Long associated with desiccated performances by blokes in ill-fitting black T-shirts, the laptop instead allows Herndon to fully evoke our smartphone-addicted modern life.
No one else could stand here and so fully evoke the tattered ending of that election, with its Lilliputian strands of hanging chads, butterfly ballots and overvotes that helped shape history.
Here, the only emotion that "The Time Machine" can fully evoke takes hold, a sadness about what could have been, as Alexander's housekeeper, Mrs. Watchit (Phyllida Law), wonders what path her master has taken.
Rothschild has fun evoking the fizz of Nica's New York — "She did not just listen to jazz; she lived it" — but cannot fully evoke the richness of Nica's mysterious, heroic love for Monk.
I'm not asking for the Sin Nombre theme ride: I just wished that Fukunaga had taken the time to more fully evoke the discomfort, the grief, even the boredom of the journey.
Cross said that Raine and co-guest star Dougray Scott were good at filling out their characters, as he found it difficult to fully "evoke the history of a quite complex relationship" between their characters with just the script.
