#extr@

The archetypes are the same but there are little character differences that reverberate into larger plot events. I only care about the Spanish one so I use them for comparison: Ana of Barcelona and Annie of London have the same hard written features, but their personalities are different .. they have the same playful imagination, but Annie is much more bitchy and high-strung. Some of the scenes that Annie finds herself in, Ana never would, just becasue she takes things slower without getting so worked up.

You can always try to capture the same hard events but just with difference tones from the characters, but with some of the things I've seen in the English version, you'd have to REALLY twist to squeeze those results out of the Spanish characters (EXAMPLE Sam Scott would never dress like a stewardess.. it just isnt the comedy his character embodies).

And so Extr@ English is just its own series you have to accept that ...

Some of its events I wish I could see in the Spanish one ... like Nick and Hector watching soap operas and emoting in distress and then quickly changing the channel to football when Bridget walked in. But Sam Scott would never cry like Hector would. And that's just because everywhere he goes the actor Javier Marzan brings with him that theatrical manner. That's what he brings to the table. That's why you're hiring him. Sam Scott is Sam Scott in 3/4 of the Extr@s and he is the best for that character. But he and Hector are very different people.

And UGGGHHH WhT Yhe Fuck I just CANT figure out EXACTLY WHY THIS IS but it is just SOOO OBVIOUS that Javier Marzan is SHINING So Much as Pablo (the BFF neighbor character in the Spanish one) and just NOT SO MUCH as Hector (the foreigner in the English one) .

I suppose just the archetype that Pablo is just allows his best skills to resonate more. It offers ground for them. But what does that even mean. Why WOULDNT he be shining at the struggling somewhat-witty foreigner?

U.G.H. I've been thinking about this for MONTHS. What Javier Fucking Brings to the Table is his PASSION and training for physical comedy. IT IS SO GOOD. Nobody tells him to do this shit. If he's holding an item he KNOWS how to make it a funny prop. He KNOWS how to work with his environment. HIS LITTLE GESTURES. When he's playing Hector it's like dull dull dull dull dull dull dull SUDDENLY SHINING dull dull dull dull etc.

HE KNOWS HIS PROPS HE KNOWS HIS ENVIRONMENT HE KNOWS HIS FUCKING SILHOUETTE HIS BODY LANGUAGE .. I've been mesmerized ever since I first saw even as the closed-off high schooler I was ...

I cant figure it out becasue Hector has the sideburns with the shaggy hair, which is what had Pablo so attractive at the beginning of his respective series, so IDK why Hector just doesnt resonate. It's maddening for me. Is it just the picture quality? All the English postings on the YT appear more washed-out and grey, while the Spanish ones are saturated and orange-shifted.

When hes playing Hector hes just not hot until suddenly he is. The wicked intelligence comes out for just a second. and Then it's enshrouded in script once again.

It's gotta just be the characters. Pablo is ridiculously easy for a man like Javier Marzan to embody. You watch it and REALLY FEEL that Pablo is truly this dumb and goofy and EXTRA while he believes that hes super cool. He strives to be a world famous actor becasue he thinks he can. And he actually does get cast in some shit. He really doesnt know that he's like this. He believes in very gender-strict things on paper but it is very palpable how las chicas across the hall are his equals or greater, he answers to them, HE CARES.

Sam Scott and also Hector, so the foreigner who never had real friends, does always feel like a natural man who loves to bro out. But fucking Javier Marzan as Pablo ... What the fuck . No one fucking does it like him . His friends love him fiercely becasue he needs a little extra protection. Hes a little special. He has no clue though. He thinks hes a manly man but he loves Shakespeare and will steal Lola's tights and not even think about it.

And every little fucking thing he does feels like the genius of Javier Marzan IDK guys . Only a man accustomed to Monty Python style skits would know to move like that.

ONE LAST THING. Javier Marzan is 1/3 of comedic trio Peepolykus, since the 1990s. If you go on their website and read about Javier, it's normal career stuff, and then at the END just sort of THROWN IN THERE is, "hey btw here he is playing Pablo on Extr@ in 2002!" (Link to ep 1)

NO fucking mention of how he played Hector for TWICE AS MANY EPISODES.

Becasue it wasnt as good. We all understand that. It wasnt as influential. They honestly probably didn't even want to include Pablo in his repertoire because it was so long ago and a detour from his true passions. But everyone is in love with Pablo and they comment on all the Peepolykus YT videos how much they love Pablo, so they had to.

BUT UNDERSTAND ME. What Javier brought to Extr@ was more than indispensible. It was downright inventive. To bring those elements of physical comedy, to wear it seamlessly on your person, into the environment of a relaxed-realism domestic sitcom .... I DONT HAVE THE WORDS. It just really did something. It played phenomenally on-screen. It's like a new form of comedy.

And it's actually more overt with Hector, Hector gets more screentime and more power as a character to engage and initiate. His environment is his playground. In Pablo is plays more smoothly as his personality, as interwoven. It's the way he moves. His body language gives it all away. Never is it more known to me that a person's corporal vessel is their primary means of filling the space with themselves. He wears his loudest truths in his posture.

It was sort of an interactive reboot of the all four series.

I just think I need to make these characters in "The Sims".