this is a viable skill, yes?
It only took me 3 brief shots and two lines of dialogue to realize that a random guest character on Xena was played by Marton Csokas. He was tied to a cross at the time, which may have helped. In my mind Marton Csokas is permanently associated with bondage, ok, don't judge me
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Oh, good. I was wondering how they'd make a movie work around that. (Er, I knew that they couldn't do that in the movie, but that was the main thing I remembered about the cartoon besides Aeon's impossibly tiny waist, so I wasn't sure how the movie would do without the cartoon's main gimmick.)
Heeey, I didn't know Edward Norton was in Kingdom of Heaven! I enjoy Edward Norton greatly (though I...have very mixed feelings about Fight Club) and am always looking for more movies he's been in. Didn't know David Thewlis and Eva Green were in it either. I will have to check this movie out as well.
You know Karl Urban was a Rider of Rohan in LotR? Eomer, I think.
I did know that! That is actually what I remembered him from when I saw his name in the cast list of Star Trek, which was very surprising because I wouldn't have matched the two characters by sight. And because I thought McCoy was very, very handsome while Eomer was all-right-looking. I think his blond hair in LotR didn't really work for me; the length was okay, but it looked overbleached and strange and didn't match his very brown stubble and eyebrows.
Lawless and Urban are smoking but the sexual banter is gloriously bad.
Isn't that true of most sexy banter, though? Something that just sounds silly when said under everyday circumstances suddenly works when one's in the right frame of mind, i.e. when one's watching Lucy Lawless and Karl Urban sex each other up. ;) Besides, I've seen Lucy Lawless on Burn Notice and some of her dialogue was...very cookie-cutter (it wasn't the strongest episode) but worked well enough because it was Lucy Lawless talking and she can give even the most blatant pick-up line a lovely frisson.
I admit the Prowl-Spock thing is mostly because I visually associated Spock's pointy ears and Prowl's pointy glasses. And Optimus mostly got kicked out of the Academy because Sentinel Prime is a big jerk rather than because of anything he did, but the parallels are amusing nonetheless.
Given your fanon that Kirk is at least familiar with old SFF and pulp, do you think he'd be familiar with the giant robot oeuvre? Given that a metric ton of giant robot shows have come out of Japan, I can't imagine that slowing down into the 21st and 22nd century, so Kirk might have a passing familiarity with the concept of large sentient robots if nothing else, and would appropriately geek out over the Autobots when he encountered them. Which would be adorable.
I'm also wondering if even Kirk would have to give up on hitting on the bots. I'm thinking despite geeking out over giant robots even he would see their scale as something of a deal-breaker. Or maybe not.
dammit now you're making me want to write fic and I can't be writing fic because I'm working and homework is more important than fic and I already have 200 words of Blitzwing fic that I'm supposed to be finishing. STOP WITH THE ENABLING. :<
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