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Miles Bennett Dyson
posted by elliotthomas97STAFFMOD on April 6, 2017 at 4:05 PM
How the hell did Joe Morton win an Emmy for this show? Firstly, I can't shake off the TERMINATOR 2 association, but his character is sooooo annoying. Who talks like that? I'm only on Season 5. Does it get better or worse?
Reply by Anna
on April 7, 2017 at 5:24 PM
You better stop watching cuz most of us love Joes delivery and it does not change. I never saw Terminator so thats your own problem.
Reply by elliotthomas97
on April 7, 2017 at 5:29 PM
So, I'm assuming that the show is deliberately arch and overcooked (read irritating). I hate when they keep calling themselves 'gladiators' too.
Reply by Anna
on April 7, 2017 at 5:33 PM
Don't watch then🤦
Reply by Poetist
on April 23, 2017 at 4:31 AM
That's right!
Reply by Anna
on April 23, 2017 at 8:42 AM
So irritating to have posters that bash.😒
Reply by Poetist
on April 24, 2017 at 2:10 AM
I don't think the OP was bashing. S/he wasn't a fan of the actor. That's all.
Reply by Anna
on April 24, 2017 at 9:47 AM
No. Read again...bashed the show as well. Can't please everyone.😢. Last episode was very exciting.
Reply by elliotthomas97
on April 24, 2017 at 11:10 AM
Do you think I'd have watched up to Season 5 if I hated the show?! I just thought that it had become way too arch and almost a parody of itself. Especially when Joe Morton goes into multiple diatribe/monologues about how his daughter knows so little about the real world. God, I've never heard anyone ever remotely talk like that!
Reply by Poetist
on April 25, 2017 at 12:13 AM
I guess you've never heard a black pastor, or people, who want to preach to you.
Reply by elliotthomas97
on April 25, 2017 at 12:26 AM
I've seen preaching on TV and film, but have never experienced been preached at. It would be lost on me anyhow!!
Reply by Poetist
on April 25, 2017 at 12:34 AM
It's an experience I tell you. You just kind of have to stand there and absorb it or pretend to do that.
Reply by elliotthomas97
on April 25, 2017 at 11:10 AM
Eh, sounds terrible. I have seen the TV show PREACHER, and Dominic Cooper is pretty cool in that (for a preacher, that is!).
Reply by Poetist
on April 25, 2017 at 10:22 PM
Hmm.. those shows kind of fall flat for me, but I did like the reality show, Preachers of LA.
Reply by Mrs. William the Bloody
on May 26, 2017 at 3:06 PM
I saw him in T2, but I associate Joe Morton with A Different World. I keep hoping that Scandal will have Jasmine Guy guest star as a potential love interest for Papa Pope.
That being said, I used to find his monologues annoying, but not I just sit back and enjoy them for what they are. He is over the top, but so is everyone on the show. I mean, who walks like Olivia Pope? LOL
Reply by Jana
on May 26, 2017 at 4:49 PM
Joe Morton was amazing in Eureka, I LOVED that show! I was so sad when they cancelled it, for some reason they always do that when I find shows I really like 😔
Anyway, I think he is great as Rowan, he delivers his lines perfectly. And yes he sounds like a preacher but I think that's the whole idea. Rowan wants to be the voice of reason and damned be if you don't listen.