1CSIMfan said:
I'm sorry BlueSmurfette but I consider this bashing:
And as I said... nothing I've said has had the
intent of "bashing" anyone, but I will restrain from that;
although I guess it's more unfortunate that Anna cannot be expressed the same politeness in kind by those who continually bash her.
I respect your opinions on how you feel about Anna/Lindsay but I think you should also respect the opinions of those of us who don't like her.
IMO, calling us idiots and berating the mods shows no respect and goes against the intent of this thread.
To my defense, I didn't call you idiots, I said I can't understand why you are being such idiots...calling people idiots and trying to understand why people are acting in such a way are different by many leaps and bounds, just the same as your saying you don't hate Lindsay/Anna, you dislike her (although to strongly dislike someone or something is but one definition of the word "hate").
As for Anna, Carmine, or any of the others coming into the threads (which some of them do) and being offended, I doubt it. Name one famous person that every single person loved. There isn't one. They're actors. If they can't take criticism, then they aren't gonna make it far in the acting world.
I know of a number of actors whom find the kind of talk that's going on about Anna, to be really offensive. And if you don't care about how the actors might feel...after all, you yourself already said that if they can't take the criticism, then they aren't going to make it far in the acting world...well, what about their families, their friends?
And, just going back to criticism for just one more moment...
Criticism would be like someone saying they think the color pink doesn't look very befitting on an elephant, that perhaps it should try red, instead.
Ridiculing is them saying the color pink on an elephant makes them want to throw rotten donuts at it, send it off to beauty school and pray to God it learns how to paint it's toenails correctly because five different colors really is *that* hideous on it.
Jaer:
What do you think the Oscars are? Really, darlin', JDonne has put it several times more eloquently than I, but I would not accept poor and shoddy service from a waiter, a milkman or a hairdresser, why should an actor be any better? Were this a one woman show with Lindsay the star it would already have been cancelled.
I guess at this point I just wonder what it is that makes you (and the others in this thread) such a great judge of Anna, or any other actor's, acting ability? Are you all in charge of casting agencies? Are you directors? Actors yourselves?
Until you have many long years of experience in these fields, I don't think it's fair to say what you are about Anna, who works her ass off playing the role she does.
And backing it up to the country-girl stuff....Anna would just be working with the material given to her. There are cliff notes in the scripts that tell her she needs to act a certain way, the director himself will tell her how he wants the scenes played out.
And as for Anna and Carmine's chemistry...it is superb. When I'm watching the show, I really feel as though I'm watching real people acting out these scenes. Real people stammer, real people have the emotions the pair of them show....and the flirtation placed in each episode where it is, is like a breath of fresh air.
But then I guess...you all know more about body language and the chemistry between characters who play out feelings for each other than the majority of the fandom that can clearly see it between Danny and Lindsay.
And I guess you must also know Carmine really well to say that he isn't into the flirting scenes with Anna...did he tell you this himself, or is it merely conjecture?
