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Top fives! Overloading on verbosity/picspamminess, as usual. If there are any more you'd like for me to do, feel free to give your suggestions in the comments.
From arcadiaego: Five favourite Robin Hood moments.
I'm actually still in the midst of compiling my super top secret Robin Hood appreciation picspam thingy, and fear I might render that one prematurely obsolete by just busting out the highlights version ahead of time. Plus, come now, let's be honest. You already know what all of them are. GUY. MARIAN. GUY. MARIAN MARIAN MAZZA BEAUTIFUL MARIAN. GUY AND MARIAN MAKE OUT. I am what some might call 'predictable.' So anyway, I'm going to choose to instead interpret this as top five moments not of RH the show but of the titular dude himself, moments that made me go, Sir Hoodie, I amazingly enough do not want to punch you in the face right now. Or maybe I do, but in a charmingly smitten way.
1. Robin goes undercover as a totally pimped out nobleman in 3.11. WHY ON EARTH DID THE SHOW TAKE THREE YEARS TO GIVE US THIS? It. Was. Glorious.
Sure, its original owner was rockin' the mustache, but Robin certainly did the coat justice.
2. 3.13. "Can you do this?" "Of course I can. I am Robin Hood." GUYS. I CHEERED. ...And then I bawled for the rest of the episode. Just. Gahhh. Show, way to make me finally fall truly madly deeply for the protagonist in the final episode.
3. Super adorable window flirting from 1.07...
Marian: What?
Robin: Nothing.
Marian: You were looking at me.
Robin: That's just the way my eyes were pointing.
Just... hee. I rag on poor Giz quite a bit for his awful "let's make babies" pick-up lines but, well, Robs isn't much better, is he?
4. Forest heart-to-heart in 2.08:
Much: We never talk.
Robin: Alright, let's talk.
Much: No, not if you're doing it to humor me. No!
Robin: Come on, Much!
Much: Whatever I say, you never listen to me anyway.
Robin: You know that's not true.
Much: I told you I recognized Carter from the Crusades. You didn't believe me. You'd listen to Marian, spend time with her--
Robin: Much. Stop. Alright? Old friend. You have a special place in my heart.
Much: Do I?
Robin: Do I really have to say it?
Much: No. 'Course not. [beat] ...Once in a while. Would be nice.
(Okay, transcribing this is kind of making me angry at Robin again. IT'S A CUTE SCENE. But Much still needs to get less shit from everybody. At least we have moments when they acknowledge it? Just say those three little words, Robin, it's not gonna kill ya.)
5. 3.02. "Hey! Robin! WE'RE FLYIN'!!!"
There are. No. Words.
From playingmyrole: top five things I hope to see this season on Psych. We-e-e-ell, I've kind of already spoiled myself for some of the front half of the season, so I feel like a lot of my answers would be cheating. Hmm. Things I hope to see OTHER than things I've already read about and am excited for (FRIDAY WEEK. OMGOMGOMGGGGG. Ahem)...
1. More Gus/anybody but Shawn. Basically all of my ships on the show are Shawncentric, for lo he is such a manwhore, and it makes me feel bad that there really isn't as much in the ways of Gus ships. I certainly don't mind the show keeping Shawn/Gus as the core relationship -- ummmm, durrr, that's not something that's ever going to change, or should -- but, for instance, while I enjoy Shawn/Lassiter and Shawn/Juliet, we also get to see the partnership grow between Lassiter and Jules independent of Shawn. Or while I love the Shawn/Henry dynamic, we've gotten to dive into Henry/Madeleine, too. So I'm kind of hoping to see more of Gus's goings on in a non-Shawn capacity (I miss all the S1 stuff of him hanging out with comic book geeks or going to the planetarium to flirt with cute girls; and I loved getting to see more of his workplace in 3.01. So! More of that, please!).
2. I want to see Mr. Vick. JUST ONCE.
3. MORE BUZZ. ALWAYS. Possibly a return of the little boy (girl) cat, at that.
4. Musical episode. Why have we not actioned this already? It's only a matter of time, people. Embrace its inevitability.
5. Shallow. But! I hope to see Lassiter with longer hair again.
From hulamoth: five most heroic ladies you would like to be when you grow up (or at least be BFFs with)
1. Let's be reasonable here, people. MAZZA. Of course. It's interesting because, over the course of the capslock_hood rewatches, lately it happens that I don't always find Marian as unfailingly delightful as usual (the day that the FINALE OF DOOM stops messing with my head will be... never...); and yet somehow even when I get annoyed with her she's still the BEST THING EVER? And it's almost starting to circle around and make me love her even more...? She can be bitchy and conflicted and manipulative and passive-agressive and yet that is what makes her Marian, dammit, the girl who fights for her own ideals, fuck all if they match up anybody else's; the person who decides to become a superhero in the most discrete, least flamboyant, and most actually helpful way possible; the one who is willing to see -- and to state -- the good and the bad qualities of both her doofy love interests, archenemies though they may be; the the real hero of Robin Hood, as far as I am concerned.
YES I AM RECYCLING MY OWN MACRO. IT BEARS REPEATING:
2. Katharine Hepburn, hero of my life, original Hollywood HBIC, super-glam-fabulous because she was smart and knew it and was unafraid to push people in ways they needed pushing.
3. A legitimate instance of somebody I idolized from my youth and looked up to as a role model for future life: Miss Piggy. It would seem that Miss Piggy is in many ways the complete opposite of an ideal embodiment of feminism -- a caricature of women as vapid, frivolous, bloated with self-important affectations, obsessed with personal appearance, in want of nothing but a good man frog -- but, oh, how heartily I resist that interpretation. She works hard to look that smashing, and she can still bust out kung-fu moves in heels! She's an aspiring entertainer, it's her job to do a little self-promoting. And who cares if she spends all of her time fretting over a dude? It's Kermit! He's adorable! And she's fully capable of defending and supporting him, utilizing those aforementioned martial arts skills. (Also, unrelated, but now browsing the Muppet wiki -- Miss Piggy's personal costume designer! I... I... I mean, I'm sure I knew that such a job existed, but I never allowed myself to consciously acknowledge it until now. GUYS. I HAVE A NEW LIFE AMBITION.) Hmm, anyway, I think it is becoming apparent on my list thus far that all of my cherished ladies are ones with much more confidence than I generally possess, so I think that strong loyalty to a core sense of self is a quality that I admire in my "oh, I wish I could be her!" picks. Which leads me to...
4. Amber "Cutthroat Bitch" Volakis. Again with somebody who is brilliant and who doesn't take shit from anybody; who is perhaps a tad obsessed with being right, but never let's that stand in the way of working as hard as possible to find the answer, even if it means she has to risk being wrong; and who, at the end of the day, is a doctor who helps people, why is this not mentioned more often?? "Oh, she's cutthroat; oh, all she cares about is winning; oh, she eats her coworkers for breakfast." Dudes. If all she wanted to do was stomp people into the ground and rip out their still-beating hearts and cash it in the bank, why is she wasting her time toiling away at being a doctor when she could be some highpowered business executive? I think she's shown on multiple occasions that she really does care about patient needs (I mean, Taub is the one who says "I care about my wallpaper more than I care about the patient," yet Amber's the bitchy one? Come on!). So I think she's heroic for committing herself to a job that's she's good at and that provides tangible benefit to others, not just to herself.
5. Should find it worrisome that almost all of my personal heroes are fictional? Oh well. I dithered quite a bit over who to put in this last spot, but I think I'm going to have to come down on Jane Eyre. It's been ages since I last read the book, so I might feel differently about it now, but she was the chick who rocked my prepubescent world. I like that she manages to overcome her hatreds and jealousies, that she's moral but not judgmental, that she's forgiving of the faults of others but still holds herself to her own personal standards, that she says "here is a line I will not cross" and then really truly means it and sticks to it. LIKE A BOSS.
Also from hulamoth: five most bangable dudes. I am totally going to cheat on this one and do it TWICE, muahahaha!! ...Mostly because when I started compiling it I was like, dammit, every time I do one of these "most crushable" list things, it's always the same people over and over! Not that there's anything wrong with tried and true classics, but it'd be nice to have some variety. So. First list is my standard go-to list of ALWAYS WILL BE BANGABLE dudes, and then the second is my list of dudes who don't always come up on first thought but, at the moment, have suddenly struck me with their bangability.
Classics!
1. ARMITAGE. Again with the obvious!
How does this man even exist? How???
2. John Sheppard. Man, I'm already cheating -- I was going to try to stick with one picture per dude, because otherwise this post would get really ridiculous really quickly -- but. DSFJLSDJF;LAFJSD;A My love for John Sheppard cannot be contained in a single picture. Anyway, feel glad that I managed to restrain myself from posting every instance of Shepbondage on the show (so, here, have a fanvid of it instead!). Plus, nnnngg, that turtleneck deserves a post of its own.
3. My mantra while watching Chuck: DO ME JOHN CASEY.
4. Prince Arthur. I'll be honest, the fact that he is generally a giant ass only makes me love him more. ...I really am attracted to the wrong sort of people, and this would be why I don't date much.
Gahhh, the entirety of 1.04 is just "UNF UNF UNFFFF ARTHUR" (um, seriously, even Merlin is gettin' on board with that). The smooth jacket! The knight in shining armor! The brave friend and valiant son!
5. SPIKE! Even though I've always been Team Angel, Spike is definitely the more bangable of the two (he won't go evil and eat your friends, anyway. He's already evil! How convenient!).
...But, again, that's pretty much the same list I post every time. So, um, some alternative "let's mix it up a bit" picks.
1. Blake Lewis. HATERS TO THE LEFT. I haven't really thought much about him in a bangable way in some time, but he has a new album coming out soon and somebody just posted a picspam over at cakeforever and, ahemmmm, certain feelings came flooding back. I DON'T CARE THAT HE HAS GOOFY HAIR. I DON'T CARE THAT NOBODY BUT ME BOUGHT HIS CD. I DON'T CARE THAT HIS MUSIC VIDEO IS AWFUL AND EMBARRASSING. He's tiny and ridiculous and, again, seems like the kind of person who would probably be kind of annoying if you actually had to be around them for any extended period of time... but whateverrr. He is sparkly purple bangability:
And now I am going through my AI6 folder and am slightly embarrassed by how huge it is. That season was just fully fabulous. I mean, remember this performance, when the whole world when "whaaaaat" followed by "...but, seriously. DO ME ON IT"? The whole aesthetic reminds me of a wildberry poptart, but, dammit, those are some tasty poptarts.
2. Archer. During the EXTREME MACRO phase at capslock_hood, I tried futilely to put together an Archer macro but just couldn't get it to come out right -- because every time I'd start writing on something it's just like, honestly folks, I just really want to bang him, okay? I don't know what else to say.
3. Thanks to a combo of recent rewatching of both Repo! and Merlin -- Anthony Stewart Head. Definition of DILF.
4. Timothy Dalton. I will watch this man in anything, and I don't even know why. Other than the fact that he is clearly fabulous.
5. Watching Big Wolf on Campus lately, I have been struck once again by how much Tommy looks like Ioan Gruffudd. WHAT. HE DOES. But whereas Tommy is sweet and adorable and innocent and not in the least way bangable, whaaaaaaaaat Ioan Gruffudd OMFG. I haven't watched him in anything in ages but, whatever, he is so fantastically beautiful.
An honorable mention goes to Patrick Wilson, who I did mean to include but then remembered too late. AUGH!
...That's hot.
From maddeinin: Top five shows you think EVERYONE should watch.
I wasn't sure whether to approach this as the five shows I think would appeal to everybody, or the five shows I wish would appeal to everybody (because, geez, imagine a world where everybody watched and enjoyed BWoC! Actually... don't, that would be a scary place. Plus half the fun is knowing that it's horrible and appeals to nobody). I think I'm going to go with the former, so... shows that I think the majority of people would enjoy, and if you haven't watched them you are sorely missing out.
1. Boy Meets World. My childhood, in a nutshell. It's funny and heartwarming and sweet and everything I need to know I learned from Mr. Feeny. It's hard for me to imagine anybody in my age bracket who wasn't raised on this show but, well, maybe some people had real lives...? But I doubt it.
2. Psych. Again with the shows that win their appeal via comedy -- who doesn't want to sit down and laugh for an hour straight on Friday nights? But what I really love about it is how well it balances the zaniness with very very real characters and relationship dynamics. I think the parental strain between Shawn and Henry, or the epic BFFitude between Shawn and Gus, or any of the variety of other pairings on the show are all things that viewers can relate to; so instead of just random weekly hijinks, it's something ongoing that people can get invested in and look forward to watching these specific people every episode.
3. Lost. Hey, look, here's my massively biased opinion, but I feel like Lost is such a perfect something-for-everybody show. With zillions of characters, backstories, plotlines, and daddy issues, there has got to be at least something that can resonate, right? Plus there's that whole part where, oh yeah, it's absolutely brilliant, even when it makes me want to end myself with pain/woe/frustration/etc. It seems that what usually keeps people from watching this is the fact that "It's so confusing! I don't know what's going on!" but then I always hear that from people who, y'know, skip around and don't watch for months and then try to watch a random episode and are confused. I realize that not everybody has the time or the desire to commit to a show, but I don't think there's anything wrong with a narrative that expects you to pay attention to every part of the narrative in order for it to make sense. Even without all the extra online/book/tie-in RPG stuff, I think the show still works perfectly for people who just tune in once a week and watch the show itself, and nothing else (that's what my parents do, and they still love it). So it works for nerdy and non-nerdy types alike!
4. Crusoe. Man, I WISH this was a show that everybody watched! I feel so bad for everybody involved in it because it should have been super popular and instead they probably lost SO SO MUCH MONEY on this one -- which is just a lesson to networks that viewers aren't going to pay attention to gorgeous location shooting, great production values, lush costumes, etc. etc. WHAT GIVES, TV VIEWERS. YOU CONFUSE ME. It has pirates! Booby traps! Treasure! Comedy! Drama! Romance! Mysterious hidden pasts! Father/son angst! Adorable bromance! Fluffy puppies! Sexy dudes! Bitchin' ladies! I... man. Seriously. More people should have liked this show.
5. Star Trek. There's so much canon to choose from! Take your pick, I'm sure something will work.
From arcadiaego: Five favourite Robin Hood moments.
I'm actually still in the midst of compiling my super top secret Robin Hood appreciation picspam thingy, and fear I might render that one prematurely obsolete by just busting out the highlights version ahead of time. Plus, come now, let's be honest. You already know what all of them are. GUY. MARIAN. GUY. MARIAN MARIAN MAZZA BEAUTIFUL MARIAN. GUY AND MARIAN MAKE OUT. I am what some might call 'predictable.' So anyway, I'm going to choose to instead interpret this as top five moments not of RH the show but of the titular dude himself, moments that made me go, Sir Hoodie, I amazingly enough do not want to punch you in the face right now. Or maybe I do, but in a charmingly smitten way.
1. Robin goes undercover as a totally pimped out nobleman in 3.11. WHY ON EARTH DID THE SHOW TAKE THREE YEARS TO GIVE US THIS? It. Was. Glorious.
Sure, its original owner was rockin' the mustache, but Robin certainly did the coat justice.
2. 3.13. "Can you do this?" "Of course I can. I am Robin Hood." GUYS. I CHEERED. ...And then I bawled for the rest of the episode. Just. Gahhh. Show, way to make me finally fall truly madly deeply for the protagonist in the final episode.
3. Super adorable window flirting from 1.07...
Marian: What?
Robin: Nothing.
Marian: You were looking at me.
Robin: That's just the way my eyes were pointing.
Just... hee. I rag on poor Giz quite a bit for his awful "let's make babies" pick-up lines but, well, Robs isn't much better, is he?
4. Forest heart-to-heart in 2.08:
Much: We never talk.
Robin: Alright, let's talk.
Much: No, not if you're doing it to humor me. No!
Robin: Come on, Much!
Much: Whatever I say, you never listen to me anyway.
Robin: You know that's not true.
Much: I told you I recognized Carter from the Crusades. You didn't believe me. You'd listen to Marian, spend time with her--
Robin: Much. Stop. Alright? Old friend. You have a special place in my heart.
Much: Do I?
Robin: Do I really have to say it?
Much: No. 'Course not. [beat] ...Once in a while. Would be nice.
(Okay, transcribing this is kind of making me angry at Robin again. IT'S A CUTE SCENE. But Much still needs to get less shit from everybody. At least we have moments when they acknowledge it? Just say those three little words, Robin, it's not gonna kill ya.)
5. 3.02. "Hey! Robin! WE'RE FLYIN'!!!"
There are. No. Words.
From playingmyrole: top five things I hope to see this season on Psych. We-e-e-ell, I've kind of already spoiled myself for some of the front half of the season, so I feel like a lot of my answers would be cheating. Hmm. Things I hope to see OTHER than things I've already read about and am excited for (FRIDAY WEEK. OMGOMGOMGGGGG. Ahem)...
1. More Gus/anybody but Shawn. Basically all of my ships on the show are Shawncentric, for lo he is such a manwhore, and it makes me feel bad that there really isn't as much in the ways of Gus ships. I certainly don't mind the show keeping Shawn/Gus as the core relationship -- ummmm, durrr, that's not something that's ever going to change, or should -- but, for instance, while I enjoy Shawn/Lassiter and Shawn/Juliet, we also get to see the partnership grow between Lassiter and Jules independent of Shawn. Or while I love the Shawn/Henry dynamic, we've gotten to dive into Henry/Madeleine, too. So I'm kind of hoping to see more of Gus's goings on in a non-Shawn capacity (I miss all the S1 stuff of him hanging out with comic book geeks or going to the planetarium to flirt with cute girls; and I loved getting to see more of his workplace in 3.01. So! More of that, please!).
2. I want to see Mr. Vick. JUST ONCE.
3. MORE BUZZ. ALWAYS. Possibly a return of the little boy (girl) cat, at that.
4. Musical episode. Why have we not actioned this already? It's only a matter of time, people. Embrace its inevitability.
5. Shallow. But! I hope to see Lassiter with longer hair again.
From hulamoth: five most heroic ladies you would like to be when you grow up (or at least be BFFs with)
1. Let's be reasonable here, people. MAZZA. Of course. It's interesting because, over the course of the capslock_hood rewatches, lately it happens that I don't always find Marian as unfailingly delightful as usual (the day that the FINALE OF DOOM stops messing with my head will be... never...); and yet somehow even when I get annoyed with her she's still the BEST THING EVER? And it's almost starting to circle around and make me love her even more...? She can be bitchy and conflicted and manipulative and passive-agressive and yet that is what makes her Marian, dammit, the girl who fights for her own ideals, fuck all if they match up anybody else's; the person who decides to become a superhero in the most discrete, least flamboyant, and most actually helpful way possible; the one who is willing to see -- and to state -- the good and the bad qualities of both her doofy love interests, archenemies though they may be; the the real hero of Robin Hood, as far as I am concerned.
YES I AM RECYCLING MY OWN MACRO. IT BEARS REPEATING:
2. Katharine Hepburn, hero of my life, original Hollywood HBIC, super-glam-fabulous because she was smart and knew it and was unafraid to push people in ways they needed pushing.
3. A legitimate instance of somebody I idolized from my youth and looked up to as a role model for future life: Miss Piggy. It would seem that Miss Piggy is in many ways the complete opposite of an ideal embodiment of feminism -- a caricature of women as vapid, frivolous, bloated with self-important affectations, obsessed with personal appearance, in want of nothing but a good man frog -- but, oh, how heartily I resist that interpretation. She works hard to look that smashing, and she can still bust out kung-fu moves in heels! She's an aspiring entertainer, it's her job to do a little self-promoting. And who cares if she spends all of her time fretting over a dude? It's Kermit! He's adorable! And she's fully capable of defending and supporting him, utilizing those aforementioned martial arts skills. (Also, unrelated, but now browsing the Muppet wiki -- Miss Piggy's personal costume designer! I... I... I mean, I'm sure I knew that such a job existed, but I never allowed myself to consciously acknowledge it until now. GUYS. I HAVE A NEW LIFE AMBITION.) Hmm, anyway, I think it is becoming apparent on my list thus far that all of my cherished ladies are ones with much more confidence than I generally possess, so I think that strong loyalty to a core sense of self is a quality that I admire in my "oh, I wish I could be her!" picks. Which leads me to...
4. Amber "Cutthroat Bitch" Volakis. Again with somebody who is brilliant and who doesn't take shit from anybody; who is perhaps a tad obsessed with being right, but never let's that stand in the way of working as hard as possible to find the answer, even if it means she has to risk being wrong; and who, at the end of the day, is a doctor who helps people, why is this not mentioned more often?? "Oh, she's cutthroat; oh, all she cares about is winning; oh, she eats her coworkers for breakfast." Dudes. If all she wanted to do was stomp people into the ground and rip out their still-beating hearts and cash it in the bank, why is she wasting her time toiling away at being a doctor when she could be some highpowered business executive? I think she's shown on multiple occasions that she really does care about patient needs (I mean, Taub is the one who says "I care about my wallpaper more than I care about the patient," yet Amber's the bitchy one? Come on!). So I think she's heroic for committing herself to a job that's she's good at and that provides tangible benefit to others, not just to herself.
5. Should find it worrisome that almost all of my personal heroes are fictional? Oh well. I dithered quite a bit over who to put in this last spot, but I think I'm going to have to come down on Jane Eyre. It's been ages since I last read the book, so I might feel differently about it now, but she was the chick who rocked my prepubescent world. I like that she manages to overcome her hatreds and jealousies, that she's moral but not judgmental, that she's forgiving of the faults of others but still holds herself to her own personal standards, that she says "here is a line I will not cross" and then really truly means it and sticks to it. LIKE A BOSS.
Also from hulamoth: five most bangable dudes. I am totally going to cheat on this one and do it TWICE, muahahaha!! ...Mostly because when I started compiling it I was like, dammit, every time I do one of these "most crushable" list things, it's always the same people over and over! Not that there's anything wrong with tried and true classics, but it'd be nice to have some variety. So. First list is my standard go-to list of ALWAYS WILL BE BANGABLE dudes, and then the second is my list of dudes who don't always come up on first thought but, at the moment, have suddenly struck me with their bangability.
Classics!
1. ARMITAGE. Again with the obvious!
How does this man even exist? How???
2. John Sheppard. Man, I'm already cheating -- I was going to try to stick with one picture per dude, because otherwise this post would get really ridiculous really quickly -- but. DSFJLSDJF;LAFJSD;A My love for John Sheppard cannot be contained in a single picture. Anyway, feel glad that I managed to restrain myself from posting every instance of Shepbondage on the show (so, here, have a fanvid of it instead!). Plus, nnnngg, that turtleneck deserves a post of its own.
3. My mantra while watching Chuck: DO ME JOHN CASEY.
4. Prince Arthur. I'll be honest, the fact that he is generally a giant ass only makes me love him more. ...I really am attracted to the wrong sort of people, and this would be why I don't date much.
Gahhh, the entirety of 1.04 is just "UNF UNF UNFFFF ARTHUR" (um, seriously, even Merlin is gettin' on board with that). The smooth jacket! The knight in shining armor! The brave friend and valiant son!
5. SPIKE! Even though I've always been Team Angel, Spike is definitely the more bangable of the two (he won't go evil and eat your friends, anyway. He's already evil! How convenient!).
...But, again, that's pretty much the same list I post every time. So, um, some alternative "let's mix it up a bit" picks.
1. Blake Lewis. HATERS TO THE LEFT. I haven't really thought much about him in a bangable way in some time, but he has a new album coming out soon and somebody just posted a picspam over at cakeforever and, ahemmmm, certain feelings came flooding back. I DON'T CARE THAT HE HAS GOOFY HAIR. I DON'T CARE THAT NOBODY BUT ME BOUGHT HIS CD. I DON'T CARE THAT HIS MUSIC VIDEO IS AWFUL AND EMBARRASSING. He's tiny and ridiculous and, again, seems like the kind of person who would probably be kind of annoying if you actually had to be around them for any extended period of time... but whateverrr. He is sparkly purple bangability:
And now I am going through my AI6 folder and am slightly embarrassed by how huge it is. That season was just fully fabulous. I mean, remember this performance, when the whole world when "whaaaaat" followed by "...but, seriously. DO ME ON IT"? The whole aesthetic reminds me of a wildberry poptart, but, dammit, those are some tasty poptarts.
Click to view2. Archer. During the EXTREME MACRO phase at capslock_hood, I tried futilely to put together an Archer macro but just couldn't get it to come out right -- because every time I'd start writing on something it's just like, honestly folks, I just really want to bang him, okay? I don't know what else to say.
3. Thanks to a combo of recent rewatching of both Repo! and Merlin -- Anthony Stewart Head. Definition of DILF.
4. Timothy Dalton. I will watch this man in anything, and I don't even know why. Other than the fact that he is clearly fabulous.
5. Watching Big Wolf on Campus lately, I have been struck once again by how much Tommy looks like Ioan Gruffudd. WHAT. HE DOES. But whereas Tommy is sweet and adorable and innocent and not in the least way bangable, whaaaaaaaaat Ioan Gruffudd OMFG. I haven't watched him in anything in ages but, whatever, he is so fantastically beautiful.
An honorable mention goes to Patrick Wilson, who I did mean to include but then remembered too late. AUGH!
...That's hot.
From maddeinin: Top five shows you think EVERYONE should watch.
I wasn't sure whether to approach this as the five shows I think would appeal to everybody, or the five shows I wish would appeal to everybody (because, geez, imagine a world where everybody watched and enjoyed BWoC! Actually... don't, that would be a scary place. Plus half the fun is knowing that it's horrible and appeals to nobody). I think I'm going to go with the former, so... shows that I think the majority of people would enjoy, and if you haven't watched them you are sorely missing out.
1. Boy Meets World. My childhood, in a nutshell. It's funny and heartwarming and sweet and everything I need to know I learned from Mr. Feeny. It's hard for me to imagine anybody in my age bracket who wasn't raised on this show but, well, maybe some people had real lives...? But I doubt it.
2. Psych. Again with the shows that win their appeal via comedy -- who doesn't want to sit down and laugh for an hour straight on Friday nights? But what I really love about it is how well it balances the zaniness with very very real characters and relationship dynamics. I think the parental strain between Shawn and Henry, or the epic BFFitude between Shawn and Gus, or any of the variety of other pairings on the show are all things that viewers can relate to; so instead of just random weekly hijinks, it's something ongoing that people can get invested in and look forward to watching these specific people every episode.
3. Lost. Hey, look, here's my massively biased opinion, but I feel like Lost is such a perfect something-for-everybody show. With zillions of characters, backstories, plotlines, and daddy issues, there has got to be at least something that can resonate, right? Plus there's that whole part where, oh yeah, it's absolutely brilliant, even when it makes me want to end myself with pain/woe/frustration/etc. It seems that what usually keeps people from watching this is the fact that "It's so confusing! I don't know what's going on!" but then I always hear that from people who, y'know, skip around and don't watch for months and then try to watch a random episode and are confused. I realize that not everybody has the time or the desire to commit to a show, but I don't think there's anything wrong with a narrative that expects you to pay attention to every part of the narrative in order for it to make sense. Even without all the extra online/book/tie-in RPG stuff, I think the show still works perfectly for people who just tune in once a week and watch the show itself, and nothing else (that's what my parents do, and they still love it). So it works for nerdy and non-nerdy types alike!
4. Crusoe. Man, I WISH this was a show that everybody watched! I feel so bad for everybody involved in it because it should have been super popular and instead they probably lost SO SO MUCH MONEY on this one -- which is just a lesson to networks that viewers aren't going to pay attention to gorgeous location shooting, great production values, lush costumes, etc. etc. WHAT GIVES, TV VIEWERS. YOU CONFUSE ME. It has pirates! Booby traps! Treasure! Comedy! Drama! Romance! Mysterious hidden pasts! Father/son angst! Adorable bromance! Fluffy puppies! Sexy dudes! Bitchin' ladies! I... man. Seriously. More people should have liked this show.
5. Star Trek. There's so much canon to choose from! Take your pick, I'm sure something will work.