Terry O'Quinn's role?
I don't understand why he was playing a different character in this film. It would've been better if he was playing Peter Watts (without getting killed off of course).
"Does it look like I give a damn?" - James Bond
Who is Peter Watts?
"Video games ruined my life. Good thing I have two extra lives." -?
His character from Millennium.
"Does it look like I give a damn?" - James Bond
I never understood why they cast him at all. He already had a prolific role in the X-Files universe, and had played another character in a Season 2 episode. Maybe he is really good friends with Chris Carter.
He played 5 different roles in the same continuity (2 "X-Files" eps, the first movie, "Millennium" and "Harsh Realm") and he's not the only actor who was re-cast in new roles.
If they had some sort of nonsense rule against casting a good actor because he appeared in a single episode years prior we would be missing out on awesome casting choices. Can you imagine them passing on Nicholas Lea for the role of Alex Krycek because Lea had alreayd appeared in "Genderbender" in season 1?
The moral of the story? Don't let it bother you. Instead of giving yourself a headache over the idea of 5 characters looking physically identical in a work of fiction just realize that these are works of fiction and the people who made said works of fiction kept casting Terry O'Quinn because they thought he was awesome. Accept it and move on.
For me, the main problem with O'Quinn cast as Michaud in the movie is that Michaud behaves strangely i.e. no sense of self-preservation. This behaviour raises a bunch of questions, the main one being 'Why did Peter Watts just blow himself up!?'
If O'quinn had been cast as an entirely different character, in a different line of work for example, instead of a Fed, with a different look, then perhaps it would have worked. But Michaud was just way too much like Peter Watts in role and appearance.
Consider that the X-files was so full of twists, hints, mysteries and enigmas, such a move was going to get people going.
I don't think even JJ Abrahams would pull a stunt like that. Imagine him casting O'Quinn as an office worker getting eaten by the Cloverfield monster. Would be funny, and could work seeing as Cloverfield and Lost don't exist in the same continuum, or do they?
well thats pretty much what O'Quinn looked like in everything he did around that time. check out anything he did during the 90s and its always that same balding look with the tiny mustache.
i remember when Lost started how weird it seemed to see him without a mustache and barely any hair. of course now his Lost role is so engrained into my brain that he looks weird when i see older shows or movies he's done. lol
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I second that, GG_Pan. He was great in that role. That's where I first took notice of him and always harken back to that when I see him in something else. All you Terry O'Quinn fans need to check it out.
shareburmesterboys, I thought his behavior was pretty well explained. Dying wasn't really part of the plan. He had been mislead by his patriotism into taking part, and his job was really to lead a wild goose chase at the other building while the actual target was blown. When Mulder searched the other building on his hunch he was endangering the plan, and when the bomb was found he sort of forced Michaud to go down with the bomb to ensure nobody disarmed it and ruined the whole thing.
The part I don't understand is why go through all of that trouble to dispose of a few bodies? Every time they had an alien, hybrid, or just a body that needed to be disposed of, they didn't blow up an entire building. And the explosion clearly didn't destroy the bodies. Now there was a pretty much perfect alien hybrid body just laying in a Dallas morgue for Mulder and Scully to find. As far as coverups go, it didn't work at all. It actually provided the evidence Mulder and Scully needed to become involved.
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