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Jun. 30th, 2006 11:21 amI watched all the clips of David Hewlett's appearances on Kung Fu: the Legend Continues last night, and I noticed a few things:
1 - I should probably spend more time sleeping and less time watching this crap.
2 - Kung Fu is a truly, truly awful show.
3 - David Hewlett plays the coroner (Nicky) on the show, which means his job is to show up, be cute and adorable, and deliver all of the exposition. Which, as anyone who watches Atlantis knows, he's very good at. Of course, since this is Kung Fu, his exposition is something like:
"I've never seen anything like it. It's like they were...frightened. To death."
"I've never seen anything like it. It's like his blood actually froze."
"I've never seen anything like it. It's like he burned up...from the inside."
"I've never seen anything like it. It's like his throat was ripped out."
"I've never seen anything like it. It's like her life force was poisoned."
(This, by the way, is what led me to conclusion 2, above.)
What's interesting, though, is in season 1, David Hewlett is still in the young punk stage of his career. He's got the poofy eighties hair and is very clearly "hip." He keeps talking about his inability to get girls, but this is akin to the second Jimmy (Justin Whelan) on Lois and Clark complaining about not getting girls -- in the real world, a guy this adorable would not have a problem, but the producers would like to generate sympathy for the teen heart throb and think this is a way to make him endearing.
Anyway. David Hewlett pretty much stays this way through season 3.
Then I get to season 4. And suddenly I'm looking at a young Rodney McKay. He's not a cute little heart throb anymore, he's an asocial geek. Part of this is the haircut (goodbye to the pompadour), part of it is suddenly DH is talking a lot faster, gesturing a lot more with his hands, and stuttering. Then in his next appearance, he has a beard and has started wearing truly horrible clothes. David Hewlett turned into Grant Jansky right before my eyes. It was truly creepy.
I'm sure some of the creepiness was because I was watching all of this at 1 in the morning (see 1 above), but it's kind of cool to actually see over the course of a few episodes David Hewlett go from the young punk of his early roles to the mad scientist of his later roles. Even if it meant listening to the shittiest forensics I've ever heard.
1 - I should probably spend more time sleeping and less time watching this crap.
2 - Kung Fu is a truly, truly awful show.
3 - David Hewlett plays the coroner (Nicky) on the show, which means his job is to show up, be cute and adorable, and deliver all of the exposition. Which, as anyone who watches Atlantis knows, he's very good at. Of course, since this is Kung Fu, his exposition is something like:
"I've never seen anything like it. It's like they were...frightened. To death."
"I've never seen anything like it. It's like his blood actually froze."
"I've never seen anything like it. It's like he burned up...from the inside."
"I've never seen anything like it. It's like his throat was ripped out."
"I've never seen anything like it. It's like her life force was poisoned."
(This, by the way, is what led me to conclusion 2, above.)
What's interesting, though, is in season 1, David Hewlett is still in the young punk stage of his career. He's got the poofy eighties hair and is very clearly "hip." He keeps talking about his inability to get girls, but this is akin to the second Jimmy (Justin Whelan) on Lois and Clark complaining about not getting girls -- in the real world, a guy this adorable would not have a problem, but the producers would like to generate sympathy for the teen heart throb and think this is a way to make him endearing.
Anyway. David Hewlett pretty much stays this way through season 3.
Then I get to season 4. And suddenly I'm looking at a young Rodney McKay. He's not a cute little heart throb anymore, he's an asocial geek. Part of this is the haircut (goodbye to the pompadour), part of it is suddenly DH is talking a lot faster, gesturing a lot more with his hands, and stuttering. Then in his next appearance, he has a beard and has started wearing truly horrible clothes. David Hewlett turned into Grant Jansky right before my eyes. It was truly creepy.
I'm sure some of the creepiness was because I was watching all of this at 1 in the morning (see 1 above), but it's kind of cool to actually see over the course of a few episodes David Hewlett go from the young punk of his early roles to the mad scientist of his later roles. Even if it meant listening to the shittiest forensics I've ever heard.