Nick was awesome.
A shame he had to get blown to kingdom come .
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I liked him as well.
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In the book he was by far my favorite character - I actually cried when he died. In the series, I was less enamored of him. #1, not a big Rob Lowe fan, and he was WAY too pretty to play Nick. #2, they changed the character from the book. They almost turned him into some kind of saint. In the book he was much more human and complex.
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In the book he was by far my favorite character - I actually cried when he died. In the series, I was less enamored of him. #1, not a big Rob Lowe fan, and he was WAY too pretty to play Nick. #2, they changed the character from the book. They almost turned him into some kind of saint. In the book he was much more human and complex.That may be a valid point. Do you think it was possibly due to the time-constraints in the series? In other words, the series did not have the time to develop Nick's character that much?
FWIW, I think that Rob Lowe did fairly well here. share
I dunno if it was time constraints, but maybe limitations of a deaf-mute character. On the screen, how do you show the inner thoughts of someone who can't speak? There is that great scene in the book, when Nadine goes to Nick and Ralph's house to plant the bomb, where she finds some of his writings and considers the fact that, if thoughts must be somehow articulated in order to be whole, Nick could really only complete the thought process by writing. So in a way I guess time constraints could come into play as far as character development - they couldn't spend so much time showing us his inner thoughts - but I don't think that means they had to turn him into this beatific creature who never has a human moment. Nick had plenty of those in the book, from sleeping with Julie Lawry when they first met, to feeling piqued over so many of Stu and Frannie's group being on the committee.
As for Lowe, he was better than I had expected him to be, but that was partly because his character was mute - that one dream sequence in which Nick speaks was dreadful... terribly overacted. And again - far too pretty. Nick was not ugly in the book, but he wasn't a GQ model either. I guess I just thought he was miscast, although not as badly as Molly Ringwald. I'm still scratching my head as to how anyone thought she was right for that role.
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
A long-ago poster described Lowe's performance here as learning to act as though he is hearing-impaired. This was a bit unfair, I thought, as Lowe really is deaf in one ear. Personally, like I have said many times on this board, I thought that he did a fairly decent job.
The only person I did not really care for here, was Molly Ringwald. It was not her acting; that was adequate, but simply that she was miscast.
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