a podcast: “It’s like the CW saw Tom Cavanaugh doing ten million different Harrison Wellses and was like, oh, so every actor can do that too, right? But not every actor can do that, some actors only have one character within them! So now they’re just having Tala Ashe play social media influencer Zari and it just doesn’t work--”
me: WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA. Did you guys just. MISS the episode “Zari, Not Zari” where Tala Ashe was able to expertly play both Zaris very differently down to their mannerisms and hand gestures? You don’t have to like Zari 2.0, that’s whatever, but don’t you dare undersell Tala Ashe’s acting capabilities like that! Just because you don’t like one of the characters she plays doesn’t mean she isn’t playing her well! How dare you!