Hi Anna! It is so lovely to see you posting again!
I can’t decide if it's the showcasing of intellect that does it or just someone who really knows what they're doing with their mouth.
In Benedict Cumberbatch's case, for me it's his voice. That is a good voice to have.:) The clever things he says with it are all just a bonus.
Oh, I love all of your Buffy/Spike thoughts so much that they just turn me to mush. Particularly this:
And there you go: hero, heroine, both equally capable of taking care of themselves, but needing and depending on each other because that shared strength gives them a burden of care for everyone else. I don't need you to protect me, but I need you to help me protect them: it's a grown-up story about partnership, about responsibility, and it's dressed up in combat, chemistry and leather coats.
This is why I love the story of Buffy and Spike so much, that they're equals in so many ways, and that instead of it being a story about one of them protecting the other, it's a story about how they help each other grow into better people. The chemistry is vital, and the combat and leather are the icing on the cake.
In Benedict Cumberbatch's case, for me it's his voice. That is a good voice to have.:) The clever things he says with it are all just a bonus.
And there's something about the incongruity of his choir-boy face and that voice that makes it all the better. A voice is much harder than an image to summon to mind when you're not actually experiencing it, so while I remember the face the voice gets me every time.
Hee. I think essentially what I am saying is, yes! :)
This is why I love the story of Buffy and Spike so much, that they're equals in so many ways, and that instead of it being a story about one of them protecting the other, it's a story about how they help each other grow into better people. The chemistry is vital, and the combat and leather are the icing on the cake.
Yes, this! And it seems such a simple recipe, but it's so hard to get right. Too often there's so much attention given to the icing that no-one notices that the cake is lopsided, or cracked, or sunk in the middle, until the icing - as it inevitably does - goes the way of the cake.
See, this is what I've missed! Fangirling and cake metaphors! You are very good to me. :)
I can’t decide if it's the showcasing of intellect that does it or just someone who really knows what they're doing with their mouth.
In Benedict Cumberbatch's case, for me it's his voice. That is a good voice to have.:) The clever things he says with it are all just a bonus.
Oh, I love all of your Buffy/Spike thoughts so much that they just turn me to mush. Particularly this:
And there you go: hero, heroine, both equally capable of taking care of themselves, but needing and depending on each other because that shared strength gives them a burden of care for everyone else. I don't need you to protect me, but I need you to help me protect them: it's a grown-up story about partnership, about responsibility, and it's dressed up in combat, chemistry and leather coats.
This is why I love the story of Buffy and Spike so much, that they're equals in so many ways, and that instead of it being a story about one of them protecting the other, it's a story about how they help each other grow into better people. The chemistry is vital, and the combat and leather are the icing on the cake.
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And there's something about the incongruity of his choir-boy face and that voice that makes it all the better. A voice is much harder than an image to summon to mind when you're not actually experiencing it, so while I remember the face the voice gets me every time.
Hee. I think essentially what I am saying is, yes! :)
This is why I love the story of Buffy and Spike so much, that they're equals in so many ways, and that instead of it being a story about one of them protecting the other, it's a story about how they help each other grow into better people. The chemistry is vital, and the combat and leather are the icing on the cake.
Yes, this! And it seems such a simple recipe, but it's so hard to get right. Too often there's so much attention given to the icing that no-one notices that the cake is lopsided, or cracked, or sunk in the middle, until the icing - as it inevitably does - goes the way of the cake.
See, this is what I've missed! Fangirling and cake metaphors! You are very good to me. :)
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