My memory is that we had people using that first characterization during the first 2 seasons, but some time in S3 our collective perception of Sheppard shifted. I have the dim impression that someone did a widely-linked analysis arguing that Flanigan's acting wasn't *bad* (which a lot of us were feeling up to that point) but that he was acting a version of Sheppard that was counter to the "text" the writers/showrunners were giving him.
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Date: 12/27/18 03:55 pm (UTC)