Yep Val brought a bit of charisma and irreverence to something that would have been a bit too dry and dense for many. He was always good as the rougish sort. Without him, even if they’d made no other changes. It would have been a hard sell.
Val was amazing, but the problem with the new series wasn’t the actors, it was the writing. It could have worked if they had better writers. In fact, I feel like you could tell when different writers and directors were responsible for the episodes or scenes. It was occasionally good, but the shitty parts ruined the show.
It didn’t help that bigots were predisposed to hate the diversity and LGBTQ+ inclusiveness. I’m not one to ever complain about a show being “woke,” but the terrible writing made it impossible to defend the choices made with the characters.
Yep Val brought a bit of charisma and irreverence to something that would have been a bit too dry and dense for many. He was always good as the rougish sort. Without him, even if they’d made no other changes. It would have been a hard sell.
Val was amazing, but the problem with the new series wasn’t the actors, it was the writing. It could have worked if they had better writers. In fact, I feel like you could tell when different writers and directors were responsible for the episodes or scenes. It was occasionally good, but the shitty parts ruined the show.
It didn’t help that bigots were predisposed to hate the diversity and LGBTQ+ inclusiveness. I’m not one to ever complain about a show being “woke,” but the terrible writing made it impossible to defend the choices made with the characters.
the show was awful overall but probably the best part was Amar Chadha-Patel’s character which was essentially the mad martigan replacement.