Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

[jeanmarieward]

Okay, it was bad enough to learn the SciFi Channel planned to cap their Boxing Day Highlander, the Series marathon with the ghastly fifth HL movie.  (Yes, I'm a card-carrying Methos fan.  Yes, I would actually watch Dr. Who if someone got a brain and cast Peter Wingfield as the doctor.  Heck, I watched Queen of Swords back in the day.  But even the presence of my all-time favorite HL character can not save The Source.  Shudder!)
But Hollywood, say it ain't so!  You cannot seriously intend to cast Keanu Reeves as Spike Spiegel.  Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Somebody, please, tell me who the earth needs to open up and swallow to prevent this!  I'm an earth sign.  I could do it.  With this much motivation, I could do it.
Hugs and wails,
Jean Marie

Comments

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I was trying to figure out which Highlander character that was, until I googled, its Cowboy Bebop.

[jenboo.livejournal.com]

OMG...I don't know why I've never thought of Petey Wingnut as the Doctor!!! He would be FABULOUS!!!

I wish I was home on Boxing Day, but I have to work. Perhaps I will TiVo some eps to watch while I'm on vacation the next week. :o) I tried to watch The Source, but even PW in fringed leather couldn't save it. *sigh*

I have one question, though. Who is Spike Spiegel?
And remember...I'm an earth sign, too. I could help. ;o)

Hugs
Teeny \_/

[jenboo.livejournal.com]

okay, I just read the other comment on this entry. Is that the main character from Cowboy Bebop?!?!?!?
Are they f***ing crazy?!?!?!?!?

[tree220.livejournal.com]

why is it that I have this image of whoever cast Keanu wondering who the hell is weilding the frozen trout that keeps smacking him upside the head. I'm sure the Nag will have to step in on this one.

As for Highlander - don't they realize that The Source is better suited for Halloween? I might watch some of the episodes, you know the ones with someone interesting in them, but I can't force myself to sit through The Source again. The only good thing about the first viewing was the people we watched it with.

[vonandmoggy.livejournal.com]

This is the kinda of thing I'm probably going to regret posting on, but I'll try anyway because I'm not understanding a number of things.

1. You don't watch Dr. Who now? So the David Tennant or even Christopher Eccleston versions aren't something you watch? But you would watch it if an actor you prefer is cast to star on it? This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I get that you might just not like the show after giving it a fair try. I get that. But to watch or stop watching a show based on casting is really, really odd to me. A number of other things need to change along with casting to make me stop watching - or watch in the first place.

2. Highlander: The Series. No offence, but that was a terrible show. A few passable episodes here and there, but man...I hated all of the sequels to the original movie and, respectfully, the TV series was just as bad. The continuity alone killed me - Connor MacLeod is the last immortal. Period. And he gives up that immortality for some form of telepathic powers at the end of the first movie. Any future series has to be a prequel if they want to have immortals playing a leading role. Sequels only work from a radically different non-immortal narrative point of view. And yet, all of the subsequent films and the TV series basically rewrote the ending of the first movie. That's not something I could get over. Blech. Terrible.

3. Cowboy Bebop: I have never seen it. But shouldn't we reserve judgment on the casting 'til after the film has been made? Putting myself in Keanu Reeves shoes, it would be hard not to be hurt if someone felt that way if, say, I took over one of the X-Men comics or something. Hell, I don't care if people damn me if the work sucks after the fact. Each to their own. But doing that before...? It doesn't seem fair or balanced at all to me. I say this being a life long Star Trek fan with mixed feelings about the upcoming new movie. But I'm totally willing to give the new cast a chance before I see it.

Hopefully I make sense!

Von

[arhyalon.livejournal.com]

I have not seen the 5th movie, but I've heard about it...and how pained the actors look and how they don't give a very good performance out of some kind of horror.

The Spike Spiegel problem is that he kinda looks the part, or would if he had more hair. But he doesn't have the attitude.

He just appearend in the remake of one of my husband's movies and apparently, the new version really sucks.