Sense and Sensibility

[lilly]

I can't believe we don't have a thread about this, though I'm fairly attuned to my own reasons for not having started one previously, as I no doubt will feel compelled to explain in due course (for reasons that are as per usual fairly mortifying).

For now, however, I just wanted to throw something in here I found on the PBS website, because basically, I am way too easily amused...from their, "Men of Austen" feature:



Though I tend to run like hell away from any and all manner of personal ads, for some strange reason I find this oddly compelling, if not downright persuasive.

[kitty11]

ROFL!! ;D

And here I was thinking the PBS website only had dry political stuff on it.

I think if I ever saw an ad like that in the personals I'd be inclined to check it out too...purely out of academic curiosity of course

kitty

[lilly]

Last night I had a dream about Colonel Brandon being able to shoot lasers out of his eyes.

While this proves I really shouldn't fall asleep watching bad science fiction (if that's not an innately oxymoronic phrase--it happened to be MST3K: The Human Duplicators in this instance), it did occur to me upon awakening that this capacity certainly would have gotten things sorted with Willoughby that much more quickly...along with anyone else in the general neighbourhood who happened to get outta line.

And of course, this also evidences how my capacity for easy metaphors is apparently limitless. *rolls eyes at self*

[lilly]

Because kitty once again exceeds all known levels of win-ness, we can haz mucho pix naotiems.





Oh, what I wouldn't give to have such a glorious creature clasped between my thighs...and ya know, the horse is nice too.







"I'd like to be your breast--erm, best friend..."



"And you know, here in the library there are plenty of boobs--uhm, I mean books..."



But you know, half the fun of kitty sending me screencaps is her file names--case in point being how she entitled this last one, "Mr. Pensive."



Sheesh, the guy is just unreasonably numptious.

[lilly]

Moar pix naotiems...starting off with one of the, "Smug Bastard Knows He's Smexay As All Get-Out" variety.



















(Okay, yeah, sometimes I just can't help myself when encountering such great icon material...



I apologise to everyone, everywhere, for everything.)



Re: this next, I feel compelled to note that y'all should take no notice of me--I'll just be the one over in the corner, swooning and drooling unbecomingly.



The fairly-mortifying admission I mentioned in the initial post in this thread directly relates to this last picture, but for now I'm going to see how long I can actually STFU about it; nevertheless, it should be said that while I kept kitty's original file name of, "Checkin' Out the Scenery," a far more apropos title for me personally would be, "The Moment My Doom Was Nigh!" D=

[victoriao]

[kitty11]

LOL, just got to looking at my caps and found one exactly like that one Celia! ;D

I swap your one for this one



kitty

[victoriao]

Aw, that smile

I have a feeling the pic I posted may have originated here, at this lovely S&S picspam made by Heather who did the OMF one:

ingenu0us.livejournal.com/137814.html

At the end of part 2 there's also a link to where Angela (aka Spikesbint) has screencapped all three episodes.

[kitty11]

Sept 4, 2009 19:39:12 GMT @victoriao said:

I have a feeling the pic I posted may have originated here, at this lovely S&S picspam made by Heather who did the OMF one:

Thanks for that link Celia

Got to LOLing at Heather's S&S series of picspams while I was at it, expecially her reference to this particular shot, which she had down as "Willoughby, you're so dead" (I seemed to be more prosaic in calling it "I don't like you"):

At the end of part 2 there's also a link to where Angela (aka Spikesbint) has screencapped all three episodes.

Wish I'd known of this earlier, but *shrugs*, at least it's helped hone my capping skills, particularly with regards to catching his various expressions, this being but one example:



I'd call that a bear with a very sore head

kitty

[lilly]

Sept 5, 2009 11:06:31 GMT kitty11 said:

I'd call that a bear with a very sore head

LMFAO!!

[victoriao]

... after Sense and Sensibility vaulted me into permanent hormonal overload back in January

Lilly, I'm glad you mentioned that (in another thread but I moved it across here) as it answers a question I'd been meaning to ask you - ie what it was that caused your Road-to-Damascus moment and awakened you to the fact that Mr Morrissey is anything but another unsexy white man

I attach a link to a beautifully-edited bit of YouTube feelgoodery, which as it happens was the thing that helped reintroduce me to Mr M:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOFps_Naytg

I hadn't seen S&S but I was watching this montage and found myself thinking 'Ooh, David Morrissey! I've always liked him... and isn't he kind of, well, masterful all of a sudden?' That led me to look up a few more YouTube links, which led me to Blackpool... and the rest is history. But indirectly, it's all down to lovely Colonel B

[lilly]

Sept 6, 2009 18:14:48 GMT @victoriao said:

Lilly, I'm glad you mentioned that (in another thread but I moved it across here) as it answers a question I'd been meaning to ask you - ie what it was that caused your Road-to-Damascus moment and awakened you to the fact that Mr Morrissey is anything but another unsexy white man

GODDAMMIT!! I was really hoping no-one was going to ask me that, so I could continue prevaricating indefinitely! Though again...hell, at this point, what's one more thing, right? *rolls eyes at self*

Okay, so this past January, I was channel-flipping around and in all honesty, the only reason I stopped to watch Sense and Sensibility on PBS was because I saw Mark Gatiss was in it; still, as it went on, I kept thinking, "Hey, who is that other fella? Cos dammit, I know that guy! I know I know that guy! Or do I just think that because all British people look alike?"

Then as I was falling asleep--around the point when Colonel Brandon and Sir John Middleton are out shooting and generally being manly--I drowsily found myself thinking, "Must look that up at IMDb tomorrow...because...I THINK I LOVE HIM." That vaulted me into consciousness, out of bed, over to my kompyuter, and into complete *facepalm* mode...in which I have basically remained.

See, I'd watched 'The Next Doctor' a few weeks prior to that, but I can be a Bear of Very Little Brain at times, especially when I'm only half-awake. Still, I hath ever but slenderly known myself, if this incident was any indication.

Then about a month or two later, I ran across an old LJ entry from about two years ago, when I was expressing my fond appreciation for the "Complete Jane Austen" season they did on Masterpiece Theatre...with the notable exception of Sense and Sensibility, which I then had refused to watch on the grounds that--and I quote--"Anyone other than Alan Rickman playing Colonel Brandon? I SO DON'T THINK SO!!"

There's nothing quite like making yourself laugh so hard that you start your own period.

... and the rest is history. But indirectly, it's all down to lovely Colonel B

Erm, yeah. Definitely proved to me how just a slight shift in perspective can make a world o' difference...or result in untold amounts of estrogen-infused carnage, in my case.

[lilly]

I'm passing along this link only because I was amused at how the one response of, "DAVID MORRISSEY IS IN THIS HNNNG MUST WATCH" so very nicely encapsulates my own automatic reaction to every one of his projects.

Oh, and of course, there are pictures too. Once I get done with the new banner and finish posting The Last of the Hunky Dougness, I may move on to all the fab Colonel Brandon screencaps das Kitzenjammer Kid was kind enough to send me, unless anyone has any pressing requests otherwise...?

[Illyria]

*stares at the pictures in this thread*

Why haven't I watched this yet? WHY?! I mean, yeah, I loved Alan Rickman in the role, but wooow.... ;D

[lilly]

I don't know why you haven't watched this yet either. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200,* hie yourself to a DVD player post-haste, missy! (It's in your fangirly contract--check the small print.)

I thought I'd pass this link along only because the attitude of, "...but he's not my Col. Brandon, and he's not my Alan Rickman" mirrors exactly what mine was...up until about a year and a half ago.

Ideally I should really rewatch the 1995 version for comparison purposes (I got the tape from the library a while back but never got round to throwing it in the VCR), except for knowing full well that my mind is already made up when it comes to which Brandon I like better--still, I totally agree with what they said about Dan Stevens, though I think Greg Wise was an infinitely better (~less weaselly) Willoughby than Dominic Cooper.

What say you all, hmmm?

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*Oh cripes, is that only in the American version of Monopoly? My apologies for the inadvertent cultural ethnocentrism, if so.