LOTR was the first and last movie(s) I saw Viggo in. Never heard of him prior to that. What didn’t you like about the way he played Aragorn, and who would you have cast for that role? Jackson omitted so much of the last chapters of ROTK that the ‘kingly’ and ‘healing’ natures of the Aragorn character were never really developed. If you are going to say that Viggo is not a swordfigher, I’d have to concede that point to you, but I thought he played the softer, elvish, thoughtful side of Aragorn pretty convincingly. My $.02 FWIW.
“What didn’t you like about the way he played Aragorn, and who would you have cast for that role?”
My beef with Viggo in LOTR was that in his Strider persona, he didn’t seem dangerous, wry or rough enough. And then later when he accepted his role as heir to the throne, he just wasn’t kingly. He just didn’t seem like a man who could *command* an army of wraiths to rise up and follow him!
Viggo is awfully pretty to look at, though. So there’s that. ;o)