Somebody Thinks Rip Hunter is Better Than Booster Gold
In a case that can only be described as sheer madness, someone out there in TV land has decided that Rip Hunter is a better character than Booster Gold. It makes no sense. But they’ve gone and cast Arthur Darvill as Rip Hunter in that upcoming Justice League-esque TV show. This comes soon on the heels of a casting announcement for Hawkgirl.
I wouldn’t mind being type-cast as a time traveller
Rip Hunter is a generic time traveller who debuted in comics in 1959 and had a short-lived comic book series in the early 60s. He’s a handsome, somewhat dashing action hero type who basically just travels around time having adventures. Darvill, of course, was Rory Williams on Doctor Who, so he is no stranger to time travel.
Now, we knew a time traveller was coming to the show because of casting announcements. But like any sane people, we all thought it was going to be Booster Gold, the far far more interesting comic book time traveller. Booster Gold is a washed up football player from the future who steals a time machine and some futuristic technology and comes back in time to be a modern day superhero, using the future tech to make it look like he has super powers. That is a damn good character premise, and Booster Gold has an awesome gold costume.
Rip Hunter is just a dude who maybe wears a jumpsuit from time to time. In no epoch is Rip Hunter a better, more interesting character than Booster Gold. Yet this is the epoch we live in, apparently.
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Posted on March 31, 2015, in DC, Doctor Who, Television and tagged Arrow-Verse, Arthur Darvill, Justice League, Rip Hunter, The CW. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
Henchman-4-Hire 
Considering Talia is still nowhere to be seen so they can give the spotlight to Nyssa I’m guessing they are trying to give more obscure characters an oportunity.
Besides just because Booster Gold won’t appear from the beginning doesn’t mean he won’t, although they will probably tie his story to Rip’s somehow.
I wonder if that Booster Gold show at Sci-Fi is still in pre-production. Maybe that’s it.
What doesnt make sense to me is, he is Booster Gold’s son,,,, So Booster may still come
Also in Boosters run right before the new 52, he and Booster were basically best friends and Rip went back to save Boosters sister. I like that they picked Rip, but Booster is so much better.
Booster is integral to Rip so i have hope for Booster, like how Wally West or Bart Allen will be in Flash season 2
I don’t think they have to stick with the ‘Rip is Booster’s son’ stuff if they don’t want to. I think that was recently revealed anyway.