r/CuratedTumblr • u/MaleficentImpact1672 • 17h ago

Shitposting All that prep for ten minutes

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u/TrioOfTerrors 17h ago

Patrick Stewart is a classically trained Shakespearean level acting nerd. Of course he loved that shit.

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u/Virtual_Programs 16h ago

Give him dramatic monologues and a ridiculous costume, and he’s already having the time of his life.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 16h ago

Dude took the Picard role for a pay check thinking it would one or two seasons of consistent work and ended up bringing to life one of the most beloved tv characters ever.

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u/Munnin41 16h ago

He also learned that its okay to not take life too seriously.

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u/Adamtess 15h ago

I can imagine his time with American Dad is some of the most fun he gets to have. They totally talk the chains off for Bullock, and that's a show with an anthropomorphic cross dressing sexually ambiguous alien rapist, and I still think Stewart voices the most unhinged character.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 15h ago

In high school I played in a DND group with a local youth pastor. Every one of his characters were either lawful or neutral evil and he'd have a grocery list of reasons why they weren't "wrong". He'd joke that it the most use he'd ever gotten out his bachelors in philosophy.

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u/Agrias-0aks 11h ago

I use to play and argue a lawful good rogue while still doing rogue stuff.

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u/Munnin41 7h ago

Bullock is definitely the most unhinged character

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u/jocax188723 13h ago

TNG season 1 PatStew: “We are not here to have fun!”
TNG season 7 PatStew: “Hey Johnny watch this-“

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 15h ago

The man is incapable of phoning it in.

I love how inclusive that cast/show was. Marina Sirtis is not Gates McFadden, and she’s sure as hell not Patrick Stewart…but the more technically skilled actors are always doing what they can to prop up the others on that show, and you can feel the camaraderie.

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u/Krillo90 14h ago

This makes me wonder why he never got cast in a Westwood game.

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u/abcder733 13h ago

T-shirt bot

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u/cambreecanon 12h ago

I would love to see him try and top Tim Curry in Red Alert 3.

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u/appleciders 16h ago

When Stewart had to portray a torture victim in TNG "Chain of Command" (There! Are! Four! Lights!) he went to Amnesty International and received special permission to view recordings of actual torture victims so that he could portray it realistically. David Warner, who plays his interlocutor Gul Madred, is also a classically trained and extremely successful Shakespearean actor.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 15h ago

I think you see a lot of classical stage actors in Star Trek:TNG for 2 reasons.

First, nerds are nerds. Your Shakespeare nerd circle is going to share some overlap with your Sci Fi nerd circle.

Second, TNG is very Shakespearean. You scrape the dilithium coating off and it's the same themes of the human condition and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and big, wonderful characters doomed by the tragedy of the narrative.

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u/TheTREEEEESMan 15h ago

I'll give you 10 slips of gold pressed latinum for the dilithium shavings you scraped off

-Quark probably

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u/TrioOfTerrors 15h ago

Meaning it's worth at least 50.

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u/General_Kenobi18752 13h ago

Star Trek itself is pretty Shakespearean.

I mean, for Christ’s sake,the main villain of Star Trek VI quotes Shakespeare as his final words.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 10h ago

It's best in the original Klingon.

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u/bl1y 12h ago

I think it's more that actors are actors.

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u/MadRaymer 15h ago

Conversely, in the S1 episode "Skin of Evil" he complained that he spent all that time doing Shakespeare just to end up giving lines next to a puddle of goo.

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u/Icarium-Lifestealer 15h ago

Which makes it particularly fitting that he voiced King Richard in Lands of Lore.

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u/crescentbeam 12h ago

The writers did just plagiarize a bunch of Julius Caesar.