Rumors are bad for you

[trinityvixen]

Unless they're spoilers for Heroes that might be a sign of things improving! (Uh, spoilers, duh.) The show would be hard-pressed to make things worse (though it will, of course, try), but a few of these spoilers are steps in the right direction.

No Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2!? I hope this isn't true. I loves me some Don Cheadle, but he doesn't have the same presence as Terrence Howard. I don't think he'd be a great straight-man to Robert Downey Jr. This has to be fixed or made up, right?

What a difference a day makes: goodbye Ten? I swear io9 was just saying Tennant for now and forever or at least through until Moffat's first season on the show. Now maybe not so much?

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking Tennant's going to leave for a while now. His own most recent interviews seemed to indicate a readiness to move on. Also I think there's always a chance that Hamlet will end up coming over here the way Lear and Macbeth did, which means not a lot of time for a full season of DW.

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

I don't think those spoilers are enough to save Heroes, but then again, I'm not sure I think ANYTHING is enough to save Heroes.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Well, I wouldn't disapprove. I haven't ever warmed to Tennant. A new face is more than welcome.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No, they're not enough, but they're a step in the right direction: thinning the ranks. There are too many goddamned supers at this point.

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

I read the Don Cheadle news today too - it's on the E! website as well.
As to a new Doctor, well, it's about time. Tennant's schtick is getting a bit old... :-P

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one displeased with Tennant. I feel he has none of the gravitas that Christopher Eccleston brought to the role, and his brand of goofy is so exhausting that he's not really the worthy successor to classic Who Doctors either. What I wouldn't give for Tennant to resist jumping all over the room and just to give a great googly-eyed Tom Baker performance. A lot can be done with a smile and an insufferable air--it doesn't have to be energy and speed-talking and nothing but!

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

Quite. :-P I got used to him, but I LOVED Eccleston (though he was perhaps less fun on set, according to Mr. Barrowman). The whole Rose thing was what really pissed me off with Tennant's doctor (and that's probably more about the writing than anything else, but still, got tired of him). I mean, the Doctor's never favored a companion that much, and the fact that she was so obsessed that it be HIS Doctor that saved the universe (I mean, the Doctor is the Doctor) seemed really ridiculous to me. And that whole ending - blech - here, have a piece of me to keep. I'd rather have a piece of Eccleston, thanks :-P

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty big lack of maturity to assume one can always have the Doctor forever. Part of the success of the show is that not even the men playing the Doctor have had him forever. Companions have to come and go; sooner or later, everyone has to have their own life.

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

I loved Moffat at the ComiCon this year. Someone asked him if he was going to do any stories with Rose and the duplicate doctor, and he was like, no! And then he added, aren't you glad he finally got rid of that clingy girlfriend? HAHAHAHA

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

I am pissed about Howard as well. He apparently had a dispute over money. At first that annoyed me, but then I did think that Favreau may or may not have been having the same problem, and maybe it's Marvel, not Howard's fault.

But I really liked him in the role and I too think Cheadle's a fine actor but he doesn't make for a particularly similar contrast against Downey as Howard did. Perhaps fan outcry can get this all worked out.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Marvel is stupid. We know this. Terrence Howard is a big enough star and their future franchise spin-offs depend on Rhodey being bankable, so they should have done everything to keep him on board.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

I doubt Marvel thinks Cheadle is not bankable.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

He is bankable, I suppose, but he doesn't have the tough-guy cred that Terrence Howard does. How they shoot Iron Man 2 will determine whether he walks away with any of that. I also think that Howard is a better straight man than Cheadle. Cheadle is a fantastic sarcastic ass, but I don't think Robert Downey Jr. needs an echo or the competition.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

You don't think Cheadle can play a straight man? Have you *seen* Hotel Rwanda and Crash?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, but "serious role" is different from straight man. Straight man requires a seriousness that is also comic. From what I've seen of Cheadle's serious and comic work, I'm not entirely positive he's straight-man material