The whole "bad acting/wooden acting" thing is, for the most part, something that came out of a lot of unfair (in my view) criticisms of the show, because we're not doing hysterics, not doing "here's all of our character's history in five seconds," and not playing archetypes; they are people who you have to get to know. And in some cases, it was just to find something to slam. Same thing happened to many of the early reviews of TNG, and many of the net discussions of TNG. It just becomes something everybody repeats, a shibboleth, something they can throw into the pot without fully understanding what they're saying. jms |
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