Actor Growth

Over the past few weeks I have been having fun reading comments about the new shows and season premieres. In many cases I have seen what happens in the plot through work and it’s just so interesting being on the other side and viewing all these speculations. For example, today Stargate Universe premiered and I must say there are some die hard fans that sure have a creative imagination on what they think is going to happen.

You know what else I have come to realize too? IMDB can sure be a spoiler of sort. For example, in many cases it lists all of the episodes that are going to be shown. As well, it lists which cast is going to appear. Like with the show Smallville it looked like people were wondering if certain characters that died are going to come back. All they had to do is look at the cast list to see if the actor was going to appear again. This made me think how it is kind of hard to keep secrets on shows with the Internet huh?

Another thing that this is teaching me will probably be useful further down the road in my growth. Basically, reading people’s opinions of the shows. It was kind of surprising to see people blast certain actors in a mob mentality kind of way when they don’t enjoy the show overall even if they technically did their job fine.

So I guess an actor when you are at that point in your career things like this can help you where you should really consider say the director and writer’s reputation too as acting in a show or film that is not accepted very well can make you look bad despite your best efforts. Not exactly the same scenario, but I guess Jim Carrey acting in that Cable Guy movie is an example how a film can really drag down your worth as an actor if you view yourself as a commodity of sort.