I'd let Ford have his way because he's all wee and pretty and stuff. It's so cute.

Damn, I feel a rewatch coming on. Of ATLANTIS!!! This is weird.

Chemistry is a weird thing. If we're talking beyond the romantic, then I think Shep/McKay has the best poppy, bantery chemistry. I find them great fun to watch in a way that is not at all sexual.

I can sort of see McKay/Weir. Clearly, I need to watch more episodes.

Oh, yeah, Shep and McKay do really good banter. I just have no interest in seeing them sleep together--they don't have the kind of emotional bond that tends to be what makes me want to slash a couple of guys.

Damn, I feel a rewatch coming on. Of ATLANTIS!!! This is weird.

This thread is such a mutual crack-enabling society. I didn't even think about DL'ing SG:Atlantis until late morning today when I started larking around here.

they don't have the kind of emotional bond that tends to be what makes me want to slash a couple of guys.

Yeah, the pretty alone doesn't do it for me. Shared history, complex layers in the relationship, and a particular kind of actor chemistry need to converge at the same time for me to start seeing slash. It also needs to build a bit over time. (Although there are exceptions. Over at VM, one episode couple of weeks back had me going from "whatever" to "Holy shit! Logan and Weevil are so doing it!"

it's weird. Slash-colored spectacles are a strange thing. I was watching Spooks 308 last night, and the scene where Will comes to see Danny and it's all tense and angry and they're both missing Zoe? I totally saw the slash there, although in an angry lost kind of way. Curse you, slashers! t shakes fists impotently

Oh, Suela. That's so wrong. Perfectly writeable, but what a trainwreck. Poor Danny.

See? It would be all wrong and nasty and hot. Someone who isn't me should write it. And all of about four people would read it, since the US is so far behind on Spooks. Sigh.

Know what'll happen? They'll cut Will from the A&E edits. I can't help (but hate) guessing what won't make it from Spooks to MI-5.

Damn, this is the ep I haven't seen yet. Must. Resist. Urge. To. Highlight!

As for the whole inappropriate slash goggle thing, you have no idea how horrified I was when I got to the last episode of Band of Brothers and found myself seeing Winters/Nixon slash. RPS involving decorated military heroes. Can't get any lower than that. (But really, if this were a fictional series? Those two have all the hallmarks of a *great* lasting slash pairing. The overwhelming pretty. Deep friendship despite radically different personalities. Humor. Angst. Kick-ass chemistry. Willingness to go the distance for the sake of the friendship. Annnnnd here I go again with being squicked.)

Me too!