Mackenzie was an over-emotional shrew...constantly screeching. Man I hated her.
Sloan never...EVER...changed the expression on her face. One of the most wooden performances I've ever seen. I haven't seen this actress in anything else. Is she just a bad actress...or only bad in this role?
And like someone said...Maggie seemed to overact in most scenes. She was the "best" of the three.
The unholy triumvirate:
The Bat, the Trek, the Bond
Agree with you on Mac and Mag. I like Sloan, she's the only one that seemed put together and didn't come apart at the slightest provocation.
But it's driving me crazy why they write flashes of brilliance for Mac which then devolve into whiny screechy scenes.
Maggie is a total write-off. Absolutely nothing interesting in the character. Would have preferred if they killed her off in the first episode of the first season and spared the sophomoric love story triangle crap.
Ok, I understand where you are coming from and why you dislike the characters.
But I just wanted to point out that the word "hideous", according to dictionary.com means:
"horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly:"
And so the word does not really make sense in this context. None of the actresses is anywhere near "hideous".
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Sloan was supposed to be a sort of oblique nerd of sorts, and the lack of expression fit her character pretty well in my opinion. Not everyone has to be lively and exciting all the time. Sloan was kind of like the halfway-aspie with low self-esteem whose role is usually filled by a guy with glasses. I thought it was refreshing to see an attractive woman do that part for once. Mac and Sloan always struck me as somewhat complementary. Mac as the emotional duracell bunny who always pushed for Will to vent his anger with her, was in many respects the opposite of Sloan, who wasn't even confident enough to ask the not-so-good-looking Don out.
If Olivia Munn truly were "hideous", Sloan would not be allowed to get away with being deadpan/nerdy/halfway-aspie.
Try this experiment: In your mind, replace her with an actress you *don't* want to see naked. Hey presto, Sloan instantly disappears from just about everybody's "favorite character" lists and is suddenly "annoying".
Go ahead Internet, tell me I'm wrong or projecting or jealous or whatever. You've kind of got a track record showing otherwise, so you're wasting your time. :D
I couldn't disagree with you more... I like all 3 lead female characters... especially Sloan, she was one of my favorite characters in the entire show.
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That's how Sorkin always seems to write female characters. Half very brilliant and skilled, and half ditsy. It's a lot like his monologue style dialogue, not realistic and you either like it or it bugs you
His female characters have been like that since way back to Sports Night. In the real world someone going from brilliant to acting silly so quickly and often would likely be scary to be around.
Mackenzie does slide into ditsy more than she should. So much so her getting the President of the news division gig seemed very unlikely
Sloan never...EVER...changed the expression on her face. One of the most wooden performances I've ever seen.
Before reading replies, I certainly disagree. Emily is pretty damned fine woman, Alison is very a very pretty young woman, and Olivia is uniquely beautiful. And they all seem pretty fit. I'm talking about the people, not the characters they played.
Then there's Grace -- the more I see her, the more I find her damned hot.
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Sloan was expressionless because it was all she could do to deliver her lines at light speed as directed. Many of the characters had the same problem, but Olivia Munn, being a marginal actress to begin with, had the most trouble.
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