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*

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[loz]

5'10" isn't short. At least, it's taller than my dad and I've never thought of him as short. Height is relative ;)

I, er, I often call him beautiful, but he's not really conventionally handsome. He has a striking face, in certain contexts - the grin, the eyes, that ability to have ten different emotions playing at one time. But... mmm. I confess I'm fairly sure I've said that neither he nor Phil are particularly good looking.

Striking, yes.

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Mostly when his face is in motion, really. Pictures don't do him justice.

Okay... so you'd say it's the "tall co-stars" explanation. Hmm... but two people who've seen him say he's short...

I would have to know what 5'10'' is in m and cm to settle this for myself once and for all, I guess. But I'm too lazy to look it up. *g*

Re: Striking, yes.

[loz]

Some pictures do. There are a couple I could stare at for hours.

177.80 cm :p

True.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

But you kind of have to see several different ones to get the full appeal.

But, yeah. Any pic in which he smiles or grins pretty much does it for me. *g*

177.80

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Well... that's a bit shorter than my dad, and my dad's a different generation, of course (born in 1944) - younger men tend to be taller. So, yeah, that would be below average for a guy of John Simm's generation, I think - but not dramatically so. So it seems to be a combination of *relative* shortness and tall co-stars. *g*

I'm always amused by that scene in 1.01 where Sam stumbles along the street, totally confused, bumping into people - and nearly all the people are women, and nearly all of them are taller than him. And him wearing cuban heels, too! *g*

Re: Striking, yes.

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

He can't be 5'10". Seriously. He's wee-er than Fi for definite. I'd put him more at 5'8", perhaps?

(Still much taller than me, I'm afraid - I'm well wee.)

Maybe he's 5'10''...

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in cuban heels? *g*

Re: Are you sure that was the process?

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

I'm just under 5'8", and I think he would be around that size because he appears to be the same height relative to 6'1" Phil as I am to my 6'1" brother. *G* If that isn't too convuluted to you all....

[loz]

Okay then, John's been lying again. Hah.

Maybe he's like me and honestly doesn't know his exact height.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I mean, I sort of know, but I'd be hard pressed to put an exact number to it. Could be 1.65m, could be 1.67m.

We need an icon or something.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

>I confess I'm fairly sure I've said that neither he nor Phil are particularly good looking.

See above for my 'potato farmer' statement. The same could be said about Philip Glenister, only more so. *g*

(The icon would read somewhat like this: "Handsome? Not really. Sexy as hell? Ohhhhh YES!")

This all reminds me of a reaction a couple of my friends had when watching LoM after a steady diet of American TV: "Wow! The people in this look like people!" *g*

Re: We need an icon or something.

[loz]

Only more so? Surely you jest? Phil's smoking hot. Heh. (The thing is, I'm not being sarcastic, I mean it. I just --- mmmm. Hahahaha.)

I didn't say he wasn't hot!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I just said he looked even more like a potato farmer than John Simm does. I didn't say anything about the sexiness value of potato farmers.

;-P