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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Raw Cadet: [QB] My beef is not with Tom Hardy, per se, and I certainly would not prefer the role of Schinzon (sp?) be played by a less accomplished, but bigger-named, actor. My problem is that the part calls for a twenty-something year old actor to begin with. I have not read any of the supposed scripts, so perhaps my perceived problem is explained in them, or will be in the movie, but why would the Picard clone be in his twenties? Twenty years "ago" the Romulans had no contact with the Federation, so who cloned Picard? Now, I would not get my panties in a bunch if a story involved secret, nobody-else-found-out-about-it Romulan contact with the Federation during the time period in question, but why would such contact involve cloning Picard? How did the Romulans know he would be a valuable captain to clone? Or is/was it standard Romulan operating procedure to clone all Starfleet captains? And if the story suggests Picard was cloned during "The Next Generation" timeframe, or later, and the clone's ageing was accelerated, why did it stop at twenty? Of course, if accelerated-then-stopped-ageing is, indeed, the case, the producers and writer are entitled to come up with whatever cockamamie reason they want to explain Schinzon's age. However, I submit it might have made more sense to accelerate the clone's age to match Picard's and allowed Patrick Stewart to play the role. We know Stewart can act, and he probably would have relished playing "evil" Picard. Also, with all due respect to Tom Hardy, Patrick Stewart is another man who went through the process described above by The_Tom, so, while Hardy might be highly trained, and gifted with great potential, Patrick Stewart has that and experience, and I find it hard to picture him and any young actor matching wits as equals on screen. Again, I do not mean to slight Hardy as much as to point out the incongruity of pitting a young, relatively inexperienced actor against a talented veteran and then expecting the audience to buy them as equals, two sides of the same coin. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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