| 6ixStringJack: I think you're ahead of me. I forgot it was Wild Bill that was in the show. I thought it was Billy the Kid. He might have been in there at some point too. I can only name 3 characters by name after all these years. Calamity Jane, Schweringen (the bar owner/most badass character in the show) and Doc the doctor. I know Timothy Oleyphant is the "star" but I couldn't even tell you his character's name, or that of his 2nd in command, or even the woman he was on-again/off-again with. Oh... and Pinkerton. But we got massively screwed out of that character and the battle that should have taken place instead of that movie a decade too late. |
| Brenda: You are a head of me then. All I knew was that Wild Bill was killed. Might have known it was in a saloon. There's a scene of his killing in "Little Big Man". I didn't much about the first character and the second one was sort of a crumb. I saw movie and yeah as I remember it wasn't great. |
6ixStringJack: Interesting. I know I knew all that at some point when I was watching the show. I really liked his character and was sad to see him go early on, even though he wasn't one of the "good" guys. I really do have to give that show another watch one day and finally get around to watching that disappointing movie that came out 10 years later than it should have.  |
| 6ixStringJack: Interesting. I know I knew all that at some point when I was watching the show. I really liked his character and was sad to see him go early on, even though he wasn't one of the "good" guys. I really do have to give that show another watch one day and finally get around to watching that disappointing movie that came out 10 years later than it should have. |
| Brenda: Yeah, like I said I recognized him more as the Right Hand guy than the one behind the gun taking out Wild Bill. The character wasn't famous and according to what I read about the real Jack McCall, his reason for shooting Wild Bill was revenge. Killing his brother. Not unusual in those days for a lot of men in the West to be unkempt unless they were army or had a business. Had to be respectable looking in both occupations. |
| 6ixStringJack: Right, right... He was Right Hand to the BIG Big Bad of the entire show at the end the 2nd time he was on the show. So he wasn't a famous gunslinger in the 1st role, but he shot Wild Bill Hickok. Almost unrecognizable if you weren't looking at photos of both performances right next to each other. So much facial hair and dirt on that first character he might as well have been a Klingon. |
| Brenda: I looked the actor up and I remember a character shooting Wild Bill Hickok but not the actor doing it. *L* I remember his second character better from the mining company. |
| Brenda: Yeah, and like I said some shows did. Huh. Maybe I should look him up. |
| Brenda: Yeah, and like I said some shows did. Huh. Maybe I should look him up. |
| Brenda: I haven't see the Sarah Connor Chronicles. You are right about me seeing Deadwood a while ago. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't remember names on the show anymore, but his early character in Deadwood, if I remember right, was a card playing, gambling, dirty gunslinger. May have been one of the famous ones in real life even... not sure. But when he came back a few seasons later he was like the Right Hand of the Big Bad and was clean shaven and always wearing a suit. I think me or my brother did figure that one out and told the other "Hey! Wait a minute." when we knew it was the same actor back for a totally different role, but it took us a while to realize it. |
| 6ixStringJack: Oh. Yeah. I could see pretty easily recycling some good character actors in a show like Babylon 5 or Star Trek/Wars when they're in full alien costume for one role and human in another. But I got to tgive it to Dillahunt for being so good at his job that I didn't realize one of my early favorite bad-guy characters in the show being killed ended up coming back as another great bad-guy a season or 3 later. |
| 6ixStringJack: If you saw Sarah Connor Chronicles you've seen him before. I thought you'd seen Deadwood a while back, am I wrong about that? |
| Brenda: Don't recognize the name Garret Dillahunt course that doesn't mean I haven't seen him in something. That happened on Babylon 5 with a British actor called John Vickery. He played Neroon a Minbari of the Warrior caste and before that human with the a department in Earth government. |
| Brenda: Maybe not and I'm sure not every show keeps a running list of actors they can call back for other parts. Just something I notice is all. |
| 6ixStringJack: The one time I remember that happening was on Deadwood when they brought Garret Dillahunt back a few seasons after he died as a completely different character. I don't think I even realized it the first time I watched that it was the same actor since it was a few years later and the 2 characters were so different. I never watched the movie, but he was in there too as a 3rd character. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't think they did that with Once Upon a Time, or at least they didn't make a habit of it. They had so many characters that it's probably almost certain they reused somebody. But I don't think they had any shortage of actors or actresses to find for parts on that one. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't think they did that with Once Upon a Time, or at least they didn't make a habit of it. They had so many characters that it's probably almost certain they reused somebody. But I don't think they had any shortage of actors or actresses to find for parts on that one. |
| Brenda: Huh. Well, Bill Mumy started on Lost in Space when he was a kid and as an adult went onto play Lennier on B5. |
| Brenda: That happens too. Just when you get to like a character or a certain actor on a tv. They bail. |