{"id":1400,"date":"2009-07-31T14:02:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T13:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2009-07-31T14:02:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T13:02:43","slug":"heresy-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2009\/07\/heresy-expanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Heresy Expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To describe someone as &#8220;the best actor in TNG&#8221; obviously falls into the category of damning with faint praise. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>What prompted my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2009\/07\/30\/heresy\/\">previous post<\/a> was going to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waitingforgodottheplay.com\/\">Waiting for Godot<\/a> on Wednesday, this production has a very impressive cast list: Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ronald Pickup and Simon Callow. And it struck me that Patrick Stewart looked a little uncomfortable and stiff, in particular with the physical comedy aspects of the production.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, <a href=\"http:\/\/very-true-thing.livejournal.com\/186405.html?thread=226853#t226853\">what Linnie said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would sit down and watch Patrick Stewart in almost anything (but I gave up on Eleventh Hour after one episode &#8216;cos it was just dull) but there&#8217;s a certain type of part he does very, very well and outside of that he&#8217;s still good but not the greatest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To describe someone as &#8220;the best actor in TNG&#8221; obviously falls into the category of damning with faint praise. \ud83d\ude09 What prompted my previous post was going to see Waiting for Godot on Wednesday, this production has a very impressive cast list: Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ronald Pickup and Simon Callow. And it struck me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[214,232,250],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tv","tag-star-trek","tag-theatre","tag-waiting-for-godot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-mA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}