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« on: July 17, 2012, 02:50:27 PM »
Burke 2 has a different world view. Stodginess is his religion. He's all caught up in being the straight-arrow, while Burke 1 was a maverick. "Two" is a prosletizer or inquisitor for his religion of unimaginativeness too, guilting Vicki over and over for not being like him in this. "One" would have been bored out of his skull by the ordinariness Two needs.
I used to see the Blue Whale sparring scene with AG and J Frid, before I saw pre-Barnabas, and thought how anemic and yet aggressively unpleasant in general AG was, and was sure MR would have done it so much better. I suppose Burke One wouldn't have been a sort of aloof businessman, so some lines may not have fit, but Mitch would have been a lot more "there" than George, relatively speaking, even though Mitch was gradually less and less "there" himself as time went on.
One was sort of masquerading in a suit, and he always seemed too "big" for it, or too big to be confined by it. Two sleeps in his.