If, like us, you watch a bunch of middlng and bad scifi and the couple of good canadian dramas that make it over the border in this neck of the woods, you start recognizing a lot of the same actors, including a fewwho might actually be good. (For all I know even bad american shows pay a bunch more than the top canadian series, and it's for damn sure they don't require as much work.)
One day the disposable partner of a rogue vice cop, the next day the leader of primitive warriors on an episode of Andromeda that makes Star Trek's treatment of The Race Question look sophisticated. Or one day a top homicide detective, the next a good doctor or a bad cameraman on Stargate. (The transition from fearless vampire lover to leading parliamentarian takes a little longer, it seems.) Even the random read-from-the-computer people keep showing up again and again. (Of course, in a country that's mostly howling arctic wastes how many actors do you expect to see?)
There's one guy who's appeared as a villain on both Stargate and Andromeda, but I have yet to see him in anything echt canadian. I don't even know if I should look.
Posted by wallich at February 28, 2004 12:59 AM