Some people have a stress ball…

… I have a Spock action figure.

Dudes, I took him out of his box, because I didn’t buy him for the potential zillions of dollars future generations might be able to reap from having a NIB Star Trek Movie Action Figure.  I bought him to sit – well stand, really – on my desk holding his phaser at the ready.  In my mind, he’s ready to blast the shit outta anyone who annoys me.  I tried to get him to kneel – picture the scene when Spock beams down to Vulcan despite the protests of pretty much everyone he rushes past on his way to the transporter – but he looked all akward, and the “man of action” effect was lost.

A lot of people asked me if I was going to start watching Heroes now, since I am such a huge fan of whatever-his-name-is-who-played-Spock-in-the-movie.  Um, what?  Who said I was a fan of that actor?  I never said that.  Clearly, these people who assumed that my fan-of-Spock-ness would transfer into fan-of-the-actor-who-played-Spock-ness are not on the same wavelength as I am. Or maybe I am the only person who can LOVE a character without giving a flying fig about the actor who played him/her.  That sounds harsh, I don’t mean that I harbour any negative feelings for the actor; more that I don’t know the actor.  I mean, this is a guy who was paid money to do a job, the job happened to be acting a particular role.  The thing is Zachary Quinto – yeah, I know I made it seem like I had no idea who the actor was, but he deserves his props, he did an excellent job –  is not actually Spock.  Now, if I was given the opportunity to get to know Zachary Quinto, maybe I would end up also loving him, maybe even as much as I love Spock.

Anyways, I would think that actors would appreciate fans who are able to draw a distinction between them as people and the characters they portray.  Particularly, actors who played snotty know-it-all teenagers back in the late 80’s.  Or deranged serial killers last fall.  Or really any less-than-savory role, somebody HAS to play the villain (or the dweeb – think of that Urkel kid).  Don’t hate the player, hate the game – or in this case, hate the role.

On another – slightly related – note, JMar told me the other day that Christopher Walken was on some list of most unattractive actors or some crap.  WTF?!?  Christopher Walken is definitely creepy-seeming, but he’s not ugly.  Holy Cow people who wrote this list, what’s the deal?!?

Just for fun, here’s a list of  other characters I love (in no partcular order) - I’m not going to tell you where they are from, you either love the same stuff as I do, or you don’t:

1. Dr Rodney McKay
2. Kaylee Frye
3. Mr Vincent Nigel-Murray
4. Lindsay Weir
5. The Doctor (10th incarnation)
6. Veronica Mars
7. Harry Kim

This is in no way a complete list.

No related posts.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.