Actually, it would make a lot of sense if they cast some little kid but got Idris Elba to do the voice. Charles Wallace talks like he's 45 years old.

Honestly, I could see A Swiftly Tilting Planet working better as a movie than it did as a book. The sections of the book where Charles Wallace is "within" people drag on and on, and Charles Wallace gets lost for long stretches.

You could literally listen to a different Big Finish Doctor Who audio every day for two years.

Sure, I get that. Personally, I think of a comedic actor as an actor who does a lot of comedy.

Nada Surf is a weird thing for me, because I never got into them until I heard and loved the then-new "See These Bones" in 2008. I bought that album (Lucky), which I adore, but I never bothered to go back and listen to anything else.

I'd say he's a comedic actor in the same sense as Cary Grant.

In the 50s-60s he was pretty much a comedic actor, but his 70s filmography is full of dramas.

Alan Alda on the last four seasons of M*A*S*H.

The Hughleys!

Or the Cosby Show. Or the Jeffersons.

I've already been persuaded (see above)

Ha!

Yeah, I can't argue with that.

I wish I could muster more than a half-hearted defense. Mostly it was just kind of nice to revisit/update that world.

Yeah, that series was wonderful. I think about Horus: Lord of Light more than any actual Thor comic.

Don't forget:

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century was pretty good.

And Supreme, which is 100% a love letter to the Silver Age.

Similarly, though, what hits did he have after Khan (outside of ST VI)? Volunteers starring Tom Hanks is probably the most notable, and that's not terribly notable.

Oh wow. Yeah, that's even crazier.