As she sat staring at videoclips of John Simm

[hmpf]

You know, I still haven't made up my mind about whether he's good-looking or not. And that after a year and a half or so of fancying him.

I know he's *attractive*, in some hard to define way. But, good-looking? I don't know. I just don't know.

The journalist who called him "ugly-handsome", ages ago, was wrong, though. He's not ugly. Just kind of... utterly "normal" looking, sort of. Sometimes. Unspectacular, unremarkable.

And then something happens, now and then, and he turns... "startlingly attractive", I think some other journalist put it. And yeah, it is startling. Kind of mind-boggling, really.

*boggles*

I'm also amused by how he seems to be always the short one. Is he really that short, or do they just always team him up with giants?

Yikes, I'm looking at celebrity pics. What's wrong with me? *g*

Comments

Re: Not that unpleasant a character?

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

>And this is one of the reasons I am really, really doubtful about the whole Ashes to Ashes project - since Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah obviously thought they'd written a fine and dandy ending to Sam's story, what's to prevent them from writing an equally lame conclusion to Alex Drake's adventures?

Not to mention that Alex Drake's adventures sound immensely lame from the beginning! Like lifted directly from the pit of voles... Seriously, who ever thought that repeating essentially the same thing, only this time with a young female in Sam's place, would be a good idea? I'll never understand that, I'm afraid.

Re: Not that unpleasant a character?

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

Because the premise went from: "Oh, folk really like this. They like the nostalgia and the chases and the bitching. Let's do it again. But in the eighties. With big hair."

Which is a fine premise, if that's what you were watching for.

Then, of course, they ruined it. "Oh, something even better. We'll send a *woman* back and then we can add sexual tension. That always pulls in the public!"

Of course, as AJ and MG have written for soaps in the past (with very high ratings) they fail to realise that the people who watch this kind of drama is not likely to appreciate the soap style.

Sigh.

Are you sure that was the process?

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I get the feeling it may have been more like: "Ooooh, we really like Gene Hunt. We really, REALLY like Gene Hunt. We like him so much we'd almost like to go to bed with him... or at least have a character go to bed with him. But we can't have Sam go to bed with him, can we? ... Wait a minute!"

;-)

Re: Are you sure that was the process?

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Yeah, that sounds about right...

Yes *that* was the process.

[loz]

LMFAO.

Win.