where’s mantrid ? (bit like where’s wally?)
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Originally posted by bonnee:
the fact that scheduling conflicts might have impacted on the writing/production, though, really sucks, and is another indication of salter street allowing the ‘soul’ of the show to be sold out to the shadow of its former self. watching what they did to fifi was really lame – he was so striking in 3 and incredibly wasted in 4. what was his excuse – appearing in a remake of def com 4?
Tell me, just how are scheduling problems evidence of Salter “selling out?” They couldn’t get Dieter Laser for this season. He had prior commitments. How is that Salter’s fault? What would you suggest that they have done instead? Kidnap him? You could argue that, after they used Dieter so effectively in Season 2, that they “sold out” by wasting him in just one episode in Season 3. Jeff Pustil’s appearance in “Xevivor” serves the same purpose that Dieter’s role in “K-Town” did: to show the crew that (besides Prince), people from their past are showing up with some regularity. Other than that, neither Jeff nor Dieter did much else in their respective roles. In “K-Town,” the former Mantrid just walks around a lot, makes a few faces, eats a bug, and fiddles with Kai’s rods. You could argue that Salter “sold out” in Season 3 by wasting Louise Wischermann in one throwaway episode appearance. You could argue that Salter’s been “selling out” since episode 2.3 because scheduling conflicts wouldn’t allow Eva Habermann to appear as Zev.
I mean, I don’t want to speak for anyone else, but I think your point has long since been made clear to anyone with a pair of eyes: you don’t like Season 4. I get it. That’s fine. You’re entitled to your opinion. But to drive your point deeper and deeper into the ground just becomes tiresome after a while. You’re not saying anything new, except that now you’ve thrown in vague accusations of “greed” and “selling out” that have no basis in *anything* other than the fact that you don’t like this season’s episodes.
–Aleck