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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 3666018" data-attributes="member: 2572">I disagree and think that TV especially merges actors and thier roles far more than other media. In a play the roles are written to be played by anyone (with very few exceptions), in movies the roles are primarily written for anyone to play the part. But even in movies this starts to break down with comedies since a share of them are written for one comedian in particular and just don't work for others. Plays and movies also have only about 2 hours of time total to work on the characters and so only a limited amout of that character can be based on the actor unless written specifically for the actor. Even in long series (5 movies) this comes out to 10 hours of character and actor to find syncronicity. Now with TV things get different. Characters are written generically at first so various actors can play them and this often shows in the first few episodes of a series and sometimes as long as the first year. But the longer a show runs the more a character starts to be written for the actor and less for character. Writers begin to see what an actor can pull off or not and start writting the characters to wiork to the actors strengths (well hopefully as many a failed show often demonstrates). This is then developed over a 100 or more episodes and over that time the characters become less generic and more tied to particular actors.Well that is a poor choice to use as I disagree with the notion that Shater can play any role at all<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. Kidding aside TJ hooker has sometimes been considered Kirk as a cop. His current job in Boston Legal works because Shatner as an actor is an old man now and doesn't resemble his Kirk years anymore. This also only deals with "Shatner is Kirk" which is his ability to play other roles as oppsed to "Kirk is Shatner" which covers other peoples ability to play the Kirk role. I will take this as I hope you intended and not as it reads. Just because I think certain roles are defined by certain actors and just because I see someone in a movie and am reminded that they played something else elsewhere (to varying degres of distraction) that in no way means that I in any way lack the ability to diferentiate reality from fiction or one fictional character from another.It needs to be beyond good in my opinion. Hollywood has over the last decade had a really poor track record producing movies based on old TV shows (which is different than making movies as an expansion of a series using the same cast). Sure they might make something of a profit, but there has been nothing released that I can remember as good or doing a TV show justice. As a fan of 450+ hours of Star Trek I really don't want to see Star Trek suffer this same fate.</blockquote>

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