I find Charisma Carpenter to be that insanely too-pretty-to-be-human type of pretty
Really?
I think she's certainly pretty, but she's never made me just stare at my TV and wish I looked like her, the way Rose McGowan has. I'd put her about on a par with SMG -- nice-looking, but you wouldn't really notice her as anything special if she wasn't on TV.
(Which is not to say you're wrong, just that tastes differ.)
Well, I find Charisma Carpenter to be that insanely too-pretty-to-be-human type of pretty. It's the type of pretty that desexualizes the person, much like TW.
I've realized that I watch Smallville pretty much just for Kristin Kreuk's 1.5 facial expressions and I don't care what they do with the rest of the show. It's like "Oh there's Clark. There's Lex. There's Ma and Pa Kettle. Lana hasn't been on screen for 4.278458 minutes, I'm getting fidgety."
Okay, how perfectly Buffista is it that we set up a Smallville thread so we can talk about pretty SV people in the Buffy thread?
I tried to move it back. It wouldn't go.
Pretty is a fairly subjective thing. My personal choice for most gorgeous human being ever to walk the planet is my first lover... being at work, I can't call up his (adult-oriented) website, but if you take this guy and add a slightly squarer jaw and blond hair, you'll get the general idea.
(Also, for those who watched MTV's Real World: Los Angeles, Aaron represents a much stronger resemblance than Christian Bale. Like, separated at birth strong.)
I find Charisma Carpenter to be that insanely too-pretty-to-be-human type of pretty
Right there with you. So funny because
I Will Remember You
is such a tear jerker BuffyNAngle4evahh!! ep - but I rewatch it because - that little tied around the back hanky that CC is wearing?? Double guhhh. . Not human. Too pretty.
I said that thing about Tom Welling the other night, but neglected to add the "male or female" bit, when I said it to dh. Dh coughed, in that sort of "what about me" way. I said, "Honey, I mean pretty--boy or girl. Who is prettier than that man? I like your looks better, but he's just the prettiest thing I can remember seeing, male or female."
He didn't see it. Not saying he didn't think TW is prettier than he is, he just doesn't think he's prettier than girls. I suppose I should be glad of that, but I think his eyes done broke.
Keira Knightly is *gorgeous,* though in Bend it like Beckham I just kept thinking about how very skinny she was.
But PotC? A triumvirate of extreme prettiness.
Welling's jawling bugs me. It's weird, and kind of lumpy-square.