Saturday, 6 May 2006





James Aylett said...

It's usually not strictly the agent's fault - it's often just SAG rules, as I understand it. Note that if they don't have a speaking role, they can be left off the credits (there's an episode of Angel where Juliet Landau isn't credited because they carefully arranged for her to appear at the end of the episode and not say anything). It is, however, incredibly annoying, and I do wish SAG would just be more sensible about things. There are situations where producers have chosen not to bring back a character in a shock twist precisely because it wouldn't actually be a shock twist - which doesn't serve the actors at all well.

Not that SAG is anything like Equity in how well it represents its members, oh no.

James Lark said...

As a Doctor Who fan I've learned to keep my eyes tightly closed until about a minute into any episode of anything. So as to avoid the announcement, say, "Doctor Who and the Dalek that Surprisingly Appears in a Surprising Place at the End of Episode One: episode one".

Of course, in its new format I've had to start quickly switching off the TV as soon as the final credits begin, so as to avoid "Next week on Doctor Who: the Doctor IS alive after all, and here's the rest of the story's surprises truncated into twenty seconds!"