T'Pol is the worst Vulcan character.
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glenn1199 — 9 years ago(September 04, 2016 10:14 PM)
Just finished the whole series and while I liked her character it was poorly written at times. It does get better and you have to pay attention and you can pick up why she behaves the way she does. The Trip / T'pol romance was poorly handled to say the least in my opinion, it's like they started it and then didn't know what to do with it.
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dx360 — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 07:35 PM)
She gets better as time goes on. By Midway through season 1 they stop with the whole rub down stuff except for 1 episode where she gets some fake pom far.
As far as her relationship with trip I think it was handled really well. You need to think of it in context. It was literally the first human Vulcan relationship. The ideology of the species were different as were the morals plus she didn't really know how to deal with emotion and trip didn't understand why she was always so closed off and wouldn't admit she had feelings for him.
I think it was very well done. I'm very glad it wasn't in your face romance all the time because that wouldn't be realistic for those characters at all.
By the end of it all I think she's a great Vulcan who's played with far more nuance than we normally get. -
martymcflyhasparkinsons — 9 years ago(September 26, 2016 06:26 PM)
But she's got the best Vulvan rack! I think I'm gonna let this one slide.
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Nexus71 — 9 years ago(September 27, 2016 01:43 PM)
I think you should watch more of the series at first it took me some time to get used to it but I think in the end she is after Nimoy's Spock-character the most well developed/best acted Vulcan character of any Trek-series.And also take into account the Vulcans of ENT are nothing like the Vulcans from TOS,TNG,DS9 or VOY as you will find out watching ENT much of what Spock talked about in TOS of the Vulcans of the past still apply (to a certain degree)on the Vulcans of ENT but for T'Pol to make sense you must watch the character develop during the course of the series and I can tell you I was pleasantly surprised with Blalock's performance.
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Asteri-Atypical — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 03:03 AM)
I didn't mind T'Pol as much, individually, as I did the handling of Vulcans in general on Enterprise.
They were characterized with far too much emotion, acting more like anal retentives with sticks up their butts and noses in the air than logical stoics. Spock was half human and didn't play the role with nearly the emotion of nearly every Enterprise Vulcan.
They even found a convenient way to emotionalize T'Pol in s3, even beyond the others.
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thepansybastard — 9 years ago(October 12, 2016 10:55 PM)
Vulcans are vegetarians. That's established on TOS. I really like T'Pol. T'Pol isn't a typical Vulvcan, as is explained over the course of the series. Her mother discusses T'Pol's difficulty with suppressing emotion.
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darkslyde — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 07:09 AM)
T'Pol's not bad. They casted it well, it helps Blalock in that her warped and mutilated face, blank and expressionless after, there's no denying it, all that surgery actually helps her play a Vulcan with their lack of emotion. I think she would have been prettier without the surgery. But at least they gave her another chance. Acting's not too bad either.
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MarcusBritish — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 07:13 AM)
Disagree. I enjoyed the deep exploration of her vulnerabilities, emotions, sexuality, beliefs and loyalties over the course of the series. She may not have been the strongest written character in the franchise at times, but was far from the weakest, and certainly never boring.
I suppose many consider Spock the "best" Vulcan, which is fair enough, but a lot of Spock's character was limited to the type of material they could broadcast in the 1960s compared to what they can show to more open-minded audiences today, excluding the more conservative snobs who don't like so much as a nipple but for those of us who do appreciate T'Pol being played without restraint, she was one of the better Vulcan characters in the franchise.
On balance, I consider Tuvok the "worst" main Vulcan character in the franchise. He was boring, pretentious and generally irritating far too one-dimensional for my liking. The majority of his dialogue involved going head-to-head with Neelix with smug retorts, and very little else. Sadly, a lot of the main characters in Voyager suffered from poor writing and unexplored backgrounds, with too much focus on the Doctor, Seven and Janeway and some very dull regular adversaries: the Kazon, Vidiians and Hirogen were all poorly developed species, for the most part. -
RWSstudios — 6 years ago(February 29, 2020 09:48 PM)
I have to say I strongly disagree. The only problem I had with T'pol's character is her use of conjugations. Even Spock, only half Vulcan, used a conjugation once much to Kirk's surprise. But the writers drew attention to the use of Spock's conjugation. T'pol on the other hand, being a much more traditional Vulcan would have said cannot instead of can't. Aside from this she plays a wonderful role as a Vulcan who sympathises with humans more and more as she continues spending time with them. I can even understand how she could smile near the end of season 1. All in all I agree that she plays a better character than Tuvok, but the only thing she has on Spock is her figure.
