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.)
Gah! Was reading Stargate whitefont and it turned into Spooks whitefont!
I haven't gone seeking Atlantis slash yet, but Brighid's Sheppard/McKay story turned me into happy mush.
In an attempt at procrastination:
Profile of Paul McGillon, who plays Dr. Beckett (Although I still think of him as the cutie-patootie husband from "Small Potatoes".)
1. The show took America
by storm?
O-kay. Whatever you say, Bob.
2. Huh. So his Scottish accent is genuine-ish. I remember people railing at his "bad Scottish accent" after the pilot. Guess it's sort of like Glen Quinn and his Irish accent.
3. "It's 12-hour days mostly, and that's brilliant as it lets you do other things." What other things?? Either the dude is on crack or my work ethics have really taken a dive recently. If you sleep 7 hours of the remaining 12 hours of the day, that leaves you with only 5 hours for commuting/eating/TV-watching!
Maybe the 12 hour days let him have 3 or 4 day weekends?
