How Tv works: Ten of the most appealing characters on TV
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The TV Guide channel recently ran a countdown of the sexiest guys on television, but the people acting the parts, it can be argued, aren't as important as the characters they play-- that's who the fans are watching each week, and that's who makes them famous, whether it's one defining role, such as Tom Selleck's Magnum PI, or ...
General Jack O'Neill (Stargate SG-1): One of the first people to step off the planet by way of the Stargate, and leader of the first team commissioned to do it as their job (and by the way? Coolest. Job. Ever.), Jack is tough, sarcastic, silly, much more complex than he lets on, a survivor, and stubborn enough to bring down an ancient alien empire. Mixed in with Richard Dean Anderson's ability to convey very deep emotion with the smallest facial changes, and his equal loves for his resident brain Samantha Carter and pie, and he comes out as both kick-ass and endearing.
John Crichton and Aeryn Sun (Farscape): The character of John Crichton could easily have been made into an idiot-- just read some of the novelizations so see how easily-- but this fish out of it's galaxy is doing his damnedest to make do with what he has, to use his weird humanness to survive in an even weirder place that seems to much more vivid than Earth ever did, and to help a lost and rejected soldier find the good side she'd always avoided. Aeryn, on the other hand, is abandoned by her people and forced to learn a new life, and that gives us this great arc of figuring out everything about love, friendship, self-reliance, and who you are in the face of giant empires. This is one of those couples that stand alone as well as together, and that makes them amazing.
The entire cast of Firefly: It would be crazy to separate them out here, and they'd fill most of this list, anyway. They work together, shining in the very human interactions in the very strange situations they find themselves in, dragging their histories behind them like banners. Even before we get their back stories, we understand that there are histories we don't know informing all their reactions-- Mal's reluctance to get close to people, Zoe's toughness, Wash's flippancy, Kaylee's enthusiasm, Jayne's bullishness, River's lunacy and Simon's overprotectiveness and Book's calm, Inara's grace. All of it has a reason, and even in those short thirteen episodes, we get to see that they're there, even if we don't fully know what they are. It's a credit to the acting as well as the writing, and it's a damn shame it never got renewed, but we fans already knew that, too.
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http://www.examiner.com/x-11396-Jack...aracters-on-TV
EXCERPT:
The TV Guide channel recently ran a countdown of the sexiest guys on television, but the people acting the parts, it can be argued, aren't as important as the characters they play-- that's who the fans are watching each week, and that's who makes them famous, whether it's one defining role, such as Tom Selleck's Magnum PI, or ...
General Jack O'Neill (Stargate SG-1): One of the first people to step off the planet by way of the Stargate, and leader of the first team commissioned to do it as their job (and by the way? Coolest. Job. Ever.), Jack is tough, sarcastic, silly, much more complex than he lets on, a survivor, and stubborn enough to bring down an ancient alien empire. Mixed in with Richard Dean Anderson's ability to convey very deep emotion with the smallest facial changes, and his equal loves for his resident brain Samantha Carter and pie, and he comes out as both kick-ass and endearing.
John Crichton and Aeryn Sun (Farscape): The character of John Crichton could easily have been made into an idiot-- just read some of the novelizations so see how easily-- but this fish out of it's galaxy is doing his damnedest to make do with what he has, to use his weird humanness to survive in an even weirder place that seems to much more vivid than Earth ever did, and to help a lost and rejected soldier find the good side she'd always avoided. Aeryn, on the other hand, is abandoned by her people and forced to learn a new life, and that gives us this great arc of figuring out everything about love, friendship, self-reliance, and who you are in the face of giant empires. This is one of those couples that stand alone as well as together, and that makes them amazing.
The entire cast of Firefly: It would be crazy to separate them out here, and they'd fill most of this list, anyway. They work together, shining in the very human interactions in the very strange situations they find themselves in, dragging their histories behind them like banners. Even before we get their back stories, we understand that there are histories we don't know informing all their reactions-- Mal's reluctance to get close to people, Zoe's toughness, Wash's flippancy, Kaylee's enthusiasm, Jayne's bullishness, River's lunacy and Simon's overprotectiveness and Book's calm, Inara's grace. All of it has a reason, and even in those short thirteen episodes, we get to see that they're there, even if we don't fully know what they are. It's a credit to the acting as well as the writing, and it's a damn shame it never got renewed, but we fans already knew that, too.
REST AT LINK ABOVE
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