Also, Jesus Christ, Terry Quinn as Lex Luthor. From The Stepfather forward, it's the role he's been preparing for all his life.
Just imagine him giving a shareholder meeting as "warm Uncle Locke," then turning right around to Mercy and starting work on a Metallo body. He could sell it with one eyebrow.
I disagree about Bryan Cranston, though, who's turning into an excellent supervillain on Breaking Bad, just not in the Luthor mold. In a very real sense, he's playing a Peter Parker who was never bitten, suddenly turning to supervillainy out of desperation in middle age. What's awesome about Walter White is that he never quite loses that school teacher didacticness - the scene where he spots the meth-head buying cooking ingredients at the supermarket, and then proceeds to give him a disappointedly paternalistic LESSON on how he should be going about it instead, is fucking GOLD.
No, Walter White is Bruce Banner if he'd never been exposed to gamma radiation. All that rage would eventually manifest itself as muscling in on rival drug dealers. Can't you just imagine him saying "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't likeme when I'm angry!" to Pinkman after another monumental screw-up?
Peter Parker is a nice guy. Bruce Banner's favored career path was building A-bombs.
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Date: 2010-10-16 04:34 pm (UTC)Just imagine him giving a shareholder meeting as "warm Uncle Locke," then turning right around to Mercy and starting work on a Metallo body. He could sell it with one eyebrow.
I disagree about Bryan Cranston, though, who's turning into an excellent supervillain on Breaking Bad, just not in the Luthor mold. In a very real sense, he's playing a Peter Parker who was never bitten, suddenly turning to supervillainy out of desperation in middle age. What's awesome about Walter White is that he never quite loses that school teacher didacticness - the scene where he spots the meth-head buying cooking ingredients at the supermarket, and then proceeds to give him a disappointedly paternalistic LESSON on how he should be going about it instead, is fucking GOLD.
No, Walter White is Bruce Banner if he'd never been exposed to gamma radiation. All that rage would eventually manifest itself as muscling in on rival drug dealers. Can't you just imagine him saying "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry!" to Pinkman after another monumental screw-up?
Peter Parker is a nice guy. Bruce Banner's favored career path was building A-bombs.