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Basically, yet another crummy guest-role in another SF show by an ex-Trek actor. Think Marina Sirtis with dodgy Russian-stroke-Tottenham accent in Stargate>. Michael Dorn, Michelle Forbes, Christ knows who else in The Outer Limits. There are others.
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I feel sorry for Marina Sirtis in a way because when she got the role of Deanna Troi, she probably got it because of her looks. Now that Trek is finished, she now has to show that she can act....which for her would probably be more difficult than any of the labours of Hercules.
I saw her on Casualty (a TV show here in UK for the non Brits) a couple of months ago, and she was crap! I hope she's saved her money from the Trek days anyway. Barring that, she could always become the Spurs mascot and travel with the team I s'pose.
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Her looks?
What you disagree?
She was actually on casualty?
Yeah, a couple of months ago. She played a politician who was having an affair with a local businessman. The hotel they're doing the wild thing in burns, and they have to get out. She spends the rest of the episode worrying about whether the press will find out. Decent episode because of the rest of the storylines, but her acting lacked greatly. She never was very good anyway. Remember her "Do you think you have the monopoly on loss" speech to Riker in Gambit? Truly cringeworthy.
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I did feel she was trying to cover up the Tottenham whine a little and speak a little more, how shall we say, normal. Her own accent did come to the fore a couple of times though, especially when she had to raise her voice.
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On a related topic, did any of you see Diagnosis Murder after Neighbours today? It was a pseudo-X-Files-hypen-piss-take thingy. I think. With a conspiracy. BUT!
It had:
Wil Wheaton Majel Barret Grace Lee Whitney George Takei Walter Koenig
BUT! That's not the best news. Guess who's gonna be in an upcoming episode:
*Zorak Voice* Kulggman!
Yup! Quincy's gonna be in it. Playing...Quincy! Oh, be still my heart!
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Naah, I'm in uni at the moment so I couldn't watch it, and I've also made a point of not watching it. In the first year, the girls were forever watching these cop shows; Quincy, Petrocelli, Burke's Law etc etc. Any fondness I had for these shows quickly disappeared during the first year.
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Erm. That ep of "Diagnosis" aired quite a WHILE ago. You guys really DO have a delay in US TV, don't you?
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No, "Diagnosis: Murder" was shown here a few years ago. It's just that afternoon weekdays TV (before the kids get home) has become a haven for old TV detective shows - Quincy, Columbo, Petrocelli, Banacek, and Diagnosis: Murder.
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But are these episodes of D:M from the current season?
Yeah, we did used to get US shows often months delayed. Now, it depends on their popularity, since I'm guessing it costs more to buy them immedietly. So, Friends is about a dozen episodes in on digital channel E4, and starting on tererestrial TV in a couple of weeks. Buffy and Angel are usually only a couple of weeks behind, and sometimes get shown only a couple of days after the US showing.
Unfortunatly, lots of people have failed to see the brilliance of Diagnosis: Murder (and Quincy), so they don't feel the need to buy it so quickly. It's in a niche slot.
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Yep, and we all walk around like someone from the Ministry of Silly Walks, reciting the dead parrot sketch and then singing SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM!.....
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