History Quotes / OutofFocus

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!!!Reviews

-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''Matt Wilson''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-x-men-3-the-last-stand-2006-part-two/ on]] ''[[{{Film/X-Men}} X-Men 3: The Last Stand]]''

->Playing into the “[[Creator/WilliamShatner Bill Shatner]] power fantasy reading”, we also get a sense that ''The Final Frontier'' is “James Kirk vs. the Universe.” A key plot point of the film has most of the cast turning against Shatner Kirk. Given how Shatner has dismissed criticisms from his fellow stars, deriding them as petty jealousies (“[[SpearCarrier there was nothing to nick]]”), it’s not too difficult to buy into this. Indeed, one section of the commentary has Shatner passive-aggressively blame his co-stars for the movie’s dodgy appearance (''"A disproportionate amount of money is spent on talent as against production..."'') Not only are the characters inside the film betraying Kirk, the actors appearing in the film are actively sabotaging Shatner. It’s worth noting that his original outline for the film had both Spock and [=McCoy=] turning against Kirk – which would have left Kirk the ''only'' hero of the film – but both Creator/LeonardNimoy and [=DeForest Kelley=] [[CreatorBacklash steadfastly refused to play along.]]

->''"Keiki is the main character of this series (although that's debatable)."''

->'''kyusiko''': i still relevant
->'''coobie''': [[BrutalHonesty no]]

->"Did you ever feel like... like somepony made you a background pony in your own story? [...] Like... Like you're reading a story, right? And you start out, and the first chapter or two you think 'oh, this story is all about THIS character! the peasant colt in the cottage!' and you go along and... then somewhere in the middle suddenly it's not anymore, it's all about the lonely princess in the tower or the wandering knight and the peasant colt is just a pony in the background for the rest of the story. I kinda feel like that. Like I'm the peasant pony and the writer's just forgot all about me and gone off and did something with somepony else. [...] When we first got here, Mom and me, I mean, everything just kept happening. And stuff started building up, and building up, and it felt like, I dunno, like something ''big and important'' was going to happen to me-- but instead it all happened to [[spoiler: ''Spike'']]. [...] I feel like I came all this way and ''something'' was supposed to happen... I was supposed to ''make'' something happen... and I never did."

->'''Madison''': I know I'm a Power Ranger, but c'mon. You guys are the ones that really... you know... lit it up. I don't feel like I did my share.
->'''Xander''': Maddie, that's ridiculous. You're as much a part of the team as anyone.
->'''Chip''': Yeah.
->'''Madison''': Thanks. But, um, lets get real here. Nick did the Catastros thing. Xander, you get all the spell codes. Chip, you saved Vida.
->'''Chip''': Oh, yeah.
->'''Xander''': That was cool.
->'''Madison''': And Vida kicks butt. And I...
->'''Chip''': What about Jenji? You helped Jenji.
->'''Madison''': As a friend, not a superhero. Oh, actually yeah, I did do something special. I got turned into a stone statue, and everyone had to come and save me. [[SarcasmMode Awesome]].
-->-- ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', "The Light"

!!!On works
->''"Sorry, [[Creator/FamkeJanssen Famke]], you had your three scenes! [[StayInTheKitchen Now grown-ups are talking]]."''

->''"Poor Roxanne Dawson. When the show began B’Elanna was one of the characters that the writing team were most invested in – you could tell by the way it was her story that they focused on immediately after the pilot. There was a nice little [[CharacterDevelopment character arc]] running through the first three seasons that saw the character go from an aggressive bully to a focused, professional Starfleet engineer and installments such as Dreadnought, Remember and Blood Fever were some of the best of their years. Season four was where it all started to go wrong (it seems that with the advent of Jeri Ryan’s [[SpotlightStealingSquad Seven of Nine]] that Torres was neglected almost as if the writers are commenting that you can’t have two such sophisticated characters on the show) and Torres underwent something of a character deterioration and the few times they could be bothered to give her an episode it seems that they felt the need to make an [[AesopAmnesia out-of-character regression]]. Dawson’s pregnancy might have had something to do with Torres vanishing into the shadows but episodes like Day of Honor, Extreme Risk (B’Elanna is [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat addicted to extreme sports]]) and now Juggernaut (B’Elanna cannot control her anger – this is direct throwback to season one’s Parallax which was the second episode so it feels like we are [[StaticCharacter back where we started with the character]]) do her no favours at all...When Torres blatantly insults the Captain (‘Diplomacy, Janeway’s answer to everything’) it feels shockingly out of character considering what the two of them went through together in the first couple of years. That relationship has been completely ignored in favour of the Janeway/Seven duo and its almost as if [[CreatorBacklash you can hear Dawson’s disdain]]. Isn’t it fortunate that in an episode that deals with Torres’ anger she has to solve the problem by [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer beating up the core labourer with a giant pipe]]."''

->''"This is a Superman show where [[SpotlightStealingSquad Green Arrow is more of a character]], because Superman himself is [[StaticCharacter forced to be static]]. And it’s obvious that everyone involved has realized this. That’s why they’ve introduced Green Arrow, and the JSA, and all those other guys, because the only alternative is a show about Clark Kent not being Superman, and [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs who in the hell wants to watch that?]]"''

->''"Poor Roxanne Dawson. When the show began B’Elanna was one of the characters that the writing team were most invested in – you could tell by the way it was her story that they focused on immediately after the pilot. There was a nice little [[CharacterDevelopment character arc]] running through the first three seasons that saw the character go from an aggressive bully to a focused, professional Starfleet engineer and installments such as Dreadnought, Remember and Blood Fever were some of the best of their years. Season four was where it all started to go wrong (it seems that with the advent of Jeri Ryan’s [[SpotlightStealingSquad Seven of Nine]] that Torres was neglected almost as if the writers are commenting that you can’t have two such sophisticated characters on the show) and Torres underwent something of a character deterioration and the few times they could be bothered to give her an episode it seems that they felt the need to make an out of [[AesopAmnesia character regression]]. Dawson’s pregnancy might have had something to do with Torres vanishing into the shadows but episodes like Day of Honor, Extreme Risk (B’Elanna is [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat addicted to extreme sports]]) and now Juggernaut (B’Elanna cannot control her anger – this is direct throwback to season one’s Parallax which was the second episode so it feels like we are [[StaticCharacter back where we started with the character]]) do her no favours at all...When Torres blatantly insults the Captain (‘Diplomacy, Janeway’s answer to everything’) it feels shockingly out of character considering what the two of them went through together in the first couple of years. That relationship has been completely ignored in favour of the Janeway/Seven duo and its almost as if [[CreatorBacklash you can hear Dawson’s disdain]]. Isn’t it fortunate that in an episode that deals with Torres’ anger she has to solve the problem by [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer beating up the core labourer with a giant pipe]]."''

->''"This is a Superman show where [[SpotlightStealingSquad Green Arrow is more of a character]], because Superman himself is [[StaticCharacter forced to be static]]. And it’s obvious that everyone involved has realized this. That’s why they’ve introduced Green Arrow, and the JSA, and all those other guys, because the only alternative is a show about Clark Kent not being Superman, and [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs who in the hell wants to watch that?]]"''\\

--'''''[=ComicsAlliance=]''''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-finale/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Finale")

->''"Poor Roxanne Dawson. When the show began B’Elanna was one of the characters that the writing team were most invested in – you could tell by the way it was her story that they focused on immediately after the pilot. There was a nice little [[CharacterDevelopment character arc]] running through the first three seasons that saw the character go from an aggressive bully to a focused, professional Starfleet engineer and installments such as Dreadnought, Remember and Blood Fever were some of the best of their years. Season four was where it all started to go wrong (it seems that with the advent of Jeri Ryan’s [[SpotlightStealingSquad Seven of Nine]] that Torres was neglected almost as if the writers are commenting that you can’t have two such sophisticated characters on the show) and Torres underwent something of a character deterioration and the few times they could be bothered to give her an episode it seems that they felt the need to make an out of [[AesopAmnesia character regression]]. Dawson’s pregnancy might have had something to do with Torres vanishing into the shadows but episodes like Day of Honor, Extreme Risk (B’Elanna is [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat addicted to extreme sports]]) and now Juggernaut (B’Elanna cannot control her anger – this is direct throwback to season one’s Parallax which was the second episode so it feels like we are [[StaticCharacter back where we started with the character]]) do her no favours at all...When Torres blatantly insults the Captain (‘Diplomacy, Janeway’s answer to everything’) it feels shockingly out of character considering what the two of them went through together in the first couple of years. That relationship has been completely ignored in favour of the Janeway/Seven duo and its almost as if [[CreatorBacklash you can hear Dawson’s disdain]]. Isn’t it fortunate that in an episode that deals with Torres’ anger she has to solve the problem by [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer beating up the core labourer with a giant pipe]]."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/voyager-season-five.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Juggernaut"

->''"''Smallville'' has done its level best to take away any reason we have to care about Clark. It’s just crazy that this is happening on a show in which he is the main character."''
-->--'''''[=ComicsAlliance=]''''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-8-22-doomsday/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Doomsday")

->'''David''': ''Smallville'' is “no tights, no flights.” It’s about the human sides to the characters, man, not that adolescent power fantasy crap. It’s about what’s deep. SMALLVILLE IS ABOUT WHAT’S REAL.\\
'''Chris''': ''Smallville'' has done its level best to take away any reason we have to care about Clark. It’s just crazy that this is happening on a show in which he is the main character.
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-8-22-doomsday/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Doomsday")

->''"Poor Roxanne Dawson. When the show began B’Elanna was one of the characters that the writing team were most invested in – you could tell by the way it was her story that they focused on immediately after the pilot. There was a nice little [[CharacterDevelopment character arc]] running through the first three seasons that saw the character go from an aggressive bully to a focused, professional Starfleet engineer and installments such as Dreadnought, Remember and Blood Fever were some of the best of their years. Season four was where it all started to go wrong (it seems that with the advent of Jeri Ryan’s [[SpotlightStealingSquad Seven of Nine]] that Torres was neglected almost as if the writers are commenting that you can’t have two such sophisticated characters on the show) and Torres underwent something of a character deterioration and the few times they could be bothered to give her an episode it seems that they felt the need to make an out of [[AesopAmnesia character regression]]. Dawson’s pregnancy might have had something to do with Torres vanishing into the shadows but episodes like Day of Honor, Extreme Risk (B’Elanna is [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat addicted to extreme sports]]) and now Juggernaut (B’Elanna cannot control her anger – this is direct throwback to season one’s Parallax which was the second episode so it feels like we are [[StaticCharacter back where we started with the character]]) do her no favours at all...When Torres blatantly insults the Captain (‘Diplomacy, Janeway’s answer to everything’) it feels shockingly out of character considering what the two of them went through together in the first couple of years. That relationship has been completely ignored in favour of the Janeway/Seven duo and its almost as if [[ArtistDisillusionment you can hear Dawson’s disdain]]. Isn’t it fortunate that in an episode that deals with Torres’ anger she has to solve the problem by [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer beating up the core labourer with a giant pipe]]."''

->''"Poor Roxanne Dawson. When the show began B’Elanna was one of the characters that the writing team were most invested in – you could tell by the way it was her story that they focused on immediately after the pilot. There was a nice little [[CharacterDevelopment character arc]] running through the first three seasons that saw the character go from an aggressive bully to a focused, professional Starfleet engineer and installments such as Dreadnought, Remember and Blood Fever were some of the best of their years. Season four was where it all started to go wrong (it seems that with the advent of Jeri Ryan’s [[SpotlightStealingSquad Seven of Nine]] that Torres was neglected almost as if the writers are commenting that you can’t have two such sophisticated characters on the show) and Torres underwent something of a character deterioration and the few times they could be bothered to give her an episode it seems that they felt the need to make an out of [[AesopAmnesia character regression]]. Dawson’s pregnancy might have had something to do with Torres vanishing into the shadows but episodes like Day of Honor, Extreme Risk (B’Elanna is [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat addicted to extreme sports]]) and now Juggernaut (B’Elanna cannot control her anger – this is direct throwback to season one’s Parallax which was the second episode so it feels like we are back where we started with the character) do her know favours at all...When Torres blatantly insults the Captain (‘Diplomacy, Janeway’s answer to everything’) it feels shockingly out of character considering what the two of them went through together in the first couple of years. That relationship has been completely ignored in favour of the Janeway/Seven duo and its almost as if [[ArtistDisillusionment you can hear Dawson’s disdain]]. Isn’t it fortunate that in an episode that deals with Torres’ anger she has to solve the problem by [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer beating up the core labourer with a giant pipe]]."''

-->-'''The Lady of the Lake''', ''{{Spamalot}}'', ''Whatever Happened To My Part?''

->'''David''': Why wouldn’t it? ''Smallville'' is “no tights, no flights.” It’s about the human sides to the characters, man, not that adolescent power fantasy crap. It’s about what’s deep. SMALLVILLE IS ABOUT WHAT’S REAL. If you excuse me, I’m going to go cry in front of my Aaron Ashmore shrine.\\
'''Chris''': Really, I don’t blame them. ''Smallville'' has done its level best to take away any reason we have to care about Clark. It’s just crazy that this is happening on a show in which he is the main character.

->'''David''': Why wouldn’t it? ''Smallville'' is “no tights, no flights.” It’s about the human sides to the characters, man, not that adolescent power fantasy crap. It’s about what’s deep. SMALLVILLE IS ABOUT WHAT’S REAL. If you excuse me, I’m going to go cry in front of my Aaron Ashmore shrine.\\
'''Chris''': Really, I don’t blame them. ''Smallville'' has done its level best to take away any reason we have to care about Clark. It’s just crazy that this is happening on a show in which he is the main character.
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-8-22-doomsday/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Doomsday")

->''"Poor Roxanne Dawson. When the show began B’Elanna was one of the characters that the writing team were most invested in – you could tell by the way it was her story that they focused on immediately after the pilot. There was a nice little [[CharacterDevelopment character arc]] running through the first three seasons that saw the character go from an aggressive bully to a focused, professional Starfleet engineer and installments such as Dreadnought, Remember and Blood Fever were some of the best of their years. Season four was where it all started to go wrong (it seems that with the advent of Jeri Ryan’s [[SpotlightStealingSquad Seven of Nine]] that Torres was neglected almost as if the writers are commenting that you can’t have two such sophisticated characters on the show) and Torres underwent something of a character deterioration and the few times they could be bothered to give her an episode it seems that they felt the need to make an out of [[AesopAmnesia character regression]]. Dawson’s pregnancy might have had something to do with Torres vanishing into the shadows but episodes like Day of Honor, Extreme Risk (B’Elanna is [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat addicted to extreme sports]]) and now Juggernaut (B’Elanna cannot control her anger – this is direct throwback to season one’s Parallax which was the second episode so it feels like we are back where we started with the character) do her know favours at all...When Torres blatantly insults the Captain (‘Diplomacy, Janeway’s answer to everything’) it feels shockingly out of character considering what the two of them went through together in the first couple of years. That relationship has been completely ignored in favour of the Janeway/Seven duo and its almost as if [[ArtistDisillusionment you can hear Dawson’s disdain]]. Isn’t it fortunate that in an episode that deals with Torres’ anger she has to solve the problem by [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer beating up the core labourer with a giant pipe]]."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/voyager-season-five.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Juggernaut"

->Whatever happened to my part?
->It was exciting at the start.
->Now we're halfway through Act Two,
->And I've had nothing yet to do!
-->-'''The Lady of the Lake''', ''{{Spamalot}}'', ''Whatever Happened To My Part?''

'''Chris''': Really, I don’t blame them. ''Smallville'' has done its level best to take away any reason we have to care about Clark. It’s just crazy that this is happening on a show in which he is the main character. Anyway, we get a nice [[PietaPlagiarism pieta ]] with Chloe and Jimmy to commemorate the sudden devaluation of a thousand fanfics…

'''Chris''': Really, I don’t blame them. ''Smallville'' has done its level best to take away any reason we have to care about Clark. It’s just crazy that this is happening on a show in which he is the main character. Anyway, we get a nice [[pieta|Plagiarism]] with Chloe and Jimmy to commemorate the sudden devaluation of a thousand fanfics…

'''Chris''': Really, I don’t blame them. ''Smallville'' has done its level best to take away any reason we have to care about Clark. It’s just crazy that this is happening on a show in which he is the main character. Anyway, we get a nice [[PietaPlagerism pieta]] with Chloe and Jimmy to commemorate the sudden devaluation of a thousand fanfics…

'''Chris''': Really, I don’t blame them. Smallville has done its level best to take away any reason we have to care about Clark. It’s just crazy that this is happening on a show in which he is the main character. Anyway, we get a nice [[PietaPlagersm pieta]] with Chloe and Jimmy to commemorate the sudden devaluation of a thousand fanfics…

->'''David''': I really hope they do a future-of-''Smallville'' Superman comic at some point, where Clark is just a completely [[DesignatedHero incompetent asshole]] with terrible advice who repeatedly gets dismissed by the rest of the League because all of his ideas are terrible.\\
'''Chris''': You may have noticed that at this point, we are halfway through the episode and we haven’t even seen [[JustHereForGodzilla Doomsday]], let alone any actual Superman/Doomsday conflict. But that’s okay, because now it’s time for Tess and Lois [[GirlOnGirlIsHot to wrestle on Clark’s desk.]]
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-8-22-doomsday/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Doomsday")

->"AAARGH! I haven't had any lines in ''months!'' Am I even still a ''main character?!''"
-->-'''Gilgamesh Wulfenbach''', ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''

-->-'''Nyx''', ''RealityChecksNyxverse'', ''Nyx's family'', final chapter.

-->-'''Gilgamesh Wulfenbach''', ''GirlGenius''

-->-- [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Meduka meguca]] [[http://images.puella-magi.net.nyud.net/8/8a/Meduka_meguca_epiode3.png Episode 3]]

-->-'''The Lady of the Lake''', ''{{Spamalot}}'', ''Whatever Happened To My Part?''

-->"AAARGH! I haven't had any lines in ''months!'' Am I even still a ''main character?!''"

-->'''kyusiko''': i still relevant
-->'''coobie''': [[BrutalHonesty no]]

-->Whatever happened to my part?
-->It was exciting at the start.
-->Now we're halfway through Act Two,
-->And I've had nothing yet to do!

-->-- [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Meduka meguca]] [[http://images.puella-magi.net.nyud.net/8/8a/Meduka_meguca_epiode3.png Episode 3]]

-->-'''Gilgamesh Wulfenbach''', ''GirlGenius''

-->-'''Gilgamesh Wulfenbach''', ''GirlGenius''

-->Why does Sega drop the recurrers and build relationships between Sonic and one-shots, rather than developing Tails, Knuckles, and Blaze (the only good ones in most people's opinions) because of the Loads And Loads Of Characters? Making oneshots rather than developing Tails, Knuckles, and Blaze (and improving on the hated ones) is expanding the cast.
--> Tropers/{{Miru}}