Boreanaz, "brilliant"?! Not to be harsh, but I guess he does mediocre brilliantly. He's good when it comes to subtle humor, perhaps due to his decidedly non-expressive expressions (haha). But when I see him play a character, it's like he has to strain to act. If by "two different characters" you mean 'Angel' and 'Angelus', he was just doing two ends of the same spectrum, again, very mediocre. He doesn't have range, he just has connections.

Alexis Denisof I agree with, he's fantastic. Just needs to speak up a little more sometimes. I always thought Amy Acker was good too. She even did a bad guy very creepily as Illyria and as a villian on 'Alias'. She managed to keep them very different to boot.

To each their own I guess...

"The actor whom has no range is James Marsters, whom goes no where with his acting, and every character he has ever played is pretty much the same." and "David Boreanaz, brilliance had range because he could pull off two different characters, sadly he's on Bones where his range is forced to remain nothing because of the writing and directing and creators."

Marsters acted circles around most of that cast and it was his acting that resulted in Spike being more than the one-dimensional, one-shot villian for which the role was created. He has a huge body of work behind him on stage, including Shakespeare (I believe), where he got great reviews. Google it sometime. As for his other TV and movie roles, have you seen any of them? I haven't seen them all but the only thing "the same" about his characters were that a good chunk of them were villians but he did it without playing 'Spike' over and over again. That boy managed to steal every scene he was ever in and even makes the deadest of the dead actors come to life.

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