T'Pol is the worst Vulcan character.
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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.