Originally posted by Essex
I know all of you guys like McDowell as Tolwyn, but I thought that the guy from the movie was really good as Tolwyn. I just can't see McDowell crying in Fleet Action.
The novels portray Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn as a significantly more... "human" character, who is not afraid to let go his emotions...
I think we can safely say that from the novels, Tolwyn appears as a "nice guy", a leader many of us would like to serve under.
From the games, the image I had crafted of Tolwyn was "the guy who always means trouble for Blair"... whenever he's around, Blair has to shut up and mumble how annoying the admiral is (this is just the impression I got, it's not necessarily the truth).
McDowell is very good in playing this latter part of Tolwyn... dark, composed, orderly... traits that the Admiral reobtains in the novels
Heart of the Tiger and
Price of Freedom, adapted from the games.
But from the other novels, Tolwyn really appears as the brilliant strategist who's going to save Earth, "while at the same time looking cool" if you catch my meaning...
He worries about his nephew Kevin, talks to Jason Bondarevsky as a friend, and we even get to meet a few of his older comrades, like Vance Richards, who respect him and treat him as a friend...
It's just a different picture than the games'...
[Edited by mpanty on 06-11-2001 at 19:15]