Brian Gaskill Succeeds as a Pathetic Loser
For once, I actually like this actor in a
role...
Who knew? Who knew that Brian Gaskill, who played
the selfish Bobby Warner on AMC and who then went on to play the most
self-righteous role of all time on a soap--an angel who's also a vampire slayer
as Rafe on Port Charles--who knew he would find success as a pathetic loser on
As the World Turns. [I don't know anything about his role as Oscar on B&B,
except that it was short-lived and
unfulfilling.]
Mind you, it's his character who's the pathetic loser. As BJ (alias Byron), Gaskill has managed to mix menace and mousiness well as the fat boy who made good, got plastic surgery, and a wardrobe., all to impress the one girl who was nice to him in high school: Katie Peretti.
It's intersting that ATWT has chosen to revisit Katie's "Butt Busting" video project, which was originally headed by another psycho (remember Colleen Dion as Dahlia?). In general, I think it's a problem when a couple is constantly beset by psychos. When someone like BJ comes along, well, just how long can his reign of terror last?
What is useful about BJ is that he is bringing together Katie, Mike,
Henry, and Maddie into a story that will have to end poorly for someone
(hopefully him). Byron is especially dangerous in that he is detached from
reality and loaded. He's got money to burn and thinks that completely chaning his appearance is going to make him different. But deep inside, as Katie learned one very scary Halloween Eve, Byron is the same invisible kid, grown more dangerous with time, and more deluded.
The story has also brought in Kim, since she is co-owner of the station, and now Jack, who is jobless and maybe going undercover for the FBI to investigate Byron.
Gaskill is also particularly good in part, I am guessing, since he settled some personal demonds in his own life. A recent SOD interview reveals that he was a rageaholic who obsessed with perfectionism at other shows. Apparently he's a lot calmer now. Good thing, since a role like this needs as much subtlety as it can get!
Backbone Central: Jennifer Landon has been amazing as Gwen, hasn't she? She's been part toughie and part vulnerability. Gwen's vulnerable enough to tell off her mother once Carly told her how Iris got Will to think Gwen didn't want him in her life; and then tough enough to tell Iris to shove it. As much as I miss Allison (played by Jessica Dunphy), having Gwen in full swing has taken the edge off of that loss. Gwen and Will are so much more entertaining and even realistic than the Allison-Aaron-Lucy triangle. With Maddie and Casey thrown in (despite my hatred of Casey), we've got a much more intersting bunch. After all, Will did murder his brother's fiancee (howerver unintentionally) and his mother crashed a car into the mental ward.
Nuff said.
Mind you, it's his character who's the pathetic loser. As BJ (alias Byron), Gaskill has managed to mix menace and mousiness well as the fat boy who made good, got plastic surgery, and a wardrobe., all to impress the one girl who was nice to him in high school: Katie Peretti.
It's intersting that ATWT has chosen to revisit Katie's "Butt Busting" video project, which was originally headed by another psycho (remember Colleen Dion as Dahlia?). In general, I think it's a problem when a couple is constantly beset by psychos. When someone like BJ comes along, well, just how long can his reign of terror last?
What is useful about BJ is that he is bringing together Katie, Mike,
Henry, and Maddie into a story that will have to end poorly for someone
(hopefully him). Byron is especially dangerous in that he is detached from
reality and loaded. He's got money to burn and thinks that completely chaning his appearance is going to make him different. But deep inside, as Katie learned one very scary Halloween Eve, Byron is the same invisible kid, grown more dangerous with time, and more deluded.
The story has also brought in Kim, since she is co-owner of the station, and now Jack, who is jobless and maybe going undercover for the FBI to investigate Byron.
Gaskill is also particularly good in part, I am guessing, since he settled some personal demonds in his own life. A recent SOD interview reveals that he was a rageaholic who obsessed with perfectionism at other shows. Apparently he's a lot calmer now. Good thing, since a role like this needs as much subtlety as it can get!
Backbone Central: Jennifer Landon has been amazing as Gwen, hasn't she? She's been part toughie and part vulnerability. Gwen's vulnerable enough to tell off her mother once Carly told her how Iris got Will to think Gwen didn't want him in her life; and then tough enough to tell Iris to shove it. As much as I miss Allison (played by Jessica Dunphy), having Gwen in full swing has taken the edge off of that loss. Gwen and Will are so much more entertaining and even realistic than the Allison-Aaron-Lucy triangle. With Maddie and Casey thrown in (despite my hatred of Casey), we've got a much more intersting bunch. After all, Will did murder his brother's fiancee (howerver unintentionally) and his mother crashed a car into the mental ward.
Nuff said.
Posted: Fri - November 11, 2005 at 10:22 PM
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