Zev or Xev
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So, I’m mostly a lurker here, but I just had to get a second opinion on this … ok, so last night, I was watching Eating Pattern on SciFi and I realized that it seemed like Kai and Zev had chemistry from the moment they met — and he seemed to really love her (I mean, there were subtle signs), but he never seemed to warm up to Xev in quite the same way. Anyone else agree? Any thoughts on this matter?
I think that this is mostly due to character changes in the concept of Kai between the first and second seasons. I’ve noticed that in the first 4 films, Kai is a bit more emotional (for lack of a better term) in general than in the subsequent seasons. It’s almost as if McManus had a completely different approach in playing him in the films. If you look at his approach to, and treatment of, Zev in the first 2 episodes of Season 2 (“Mantrid” and “Terminal”), it’s similar to the way he treats Xev in the following eps. In the first 4 films, he’s quite a bit more intense about everything (and his acting is similar to the way he portrayed “posessed Kai” in “Mantrid”). In Season 2, he’s *much* more detatched and impersonal. In Seasons 3-4, he seems to be easily annoyed, for some reason. That’s just my take on it.
–Aleck