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[doyle]

I'm watching old episodes of Blackadder the Third and trying in vain to reconcile Prince George with Gregory House. It's brain-wrecking. (I don't know how much Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster and A Bit of Fry and Laurie have been shown outside the UK, but I grew up on wall to wall repeats of them. Suddenly finding Hugh Laurie hot is very disconcerting.)

If I've friended you in the last couple of days, it's probably because I like reading your posts on House - no need to friend back.

This is the first time ever that less than half of my icons have been Buffyverse. It's very sad that this makes me guilty.

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[fishsanwitt]

I'm about half and half on the Buffy icons - and I felt *extraordinarily* guilty when I started adding other fandoms.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Heee. I like Lost but I'm not really involved in the fandom, and while I love Desperate Housewives I don't have any urge to write fic or get metaish over it - and then House comes along and makes me want to write fic and hunt down spoilers and hoard icons and talk endlessly about it with other people, and while it's so lovely to have a fandom again, it's like the Buffyverse is there going "is it me? I can change!"

[eloise-bright.livejournal.com]

I am having the same brain-melting experience with the Hugh Laurie thing. I haven't seen House -(are you d/loading it?) but the pics I've seen make me want Laurie in a bad and wrong way.

It is difficult to reconcile Lieutenant George (aka the gorgeous Georgina) with the scruffy, sexy (and I'm assuming) gravelly-voiced man I'm seeing in various icons.

*waits for House to come to Sky...*

[minim_calibre]

As one who has (for no good earthly reason) found Hugh Laurie to be Quite Hot Indeed for over *cough*fifteenyears*cough*, it's JUST as disconcerting to find other people suddenly in the Hugh-is-Hot corner.

(Almost as disconcerting as realizing they're all finding him hot in something that, Hugh or No Hugh, I just can't watch due to my own issues with medical shows.)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I'm downloading - have everything but episodes 7-10, and we should have those in the next few days.

Addiction is a beautiful thing.

(If you can watch .avi files I can burn them to a CD for you, mail me at doyle@exitseraphim.net with your address. That reminds me, need to send rheanna27 a CD...)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I'm searching my pre-teen and adolescent memories for any moment when I looked at Hugh Laurie and thought "swoon!" or "you know, if he scruffed up a bit..." But no, it just totally blindsided me.

I'm wonder if he's just as surprised as anyone else...

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Or as a friend of mine put it upon comming across people online who fangurl Hugh Laurie:

"But...but...it's Prince-Thick-As-A-Whale-Omlette-George!"

[minim_calibre]

Hee!

But he had such goofy, boyish charm! Especially as Lt. the Honorable George Colhurst St. Barleigh.

[fishsanwitt]

Mine are *old* fandoms - Beauty and the Beast mainly. It's funny, I don't feel the need to resurrect Classic Kirk/Spock or even Mulder/Scully, but B&B and Buffy - they're hanging in there. I think it's b/c I never got the ending I *needed* - I never got the catharsis that good drama *should* give you, so it's a scab - partially healed - always being picked at.

[meko00.livejournal.com]

So, I haven't seen everything he's done (but still quite a bit), and while I don't fangirl him, I've always thought he was good-looking. I'm just not fannish enough, huh? :-(

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I might have to rip at least the trial scene from Blackadder Goes Forth just in case anyone hasn't seen in, because George is brilliance itself in that.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Awww. Well, you thought he was good-looking before it was cool, so you win the internets *g*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Hee. I've had that reaction too...

[meko00.livejournal.com]

Yay.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*irrationally frightened of icon*

Hugh

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

Hugh will forever by Wooster from Jeeves and Wooster and it's really odd for me to reconsile that with hot, American accented, Hugh. And if Stephen ever made a guest appearance I might have a brain malfunction:)

Re: Hugh

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Stephen needs to play either House's arch-nemesis or Cameron's father. I haven't decided which I would prefer...

[meko00.livejournal.com]

Aww. He can't hurt you. He just wish he could. And well, Gunn can take him. ;-)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Is that a watermelon on his head? The giant cat will devour us all!

[minim_calibre]

Oh, you should!

Drat. THAT'S what I should have watched last night. Blackadder.

(We were very tired, and didn't have time for a movie, so we just popped some Eddie Izzard into the DVD player.)

(Other confessions of Odd Hotness: Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder II, and Chris Barrie as Ace Rimmer. Oh, and see icon.)

(My taste in men is far more suspect than my taste in women, I fear.)

[meko00.livejournal.com]

No, I think it's a lime, actually. Wrong colours for a water melon, in any case.

Here, kitty kitty

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes and yes on Blackadder and Rimmer. (Who's the woobie? I'm very bad at identifying people in static images)

There are a frightening number of Rimmer Mary Sues on ff.net.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Let's see, fandoms I've had besides Buffy: Star Trek TOS, Star Trek Voyager, Due South, Queer as Folk UK (plus those I read fic for but never wrote in, like Hercules and Starsky and Hutch). QAF I'll still occasionally read and write fic for, some of them I still watch, others have just drifted away.

I think you're right about the ending being a major factor.

[zoicite.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I haven't seen it and would love to, so I second that!

Though I must admit that I'm mostly responding as an excuse to use my Jeff icon because it spends most of its time sad and gathering icon dust.

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

Oh, actually, don't worry about that - elz uploaded the soundtrack to yousendit, and I got it from there. But I did appreciate the offer.

I've not seen any House, but all the LJ talk is getting me really interested in it. When did Hugh Laurie achieve hotness? I mean, seriously. Blackadder, A Bit Of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster... not hot. Now: very very hot.

I want one of the UK channels to buy House, stat.