Law & Order - Robert Sean Leonard's ADA O'Dwyer Replace Hugh Dancy?
First off let me say that I do not want Hugh Dancy off the series - he's a fabulous actor folks! - but can we all be honest here? After 5 seasons of the reboot being on the air, the producers and writers are NOT doing this actor any justice (no pun intended).
Rick Eid nor his obviously untrained, inexperienced, and "digitally influenced" writing staff does not do character development well at all, they are either stereotypes or caricatures and either way, it doesn't make for complex characters to where actors can give compelling performances (unless it's personally driven via soap opera style melodrama) and thus the audience can't/won't connect with them.
That been said, I don't want Dancy out. But I feel like 5 years later, there is a lot of damage done that just might not be reversible at this point, even with a new head writer and team with a different vision (that the reboot desperately needs. S25 is better than the rest, but man it's bad in comparison to S1-20). And with budget cuts across broadcast TV I don't see the issue getting better unless the network forces Dick Wolf and his company to make changes.
IF Dancy was to go, outside of Elisabeth Rohm, Raul Esparza, or Angie Harmon, I can't see anyone else filling that role other than perhaps Robert Sean Leonard who played ADA O'Dwyer in seasons 16 and 17 of SVU (I feel like they were going to making room for RSL to come in if Raul was going to Broadway back in 2015-16). I feel like he'd be like the only lower ranged paid actor they could get w/o blowing the budget on an even bigger name.
But ALL of that is moot if they don't part ways with this writing staff. And I'd bet my paycheck that this time next year (if they don't make some drastic changes), we'll likely be saying goodbye to the reboot as well.