patrick Troughton was back in the day?

Paul Gross

But I spend all my time wanting to rip his face off his skull, to remove the smug grin.

It's a gross psychological problem on my part, I'm aware. I just like for actors, like, to pretend they don't know a camera is looking at them, at least a tiny tiny percentage of the time.

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Sort of sad he can't use his own real name, though. Got to be irritating.

Um. why can't he? I always wondered why he changed it. 'Course I first knew Eric Braeden as Hans Gudegast (Rat Patrol), and I'm still wondering why bother changing, once one's reasonably known. I mean, national tv series, pretty well known.

Yep, Scruffy!Bashir (Alexander Siddig) was on MI-5 tonight and I got screencaps.

I'll post them tomorrow...I hope.

Heh. He got to say something about "do we need all this James Bond crap?"

Well, I thought it was funny.

Daniel, I thought it was a funny line, and the "Our Man Bashir" context never even crossed my mind until just now.

I adore adore adore "Our Man Bashir". The writers of DS9 so got the nature of the Star Trek phenomenon, and pop culture, and how their characters would define themselves in terms of 20th C ideas and so on. And then they had all these excellent actors to act their hearts out with those ideas. t sigh

Wrod. DS9 is my favouritest Trek ever.

And hey-- new thread! Hi, I was in Smallville because the fic and eight episodes has turned me into a Rosenbaum junkie; I know not of these Souths and Farspaces of which you speak. And yet I suspect that soon I shall know more.

The writers of DS9 so got the nature of the Star Trek phenomenon, and pop culture, and how their characters would define themselves in terms of 20th C ideas and so on. And then they had all these excellent actors to act their hearts out with those ideas.

Yes, and then came Voyager. shudder