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The heck . . . ?
Nov. 29th, 2009 09:48 pmSo it seems there's a full-on hate toward Natalie Morales going on at the USA White Collar boards. For the life of me, I cannot figure this out. From her very first appearance she suddenly started generating this overwhelming negativity, which has flabbergasted me completely. Not only have her acting and the character she's playing been criticized to death, but I went in there tonight and found her being referred to as "Agent Bug-Eyes." (!)
If she were a terrible actress hired strictly for her looks and dragging the show down, okay, I would get it. Been there, seen that, been driven up the wall by it. But this woman is a fully competent actress (can I get a witness, Middleman fans?) in a relatively small part. People have different tastes, it's true, but even if she were as bad as they say -- and that would take some doing; I doubt that even Tommy Wiseau could be as bad as that -- she still couldn't ruin the entire show. I think a few people are still mad that she replaced the actress from the pilot, whose name escapes me at the moment -- Marsha Something? -- but it's common knowledge that that actress had other commitments and left of her own accord. Same thing happened on Psych and lots of other shows. It's hardly Morales's fault.
The obvious explanation suggests itself to my mind -- the green-eyed monster, anyone? -- but I hesitate to believe it's something that silly and childish. Then again, "Agent Bug-Eyes" doesn't exactly scream maturity. Another possibility could be racism, I guess, but everyone seemed fine with Marsha Something, who's African-American, so that doesn't seem to make sense either.
I suppose I rattle on too much about a silly message board, and it's probably yet another sign that I need to get a life. But it's kind of sad, you know? There used to be such a great group of people on that board way back when, and we used to have such fun discussions. I don't know what happened to them all. I got away from posting there for a while, and now that I'm back, it's all "Monk + Natalie 4eva!!! DIE ALBRIGHT DIE!!!!!!!" on the one forum, and "Agent Bug-Eyes" on the other. At least the Psych forum seems to contain a few sane fans -- for now . . .
If she were a terrible actress hired strictly for her looks and dragging the show down, okay, I would get it. Been there, seen that, been driven up the wall by it. But this woman is a fully competent actress (can I get a witness, Middleman fans?) in a relatively small part. People have different tastes, it's true, but even if she were as bad as they say -- and that would take some doing; I doubt that even Tommy Wiseau could be as bad as that -- she still couldn't ruin the entire show. I think a few people are still mad that she replaced the actress from the pilot, whose name escapes me at the moment -- Marsha Something? -- but it's common knowledge that that actress had other commitments and left of her own accord. Same thing happened on Psych and lots of other shows. It's hardly Morales's fault.
The obvious explanation suggests itself to my mind -- the green-eyed monster, anyone? -- but I hesitate to believe it's something that silly and childish. Then again, "Agent Bug-Eyes" doesn't exactly scream maturity. Another possibility could be racism, I guess, but everyone seemed fine with Marsha Something, who's African-American, so that doesn't seem to make sense either.
I suppose I rattle on too much about a silly message board, and it's probably yet another sign that I need to get a life. But it's kind of sad, you know? There used to be such a great group of people on that board way back when, and we used to have such fun discussions. I don't know what happened to them all. I got away from posting there for a while, and now that I'm back, it's all "Monk + Natalie 4eva!!! DIE ALBRIGHT DIE!!!!!!!" on the one forum, and "Agent Bug-Eyes" on the other. At least the Psych forum seems to contain a few sane fans -- for now . . .
