The first two seasons of this show are amazing. After that I felt like something changed. It was very noticeable to me the lack of frequency of scenes between nicholas campbell, Donnelly rhodes and Ian Tracey after season 2. It was like they were keeping the actors apart on purpose. I thought it was strange that they shared no scenes together in the first episode of season 3. But when they did in the next episode I thought it was fixed and maybe it was the first episode and there was just scedualing conflicts getting the actors together. But throuhout season 3 I continued to notice the same problem and I started windering if there was a problem with the actors not wanting to work with each other. So they just had to do separate stories. I did notice two scenes where I think I noticed real friction between the actors in the few scenes they were in together. One is when the charectirs meet at a body. Leo played by Donnelly roads asks da vinci (nicholas campbell) if it's looking like a homicide. Nicholas campbell proceeds to turn away from rhodes and deliver his line without even looking at him. Maybe nothing but noticing that there were very few scenes with these three actors in season 3 does make me wonder if there was a problem with the actors. It wasn't until it's backwards day when the problem seemed to be fixed. Ironically the best episode of the whole show in a not so good season. Chris haddock the creator of the show actually directed the episode himself. Which makes me think this was a case of the creator himself stepping in to try to solve a problem with his actors by making them work together for one special episode and it was indeed special but to late in season 3 to save it overall.
Anyway the other scene I noticed something wrong with the actors Campbell, Rhodes and Tracey is when Da vinci meets them at the beginning of an episode.
And get this. Rhodes and Tracey are sort of just standing out if frame but a few times Nicholas Campbell just turns and gives them a look and then one more and I'm not sure what to make of that. The actors literally don't say anything to each other in this scene and you don't see Campbell with Rhodes and Tracey after that at all. What was the look campbell gave? Im not sure to me maybe confusion or nervousness or just not wanting to be near them or something. This was not the charectors I am sure. It was not acting This was the actor, campbell giving a strange look to them twice. And the fact that there is absolutely no diolouge. Da vinci doesn't speak to them and they don't speak to him and he just gives them a look which I'm certain was the actor breaking charector in the scene. I definatky got the feeling there was a problem with the actors after that scene.
This is a review in progress. I have many more thoughts.
To be clear I was saying that they seemed to be keeping Nicholas Campbell apart from Ian Tracey and Donnelly rhodes a lot. Tracy and Rhodes seem fine, mostly working together with the absense of Da Vinci, and Da Vinci has a seperate story.
If you go and watch the first two seasons and then watch the others its noticable how da Vinci is rarely ever with Leo and Mick in the same scene. But in the first few seasons he has plenty of scenes with them.
Not so much afterwards. So there are often seperate stories in an episode, keeping charectors apart, so it feels like two different shows that don't blend together, seperated. Like law and order.
I started saying the first two seasons were da Vinci's inquest, and I started calling the rest was like law and coroner. Becuase sadley that's what I feel the show became in many episodes.
Anyway the other scene I noticed something wrong with the actors Campbell, Rhodes and Tracey is when Da vinci meets them at the beginning of an episode.
And get this. Rhodes and Tracey are sort of just standing out if frame but a few times Nicholas Campbell just turns and gives them a look and then one more and I'm not sure what to make of that. The actors literally don't say anything to each other in this scene and you don't see Campbell with Rhodes and Tracey after that at all. What was the look campbell gave? Im not sure to me maybe confusion or nervousness or just not wanting to be near them or something. This was not the charectors I am sure. It was not acting This was the actor, campbell giving a strange look to them twice. And the fact that there is absolutely no diolouge. Da vinci doesn't speak to them and they don't speak to him and he just gives them a look which I'm certain was the actor breaking charector in the scene. I definatky got the feeling there was a problem with the actors after that scene.
This is a review in progress. I have many more thoughts.
To be clear I was saying that they seemed to be keeping Nicholas Campbell apart from Ian Tracey and Donnelly rhodes a lot. Tracy and Rhodes seem fine, mostly working together with the absense of Da Vinci, and Da Vinci has a seperate story.
If you go and watch the first two seasons and then watch the others its noticable how da Vinci is rarely ever with Leo and Mick in the same scene. But in the first few seasons he has plenty of scenes with them.
Not so much afterwards. So there are often seperate stories in an episode, keeping charectors apart, so it feels like two different shows that don't blend together, seperated. Like law and order.
I started saying the first two seasons were da Vinci's inquest, and I started calling the rest was like law and coroner. Becuase sadley that's what I feel the show became in many episodes.