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This is a shallow post
May. 3rd, 2006 08:47 pmThis came up while chatting with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jaybee65 this morning, and now I have a very shallow confession to make - I don't always get into a show or a character unless the actor is someone I like to look at. The real reason I started watching Angel? I was channel-surfing one day and S3's scruffy!glasses!Wesley caught my eye and I couldn't look away, although it was a silly vampire show (I know, I know). And while I have grown to completely, absolutely love everything about House (except maybe the fandom, which is batshit. of course, so is HP, so maybe I'll get used to it), the reason why I *started* watching, inspite of the fact that I *hate* doctor shows, is because everyone is so darn pretty (then House quoted the philosopher Jagger, and I was in love). And I don't care at all for Smallville, but sometimes I watch it just to look at Tom Welling.
(hello, new people! please make yourselves comfortable. i'm not always this shallow)
ETA: Oddly, I don't care at all if the characters in a book are pretty or not. Emma!Hermione, pretty is she is, is nothing like my!Hermione, who's a plain girl who *can* look good when she's all glammed up but doesn't particularly care about it. Hmm. Does the nature of the medium condition our expectations of it? Television = visual medium = eye candy?
There. Not so shallow anymore.
jaybee65 this morning, and now I have a very shallow confession to make - I don't always get into a show or a character unless the actor is someone I like to look at. The real reason I started watching Angel? I was channel-surfing one day and S3's scruffy!glasses!Wesley caught my eye and I couldn't look away, although it was a silly vampire show (I know, I know). And while I have grown to completely, absolutely love everything about House (except maybe the fandom, which is batshit. of course, so is HP, so maybe I'll get used to it), the reason why I *started* watching, inspite of the fact that I *hate* doctor shows, is because everyone is so darn pretty (then House quoted the philosopher Jagger, and I was in love). And I don't care at all for Smallville, but sometimes I watch it just to look at Tom Welling.(hello, new people! please make yourselves comfortable. i'm not always this shallow)
ETA: Oddly, I don't care at all if the characters in a book are pretty or not. Emma!Hermione, pretty is she is, is nothing like my!Hermione, who's a plain girl who *can* look good when she's all glammed up but doesn't particularly care about it. Hmm. Does the nature of the medium condition our expectations of it? Television = visual medium = eye candy?
There. Not so shallow anymore.
