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From: ahwatson@phoenix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Start Dreck: The Random Generation
Message-ID: <874@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 08:47:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 08:47:50 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 08:29:12 EDT
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Reply-To: ahwatson@phoenix.UUCP (Arthur H. Watson)
Organization: Princeton Univ. Computing and Information Technology
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In article <5789@ihlpa.ATT.COM> gadfly@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Gadfly) writes:
>--
>> ) (It wasn't a total waste, the scene with McCoy was well done)
>> ) Das Booter - Kitten with a whip
>> Are you out of your human mind?  Of all the useless and stupid
>> scenes, that one was the stupidest and most useless!!
>> 			Matt
>Stupid perhaps, but it was the best acted.  [reflecting on the show, not it]
>ken perlow         *****   *****

Acting is not something which can be decided in a vacuum.  
I  assert that even the "pain, sorrow" thing was better acted 
than the McCoy scene, because it had no character-related
obligations.  Recall the McCoy character of the original series, 
movies, books.  While he adopted a pose of curmudgeonry in order 
to side with human values without seeming like a wuss, he was 
obviously driven by a deep respect and passion for life of all 
kinds, even Spock's.  Contrast that with the McCoy of NG.  He 
sounded like bigotry personified.  He even got the stereotypical 
Klansman diction down in "I don't see no pointed ears, boy."  While 
the words might be plausible, the delivery is so removed from anything 
we might expect McCoy to have aged into as to make the scene grotesque.
Not to flame or anything.

-- 
-Arthur Watson
"I don't want to rule the world"