(still blinking)

I'm sorry, my darling. It's just - well. I watched it once, and said OK, even though D. messing makes me break out in hives, I love McCormick and will see what the supporting cast does. And then supporting cast (male) was toothache-makingly camp and the pretty lady who played Karen opened her mouth and suddenly I was remembering Fran Drescher (ONLY as a reference to voices that make me want to go stick a fork in my own eyeball) and, well, it was no go after that, I'm afraid, even though most of my friends adore it and we share many, many other tastes in common, including Buffy, and Angel, and....

And then supporting cast (male) was toothache-makingly camp and the pretty lady who played Karen opened her mouth and suddenly I was remembering Fran Drescher

I'm told her actual speaking voice is quite different, unlike Drescher (thank goodness for her if it's true). As I said, the crush is inexplicable. She just... hmm. Paul describes her as the screechy woman, and yet... I adore her. Still, it's the voice that caused the longing for Darla/Karen.

During a rewatch of Dear Boy, I was struck by certain similarities in the way that Darla speaks and the way that Karen speaks. And then I thought about them shopping. And cheerfully killing people. Fashion police with fangs.

OK, see, I can't write this, because I know precisely zilch of Karen.

But if you could do the Karen bits, see, and I could do my feral little Darla, well, then....

I think vamp!Karen and Darla would get along rather well, but I can't write it.

Edit: Plus, the timeline is weird. I guess Karen could have gone to L.A. to buy shoes and booze after Darla was revamped but before she realized she was pregnant.

Edit 2: But, of course, it's already way the hell AU, so we could just decide the whole pregnancy thing never happened and set it any time after mid-S2 Angel. Or anytime before 1997.

I've got a depressing little AU fic up in my livejournal.

Not sure why I was moved to write this particular thing, but hey. It's not spoilery at all, unless you stopped watching sometime in Season Three.

I'm told her actual speaking voice is quite different, unlike Drescher (thank goodness for her if it's true).

It is. If you watch some of the very early W&G eps in reruns, the Karen voice is not quite so...Karen.

What was her sitcom before? She was slimmer -- and completely missable with the normal voice and samely-pretty looks.

I like her Karen much better, though I don't watch the show.

Edit 2: But, of course, it's already way the hell AU, so we could just decide the whole pregnancy thing never happened and set it any time after mid-S2 Angel. Or anytime before 1997.

Nah, it could be part of the rewrite post Connor-erasure.

Oh, Holli! That was just *wonderful.*

Yes, anyone who has not yet read Holli's story, go read it now.

Anyone who has an LJ, pimp far, pimp wide. PIMP! PIMP!

Because it deserves to be read, damn it.