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« on: May 09, 2012, 03:01:22 AM »
Last time Karlen was an anticlimax for me, but this time, Karlen seems just as potentially scary as Hall, with the added benefit that you sense that there's interesting stuff going on beneath the surface. I said Hall's acting was good, but now I think that it was good for portraying some typical dime-a-dozen repellant punk, with notrhing else going on inside. If James Hall's version of Willie had come and gone from Collinsport in a matter of a few days, I'd have said he did a perfectly good job. You need Karlen for a three dimensional character, though.
One handicap for the viewer may be that we didn't see Karlen nearly raping Carolyn, so Karlen can't compete with Hall in meanness in our minds, even though JK might have acted it better.
The Barnabas portrait has a pinhead....No redo scene where we can compare the two Willie actors, as I was expecting. Is Mrs. Johnson down to one paycheck now?
Liz should be on her knees begging Burke's forgiveness on behalf of the family, now. She should be inviting him to dinner, and giving him a better seat than Roger. She should be racking her brain trying to come up with adequate ways of making it all up to Burke. Maybe Liz is still reeling at the thought that anyone would dare compete freely with her in the sardine business.
Schizoid Burke: "If anyone does her [Liz] in, I want it to be me." Lame. How about, "Vicki might get hurt."?