Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
Yup. I liked her in the end. It seems to take a certain depth of actor to play "Ophelia" and perhaps requires a particularly insightful director for such a character to work within a story. I think one danger is the character stealing focus, upstaging others, if it is a particularly strong performance in a minor role and the main cast isn't up to being challenged. I don't feel that happened here. This may have been the kind of danger where it wasn't realized early enough that scenes where this character breaks could stick out like a sore thumb if not written carefully for the overall tone of the series, if not cast with a strong enough actor, or if the scenes weren't given enough time and care by the director in preparation of filming them and during the process. As I say, the actor or the writing of the character brought me back around by the end, perhaps with her last line in the series, but those "mental break" scenes after her loss just played hollow and made the tension building up in the later half of the series arc less powerful for me.
