This is a shallow post

[swatkat]

This came up while chatting with 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.

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[labellamafia494.livejournal.com]

See, I'm always shallow. Even in Wicked, my Elphie has a "pretty" face, despite its greeness. *g*

And then if a character happens to be my type, if I didn't find them particularly attractive at first, I will later on when the fannish glee comes. Like Grey's Anatomy's Addison (what is it with this medical show obsession although we usually *loathe* the genre?) or Maureen in Rent.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Of course Elphie is pretty! She looks like this. *points to icon*

And then if a character happens to be my type, if I didn't find them particularly attractive at first, I will later on when the fannish glee comes. Like Grey's Anatomy's Addison

Word, word. And I've been resisting Grey's Anatomy (they just started airing) - enough with the medical shows already! (and I can't afford to watch even more tv)

what is it with this medical show obsession although we usually *loathe* the genre?

I blame the pretty. And the fact that we are shallow.