Random Fandom Fun Poll #14

[gryfndor_godess]

Today is the last poll!  Thank you so much for participating.  I had a lot of fun these past two weeks, and I hope you did, too.  :)

I saved the crackiest question for last.  #And I'm serious.  #And I feel NO SHAME.  :D

In the post-Chosen book Queen of the Slayers, by Nancy Holder, there is an extremely bizarre plot device in the form of an angelic

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[treadingthedark]

Spike's eyes, Spike's smile. I picked Spike's eyes because Angel has kinda beady eyes.

Honestly I can't really pull his smile up in my memory but in general I only find Angel attractive in Season one and part of season 2. By season five of Angel I found him particularly unattractive. He really didn't travel well.

[gryfndor_godess]

I'll have to look at DB's eyes more closely the next time I watch Bones. I think I can picture what you mean.

Yeah, DB was definitely less attractive by the end of AtS. He'd gained a lot of weight and didn't wear it well. I think I read that he had a knee injury or something around that time, so maybe he had trouble keeping in shape? He's very slim nowadays, although I still prefer the way he looked as Angel overall.

[rahirah]

There was some gossip going around that in addition to the injury, he stopped working out for the same reason JM did - he got tired of the writers whipping his shirt off all the time.

[gryfndor_godess]

Really?? Inntteerresting. I didn't know JM did that on purpose. I missed shirtless!JM after S6...

[rahirah]

Oh, yeah, he's mentioned it in Q&As lots of times. As I understand it, it was partly that, and partly that it's just really effing hard to stay in that kind of shape all the time, because it's not just a matter of working out, you also have to maintain a VERY strict diet to get the ultra-ripped look, particularly if your metabolism doesn't happen to run towards very low body fat naturally.

(Now mind, I think he looked just fine in S4 and 5, when he wasn't starving himself for the ultra-ripped look, but I get the impression that JM, like a lot of actors, has some body image issues. And with Hollywood's passion for the super thin, I can't really blame them.)

[gryfndor_godess]

I liked him a lot in S4 and S5. He looks good in S7, but it is a very noticeable change from S6; his face looks a lot older, which could have come from the stress of "Seeing Red" etc., alone, never mind the weight gain...

[samsom]

I'm probably only one of a small handful of people who liked Angel's extra weight. He got...cuddly. *sheepish*

But I did hear it was due to a knee injury, so I can't say I blame the guy. Maintaining Hollywood's standard of sexy has got to be hard over time, but with a knee injury it's probably doubley so.

[gryfndor_godess]

I can see cuddly. :) I think I might like him better with a little extra than as the bean-pole way he was in very early BtVS.