Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25870409-20141214220030/@comment-25536775-20170515045051

Dan Fox wrote: For me it goes:

1. Robert Carlyle (No brainer) 2. Barbara Hershey (brings Cora to life so well it's breathtaking.) 3. Lana Parilla 4. Robbie Kay 5. Elizabeth Mitchell 6. Rebecca Mader/Victoria Smurfit (tossup for me) 7. Jaime Murray 8. Jennifer Morrison 9. Caroline Ford (Wanted more of her as Nimue) 10. Sam Witwer (That voice tho)

Honorable mentions of those who could've done better with more material: Colin O'Donoghue (I bet he could've nailed a breakdown if he was given one), Greg Germann (Very underdeveloped), Jared Gilmore (He seriously doesn't get much to do), Merrin Dungey (Also underveloped to a sad degree) and I'm on the fence about Neal's actor. I mean his big episode (Manhattan) showed a range of his acting but others including Milah's actress totally owned the episode. I also think he suffered from bad material.

The guy who played Liam II was meh for me and the guy who played Lancelot was too bland too.

Honestly, this show does have talented actors and actresses but I think a lot suffered from lack-luster/confusing writing. Still not an excuse, but it does go both ways.

Also a special shout-out to actor Michael Socha (Will Scarlett) who was totally justified in his interview response on the matter regarding his forgettable time on S4. He wasn't even that harsh either. He said it how it was.

I think it's an... interesting choice to include Ford in here. She was really underrated, mostly because evryone wants to forget 5A. She could've been the breakthrough that Mader was if it hadn't been for, y'know, the fact that 5A pissed off half the fandom and a decent size of the GA.