Brent Spiner might be a seriously underrated actor. My two fav Data episodes are ‘A Fistful of Datas’ where Spiner is playing as multiple holodeck characters at once, and (forgot ep name) where he’s taken over by an entire alien civilization and he’s rapidly switching between multiple alien personalities. Watching Brent Spiner perform Data’s complex roles is a friggin’ master class in acting. Watching Data “glitch” mid sentance for example. Spiner is just incredible
He actually thinks the masks episode was one of his weaker episodes because he had almost no prep time. It’s basically all personalities he made up on the spot. But thats why he’s so great, because I never would have known.
The first handful of episodes, you could tell that spiner was trying to figure out how to play data. There’s something just … Off about his portrayal of the Android… It’s hard to describe.
But, to be blunt, there were a lot of things that were “off” about season 1…
Brent Spiner might be a seriously underrated actor. My two fav Data episodes are ‘A Fistful of Datas’ where Spiner is playing as multiple holodeck characters at once, and (forgot ep name) where he’s taken over by an entire alien civilization and he’s rapidly switching between multiple alien personalities. Watching Brent Spiner perform Data’s complex roles is a friggin’ master class in acting. Watching Data “glitch” mid sentance for example. Spiner is just incredible
The other episode is Masks.
Masaka is waking!
He actually thinks the masks episode was one of his weaker episodes because he had almost no prep time. It’s basically all personalities he made up on the spot. But thats why he’s so great, because I never would have known.
Brent was even pretty great in Enterprise no? As
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the incarcerated genius who “fathered” all the augment embryos
Not sure about that one film though
The first handful of episodes, you could tell that spiner was trying to figure out how to play data. There’s something just … Off about his portrayal of the Android… It’s hard to describe.
But, to be blunt, there were a lot of things that were “off” about season 1…
Yeah, that was pretty much everyone in Season 1. The whole show was trying to figure out how to be itself.
That’s weird. I’ve never really heard much criticism of season 1 before.
This may be a lie
Tasha Yar was pretty cool though