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Geordi or Kunta Kinte?


Which character do you like better?

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Geordi

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Kunta Kinte, Geordi was a bit boring.

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Geordi, but I've never watched "Roots".

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I was in grade school when Roots came out. I remember my father watching the whole miniseries but I only saw bits and pieces of it. Despite that and the fact I watched a lot of TNG I will always think of him more from Roots since that was the very first time I saw him. When TNG started he was the only member of the cast I recognized.

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Oh Kunta Kinte was a better and more dramatic role. No comparison.

I'm a big Star Trek fan, but his character Geordi is stuck behind his glasses which are like a face shield and it kinda kills the character's dramatic options. He's more of a prop on Star Trek.

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That visor (really a hair clip) was apparently painful to wear.

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Someone should make a shirt with the 9 emotions of Geordi and they’re all exactly the same shot of him in the Visor.

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🤣

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Dummy

This one role Lavar portrayed has always stuck with me. I think it was a CBS TV movie that came out in 1979. I saw it in my high school mass media class years later (my teacher had it on a bootleg VHS).

I've always wanted to see it again.

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Depends, is Geordi wearing the Visor?

1. Geordi w/visor
2. Kunta
3. Geordi Sesame Street
4. Geordi w/o visor

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Geordi

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