Posted by
Yuchtar-2 on
May 17, 2001; 4:35am
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/RE-Alec-s-bad-rap-tp1492470p1492479.html
davrecon wrote:
> I've never seen evidence that Alec let his drinking
> in any way interferre with his job performance in any of the episodes!
> He's always struck me as a very competent #2 man for SHADO....with very
> different views than his boss, no doubt, but a very solid man in his own
> right.
True <nod nod>
> I think he was unfairly portrayed as a clown in
> this episode, they went overboard making him look bewildered and out of
> control. Alec is really a cool guy.
I think so, too. As someone mentioned, though, maybe he was trying to do
things the way he THOUIGHT Straker would have done in this ep ...
> There is another instance in UFO where one of the
> characters is unfairly demonized in one of the episodes, to an extent that it
> fails to match his character for the rest of the series, and that is the
> outrageous and rather uncharactersitically overboard pigheadedness of
> General Henderson in the episode "Conflict". Henderson is meant to be a hard
> boiled ramrod of a leader, but effective in his job, and in any other episode he
> comes across as reasonable and believable in that role. But in "Conflict",
> he's totally out of control and irrational, pissing in his own pool and cutting
> his own throat about the organization he himself worked so hard to build. It has
> given many people here an unfairly negative opinion of the guy.
That's true, too - Henderson is a bit of a jerk in that ep, Course, he's
a jerk in Court Martial too.
Gotta go
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