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elspethdixon) wrote2006-02-21 04:23 pm
elspethdixon) wrote2006-02-21 04:23 pm
DVD Watching is Love
I spent some serious quality time watching Magnificent Seven with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pixyofthestyx this weekend (in between attempting and failing to randomly meet up with Hollins people at Katsucon, visiting the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History whilst still in costume, and getting lost on the DC Metro, again still in costume, but at least I removed the cravat and hat), and damn but that show is adorable. Why didn’t I notice how friggin’ cute all those guys were back when I watched it in high school? I swear, they beat out SGA-1 and the cast of Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years to rival MASH unit 4077 and Sharpe and the Chosen Men in the aborable-ness stakes, and only a tiny handful of Barbara Hambly characters surpass them (except when it comes to the woobie factor. No one, not even John Sheppard or Hawkeye Pierce, can out-woobie Major Richard Sharpe as played by Sean Bean. The utterly betrayed and emotionally destroyed look on his face during the court-martial scene in Sharpe’s Honour? Defines woobie).
Also, it turns out that Ezra Standish is about three inches shorter, fifteen pounds lighter, and five years younger than my fourteen-year-old self remembers him being. And based on the “in drag” shots in “Working Girls,” Anthony Stark’s waist is approximately the same size as mine. *boggles* I always thought that those fic writers who made Ezra all fragile-looking and small and [insert smarminess and purple prose using the word ‘orbs’ here] were channeling bad Sentinal fic vibes. Turns out they’re only exagerating about 1/3 as much as I thought they were.
The people who turn Vin Tanner into an emotionally fragile uke, though? Still on crack.
pixyofthestyx this weekend (in between attempting and failing to randomly meet up with Hollins people at Katsucon, visiting the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History whilst still in costume, and getting lost on the DC Metro, again still in costume, but at least I removed the cravat and hat), and damn but that show is adorable. Why didn’t I notice how friggin’ cute all those guys were back when I watched it in high school? I swear, they beat out SGA-1 and the cast of Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years to rival MASH unit 4077 and Sharpe and the Chosen Men in the aborable-ness stakes, and only a tiny handful of Barbara Hambly characters surpass them (except when it comes to the woobie factor. No one, not even John Sheppard or Hawkeye Pierce, can out-woobie Major Richard Sharpe as played by Sean Bean. The utterly betrayed and emotionally destroyed look on his face during the court-martial scene in Sharpe’s Honour? Defines woobie).Also, it turns out that Ezra Standish is about three inches shorter, fifteen pounds lighter, and five years younger than my fourteen-year-old self remembers him being. And based on the “in drag” shots in “Working Girls,” Anthony Stark’s waist is approximately the same size as mine. *boggles* I always thought that those fic writers who made Ezra all fragile-looking and small and [insert smarminess and purple prose using the word ‘orbs’ here] were channeling bad Sentinal fic vibes. Turns out they’re only exagerating about 1/3 as much as I thought they were.
The people who turn Vin Tanner into an emotionally fragile uke, though? Still on crack.
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That's the one. In retrospect, I think that scene is the precise moment I fell in love with Sharpe. He's such a bastard when he hates people, and I don't mean in the legal sense.
Sword is so insanely slashy that they couldn't deslashify it if they tried -- and I think they did. So much Sharpe/Harper interaction got sacrificed so that mute chick could get some of Sharpe's magical healing cock ... yet at the same time, Sharpe's relationship with Jack Spears went from friendly rivalry to raging man-crush, I thought he was going to kiss him in the library, I've seen Westerns with less UST than this, woa.
Of course, I love Sharpe/Teresa as much as Sharpe/Harper. There's a distinct danger of me writing a ship manifesto for them, after 1. I finish the series and 2. I magically cease to be lazy. Something about hot, competent, heavily-armed women with accents ...