Is it mean of me to hope they had to airbrush at least a little?

You have seen that Dove flash video, right? At a bare minimum those photos are airbrushed.

doesn't make me think the photos are any less hott, though.

Okay, the creepiest part of that video is where they pick up her whole head and stretch out her neck. That is just too bizarre for words.

One of the things I will say about Tricia Helfer naked is that, for all the posing and the airbrushing, she's got reasonably natural-looking breasts and nobody said "Wait! You have to stand on your head to make them perkier!" A whole lot of quasi-porny hot-shot poses are incredibly uncomfortable, because the poser's comfort is as nothing to the stimulation for the pose-ee.

At a bare minimum those photos are airbrushed.

Yeah, but she's not airbrushed on the show -- where we've seen most of that skin before -- and she doesn't look noticeably better/different in the pictures. Just more naked.

Waking this morning, in that half-dreaming state, it occurred to me that Gordon is one of the Frog brothers from Lost Boys. "Kill your brother, you'll feel better."

Hey, it was pre-coffee.

I didn't look at the Helfer shots, but she really is incredible looking. Dh, whose tastes are strongly skewed in favor of buxom brunettes, can't deny her wibble-inducing qualities.

When we first started watching BSG, she made me realize (remember) there's this whole group of people who, in addition to being naturally blessed, work extra hard to look so good. I mean, genes and even professional hair, make-up, lighting and wardrobe can still only do so much. Helfer's a visual wonder and I expect she's earned it. She's truly something.

Oh, she's just a damn gorgeous woman. I don't deny or doubt it in any way. Stunning.

And very nice. I will spare you all the obligatory story, since I always pull it out, but she was very nice.

Dana, I missed the "it" in "pull it out" the first time and wondered what kind of story this was.

Not Dana, but:

At Dragon*Con 2005, Tricia (and Adam Baldwin) were donating all their autograph proceeds to Hurricane Katrina charities (the hurricane happened roughly concurrent with the con). Dana thanked Tricia and got a little, um, teary about it, and Tricia was very nice about being cried on.

Aw, nice one Ms Helfer!

I really have been consistently impressed by her performance & capacity to convince entirely different incarnations of the same Cylon. Props to her.

Meanwhile, yesterday I scored DVDs of Torchwood, Heroes, BSG and Big Love. And then I went home and watched the first two eps of Torchwood, kind of thinking 'it's silly and a bit crap, but I really loved the finale for Shallow and Obvious Reasons.'

And so I was really startled by the mighty wave of love that crashed over me within seconds. Because it is British!!!!!!!

OMG!!!

It's so bloody long since we've had genre shows set in Britain, damn it - and, better yet, NOT IN LONDON. (Although I really like it when Doctor Who is visibly in London, actually, to be fair. But OTHER BITS OF BRITAIN is even better - I mean, Jesus, when was the last time something was set in Wales? With Cardiff looking all fabulous and sexy and Cardiff!!!!??? And full of Welsh people!

loves show HARD.

I cannot adequately express the sheer joy I felt at having a fairly standard X Files/ Supernatural/ Genre show moment being expressed thus: "Let's stop playing silly buggers."

My people!

I mean, ALL the genre shows are full of your people. Hell, Buffy is set in a setting that is to a greater or lesser extent familiar to most of you - it has Cheerleaders and Proms and Sadie Hawkins Dances and Jocks and Geeks and all this crap. Which is every bit as alien and unfamiliar as anywhere Serenity ever landed, from the POV of UnAmericans. But Torchwood is FAMILIAR!!!!! Cops who don't know how to handle guns! Startled postmen! Cups of tea! People being crap! People looking normal, not airbrushed and Hollywood! People having fat arses! People who take the piss!

brims with love some more.

Also, my affection for Ianto increases by leaps and bounds. Ianto rocks my socks.

Also, the show is crammed with the hot girl-on-girl, boy-on-boy, girl-on-boy-on-girl-on-alien-on-cheesesandwich sauce! Which everyone is cool with!

It's like it is fandom, in some weird way - or fanfic, or something. Or, or, okay, I can't express myself very well. But I heart Torchwood. How can I fail to love a show which breezily makes MPreg canon within the first five minutes? It is crackfic incarnate. In Wales.