T'Pau

[Asso]

Um WOW you really don't like Syrranites do you? I really loved the old geezer. Oh well to each his own. I think T'Pau was WAY too young in ENT it made no sense. But yeah she did haughty, self-righteous, zealot religous teen well.

I had several problems with the Vulcan arc, many of them were down to sheer stupidity of the script.

1. There was an unobstructed cave entry in their camp, yet in two years no one had an idea to take a look. Those people surely had a perception issue.

2. For a bunch of Surakian peace lovers, they were quite healthily armed I would say

3. T'Les, what the hell was that woman doing. Sells off her daughter into a forced marriage to regain a post that she knows she'll lose again anyway, because the VHC is already starting to go after the Syrranites (that was a big WTF?? moment )

4. Syrran. He had years of time to look what that cave is for. SuperArcher gets his brain fried, wakes up and walks straight to where the Kir'Shara is (WTF the second ) Surely if Suraks waited for a grimy human to drop by, that Syrran dud wasn't what Surak had in mind for someone to find the Kir'Shara

5. Syrran again. That dude was running around the desert making Sehlat noises, how the hell did he know what V'Las was up to. The two weren't exactly pub buddies. Just another lame plot to paint a big fat S on Archers chest again.

Coming back to the original topic of T'Pau's bitchyness. If I was confined to a ruin in the desert, surrounded by such a dimwitted bunch of fanatics, I'd get bitchy like hell as well and my hairdo would look a whole lot more messed up, too.

I share your thoughts, also about the hairdo, even if I don't have personally this problem.

[WarpGirl]

Well while I have the obsessive tendency to pick apart things like that oddly enough I didn't feel the urge to do so on the Vulcan Arc. I mean yeah I agree with you about most of those things, but I thought the good outweighed the bad. I don't mind T'Pau's personality, I mean she was always a cold fish. But I hated the fact she was so young, at least make her around T'Pol's age! The actresses were so close in age you couldn't believe she was so young. Oh and as you get to know me you'll see I blast episodes harder than that. Ususally the ones people love the most.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

At least they should have had the actress speak with Celia Lovsky's very distinct accent.

[Escriba]

My theory is that the young T'Pau was talking Vulcan and Archer was hearing her through the translator, thus no accent. While in TOS she was speaking English by herself, with understable accent.

What? It's my theory and I see it totally logic!

[WarpGirl]

Hey I'll go with that theory. Makes perfect rational sense.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

My theory is that the young T'Pau was talking Vulcan and Archer was hearing her through the translator, thus no accent. While in TOS she was speaking English by herself, with understable accent.

Or rather Archer understood her Vulcan, what with the benefits of having Surak's katra in his head and all.

I still would've liked to hear the accent though...

[WarpGirl]

OK I have always been confused about one thing with the UT and that is how come you're only hearing English and not the native language all at once?

[Alelou]

That's just one of the great conventions that prevents science fiction TV shows from getting too ploddingly realistic. Like the way the ships always make noise in space, or the shows completely ignore the inconvenient parts of the theory of relativity, or the way there's this incredible density of populations and planets with a neverending supply of convenient aliens, or the way the ship's babe never wears the same uniform everyone else does, or the way a red-blooded human male isn't actually repelled by a woman with green-tinged mucous membranes and a weird copper smell...

[WarpGirl]

WOW! OK...