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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
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Subject: re: re: Saavik
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 01:01:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 26 01:01:29 1985
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> 	Secondly, though it sounds strange, I thought Curtis was too flat
> [no, I don't mean *that*!] and unemotional. Vulcans, after all, aren't
> *without* emotions, they just control them. What makes Spock, Saavik,
> Sarek, et al. interesting is seeing the emotion seething just below the
> surface. If they were completely unemotional, they'd be boring. Anyways, I
> think Alley had just the right undercurrent of emotion in her portrayal of
> Saavik (I can't, for instance, see Curtis crying at Spock's funeral).
> 
> --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)
> 
I think jayembee hit the sucker right on the head here.  I'll go slightly
out on a limb here and talk a bit about the novelization;  Saavik is a
Romulan/Vulcan fusion.  As we all know, the Romulans are a bloodthirsty
and highly agressive race.  If you think Spock had a tough time living
up to the Vulcan ideal of logical precision, imagine what someone would
go through whose racial heritage was even bloodier and less rational
than us humans!  I think Alley captured this lightly integrated 
dichotomy almost perfectly -- there was a great deal more intensity
in her Saavik than in Curtis's.  As JB postulated, she was boring.


Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

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