Published on 12, July, 2020
Has anyone had embarrassing crushes on cartoon/movie characters as a child/young teenager?
As a child, I had a massive thing for Jafar from Disney's Aladdin, lol. The Jafar fantasy carried on for quite a while when I was a teenager. My friends take the piss out of me for it, and I don't blame them! I also had a thing for Hades from Hercules. No accounting for taste!
As an older teenager, I developed a vampire obsession, and had a thing for Lestat from 'Queen of the Damned' and Gary Oldman as Dracula... oh dear haha
What are yours?
Anyway I should stop procrastinating on here and get on with my college work...
Emma Peel - the thinking man's totty! Smart, capable, independent, Ooh yes.
Even I can see why men like Emma Peel! She had Steed under control alright didn't she
I'm not sure I agree with 'under control' - I think it was mutual respect for each other's capabilities and knowing they could count on each other when things got tough.
Plastic said:He was playing the perfect British gentleman
Which is ?
haha! They are just being argumentative.
Everyone says I have a reputation but they don't explain why...
Gracious yes! Who would it be... We don't want your reputation sullied by hanging around with a disreputable wench like me
Let us now promenade in the orchard, Mr Plastic!
Only if we have a reliable chaperone.
It sounds restrictive but I'd like that. Imagine knowing what to do on every occasion and what to talk about. I think people rebelled against it but we would like it wouldn't we.
Let us now promenade in the orchard, Mr Plastic! lol.
Yes! There were proper etiquette books and proper training - it was all very formal and prescribed - heaven!
Yes, they have a book that we don't get!! Grr.
Probably why I like Victorian history, because there were lots of rules about how to manage social events!
And that's the bummer! NTs seem to be given a copy of this book at birth but I seem to have been left off the mailing list.
I loved the whole kitch-ness of the Avengers- the sets, the plots, the acting - such a perfect niche product - very much of its day.- similar to The Prisoner
There has to be a middle way doesn't there, where people can have fun but not hurt each other. I often think some kind of rule book or something would help. A social rule book would certainly help me know what to do.
You know. 'On the first date we do X, the second date we do Y.' etc.
If you want to be friends with someone, you go to visit and leave your calling card.
But this wouldn't suit lots of people would it, those who like to be free and easy. Maybe a set of rules for people like me who need them, and others can be free and easy.
I dunno.
In the meantime, I'll be Emma Peel and you can be Steed! I loved his apartment, it was wonderful! We shall have tea there while practising our martial arts.
It was just the sexual tension in the Avengers, and most shows where there is a man and a woman, especially in the past.
They are from a time when the relationships between men and women were allowed to be fun - and edgy. Women understood men and men understood women.
It's all very dull and correct now. No fun. No tension allowed.
The New Avengers was tragically bad with no wit or humour..
It was just the sexual tension in the Avengers, and most shows where there is a man and a woman, especially in the past. Although even modern shows I expect. That's why they have a man and a woman, if they wanted a pure spy story they have two men or two women. Although there could still be sexual tension between them I suppose! Not to be discriminatory
And remember when Emma's husband did turn up...he was the doppelganger of Steed!
Why would he seduce her? He was playing the perfect British gentleman and her character was married and her husband was missing - you can see the real emotion in the last episode before Tara King when the husband came back and she and Steed parted forever,
She didn't let him seduce her though, which was his aim. Or maybe I'm thinking of the actor, Patrick MacNee, apparently he was a bit of a letch (according to Honor Blackman) and Emma resisted him. But who knows what the truth was, it's all people's different opinions...