best minor characters
POSTED BY: est120
UPDATED: Sunday, April 24, 2005 09:40
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I'm surprised that the Sherriff from Paradiso in "The Train Job" hasn't been mentioned. I thought he was great! Especially that little touch of going over and letting that guy in the jail cell have a drag off his smoke...
There was the informer demon on Angel...Merl. I thought he was great...Also, according to the criteria mentioned, wouldn't Lindsay, Lilah, and most anyone from Wolfram and Hart be up for mentioning...That would mean Gavin and Holland as well.
Over on Buffy...Let's see...Most anyone, and I know some of the principals did...who portrayed The First...most of them seemed like the were having a good time doing it. I know you said no credit sequences, and, even though he got his own, I thought Jonathon was one of the redeeming things about season 6. Of course, there's Principal Schneider and The Mayor(but, like the Wolfram and Hart gang, hardly minor characters...) Oh...and CLEM! How could I have forgotten about CLEM! Everytime he showed up in an episode, I would turn to my wife and say "Clem's da bomb!"
Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."
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Originally posted by manwithpez:
There was the informer demon on Angel...Merl. I thought he was great...Also, according to the criteria mentioned, wouldn't Lindsay, Lilah, and most anyone from Wolfram and Hart be up for mentioning...That would mean Gavin and Holland as well.
merl was pretty funny. such a greasy character but i felt bad when he got splattered over the wall. he was quite the simpleton but still a lot of fun to watch. he is kind of like those characters in police movies that the heroes go to see. the secret informer or the "i helped his brother out a long time ago" or the guy who owes one of the heroes a favor. they always say something like "i do this for you and we're even.".
gavin was pretty cool. his demise was pretty amusing. he was such a slave to guys like linwood murrow. of course, he was feeding his own ambition, trying to get the advantage. ironic he ends up as a mindless zombie. :\
holland manners as a character was neat though i kind of disagreed with the casting choice. the actor played it very well he just did not have quite the right look to me. not streamlined enough. he always looked a little rumpled. not really in keeping with the sharp look of other characters in the firm like hamilton, lilah and gavin. they were all so smartly dressed and looked more imposing on screen.
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What I really liked about Gavin was how much he had misunderstood Wolfram and Hart's mandate for Angel. Every mean thing he did to Angel Investigations, Lilah would have to go behind him and undo. I thought that was a nice touch...
Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."
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I know you said no credit sequences, and, even though he got his own, I thought Jonathon was one of the redeeming things about season 6.
He was great. And although Jonathon appeared repeatedly in the Superstar credits, Danny Strong's name didn't.
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Firefly: Would be Early.
Angel: The guy who owned the bookstore in season three and four I think it was. And the little Demon Midget Fred meets in that hole. He cracked me up!!
Buffy: Clem - what a guy! Also Willy was a pretty cool observation - you always get the guy who profits from the worst kinda scum.
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Firefly: Would be Early.
Angel: The guy who owned the bookstore in season three and four I think it was. And the little Demon Midget Fred meets in that hole. He cracked me up!!
Buffy: Clem - what a guy! Also Willy was a pretty cool observation - you always get the guy who profits from the worst kinda scum.
I love the above candidates,
and Zeek's suggestion of 'Anne' (I'm so happy they put her in the Ats finale, she was a wonderful character with real growth).
And Ethan Rayne definitely deserves a mention!
But I want to add Amy...even as a rat she was an interesting on-going minor character!
Actually I have trouble narrowing down the list;
I guess we can't include Jonathan, Andrew & Warren (who I will always love)?
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You'll probably consider this cheating but I think it's just a loophole:
On Angel I liked that Hamilton character played by um...what's his name again?
And on Buffy, Caleb was a pretty great villain. I think somebody named Fillman(sp?) played him...?
;-)
For Firefly, as already mentioned, Yo-Saf-Bridge rocked! I would have liked to have seen Niska and Badger interact...after all they moved in similar circles...
The Whedon machine does such a great job with characters that even the minor ones tend to have epic proportions.
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i completly agree about groo. he was not developed properly. i would have loved to have him come back in the end to help out with the black thorn or something.
Yeah, Groo. I wanted him to show up for the finale too.
Another one I always cheered for was Riley's compadre, Graham. Not turning to evil like Forest (or Riley) did was a reason to admire him. Always liked it when he would show up later, still with the government after all his unit had been through.
"Don't say 'ka' until you've tried it." Daniel Jackson
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One to remember is J. Woodward, who was an important element in BTVS "Conversations with Dead People," and even more important as the Fred-betraying Knox in Angel.
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If I can include recurring characters rather than minor, then I'd pick Faith. Not only is she my favourite recurring character on Buffy and Angel, but one of my favourite characters on any Whedon show. I also really loved Andrew and Jonathan.
If I'm just picking minor characters, then I'd choose Yo-Saf-Bridge and Badger.
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