LOL You obviously never spent any time as a fan girl. (And Moggy is really grateful on this point, too.) 1. I tried watching the most recent iterations of Dr. Who. (I missed all the earlier ones, because the vagaries of US broadcast system.) The time paradoxes gave me brain ache, though in retrospect they weren't as bad as what happened on Primeval. But some of the stories were fun, and I might've stuck around longer if the male leads were more appealing. The first thing you need to understand about fangirl mentality is we're all about the appeal. In my case, I'm also casting for future hero types for my fiction, and once I find a likely candidate, I'll check out all their projects for additional inspiration. 2. The first Highlander is great pop fantasy, but Christopher Lambert was NEVER the answer to this (long-ago) maiden's prayers. I never watched Highlander, the Series regularly until the character of Methos appeared. He, not the titular Highlander, rang my chimes and inspired the fan fiction that got me writing again after a ten-year hiatus. (See, 1. above. :D) His appearance also kicked off the third through fifth year story arcs that were the series' finest hours. As for continuity between the movies and the series, the producers denied there was any...until the fourth movie. And ALL the fans--movie and series partisans, both--cringed. 3. The joy about commenting about an industry with which I have no contact--and whose participants are public figures--is I don't have to hold my tongue or censor my opinions. They harm none. The players never see them, and I'll never meet the players. It's a get out of jail free card for everybody. And in my opinion Keanu Reeves is an awful actor. The memory of him in Much Ado About Nothing is enough to cause physical pain. He performs well enough when the character is not required to show intelligence or emotion. Think Neo in The Matrix or Klaatu. He's this generation's Great Stone Face, minus Gregory Peck's off-screen intelligence and charm. (Peck is one of the few Hollywood actors I've met in person, so I can cheerfully attest to the latter.) All of which makes Reeves entirely wrong for the character of Spike Spiegel. Cowboy Bebop is arguably the best anime series ever. It was close to perfect in it's original form. It's like Marion C. Cooper's King Kong. Why muck with perfection? But if you must mess with it, you need to bring some brains to it, as Christopher Nolan did to Tim Burton's vision of Batman. The casting of Keanu Reeves shows just the opposite. For starters, he's twenty years older than the character and he lacks the ability to play a charming smartass. In the twenty years of his cinematic career, he's never once been able to play a character who's comfortable talking. It's just not in his cinematic skill set. And no, normally I'm not this passionate about casting. But for crying out loud, it's Spike! Hugs and smiles, Jean Marie
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Date: 2008-12-21 05:29 am (UTC)1. I tried watching the most recent iterations of Dr. Who. (I missed all the earlier ones, because the vagaries of US broadcast system.) The time paradoxes gave me brain ache, though in retrospect they weren't as bad as what happened on Primeval. But some of the stories were fun, and I might've stuck around longer if the male leads were more appealing. The first thing you need to understand about fangirl mentality is we're all about the appeal. In my case, I'm also casting for future hero types for my fiction, and once I find a likely candidate, I'll check out all their projects for additional inspiration.
2. The first Highlander is great pop fantasy, but Christopher Lambert was NEVER the answer to this (long-ago) maiden's prayers. I never watched Highlander, the Series regularly until the character of Methos appeared. He, not the titular Highlander, rang my chimes and inspired the fan fiction that got me writing again after a ten-year hiatus. (See, 1. above. :D) His appearance also kicked off the third through fifth year story arcs that were the series' finest hours.
As for continuity between the movies and the series, the producers denied there was any...until the fourth movie. And ALL the fans--movie and series partisans, both--cringed.
3. The joy about commenting about an industry with which I have no contact--and whose participants are public figures--is I don't have to hold my tongue or censor my opinions. They harm none. The players never see them, and I'll never meet the players. It's a get out of jail free card for everybody.
And in my opinion Keanu Reeves is an awful actor. The memory of him in Much Ado About Nothing is enough to cause physical pain. He performs well enough when the character is not required to show intelligence or emotion. Think Neo in The Matrix or Klaatu. He's this generation's Great Stone Face, minus Gregory Peck's off-screen intelligence and charm. (Peck is one of the few Hollywood actors I've met in person, so I can cheerfully attest to the latter.) All of which makes Reeves entirely wrong for the character of Spike Spiegel.
Cowboy Bebop is arguably the best anime series ever. It was close to perfect in it's original form. It's like Marion C. Cooper's King Kong. Why muck with perfection? But if you must mess with it, you need to bring some brains to it, as Christopher Nolan did to Tim Burton's vision of Batman. The casting of Keanu Reeves shows just the opposite. For starters, he's twenty years older than the character and he lacks the ability to play a charming smartass. In the twenty years of his cinematic career, he's never once been able to play a character who's comfortable talking. It's just not in his cinematic skill set.
And no, normally I'm not this passionate about casting. But for crying out loud, it's Spike!
Hugs and smiles,
Jean Marie