o, season 3! -- so near, and yet so far

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There are new promo pictures for season 3 at New Atlantis. The first one is eminently forgettable, but the second one has caused a great gladness in my heart and loins. Er. Well, it has, dammit!

Things I have to say about this picture:

1) Ronon's crazy Road Warrior Gloves of Doom: baffling or completely fucking hot? Let's go with both.

2) Elizabeth continues to look monumentally cooler in promotional pictures than she ever actually is on the show. Where are they keeping this character, and who's using her office? We need a Free Elizabeth Weir! campaign.

3) Rodney's kinda turning me on, here. I think because he looks like a freaking grown-up, which is the Rodney I prefer to the Spastic Dweeb Man-Child Rodney who occasionally shows up to poke me with sticks -- psychically, I mean. Well, that's how it feels! This guy can stay.

4) Sheppard should always, always, always wear jeans. I know, uniform, military, whatever. Like his hair *is* regulation? There should be special Congressional dispensation. Oh, come on, they're not fucking doing anything useful; they've got the time.

5) Teyla looks like she has Layers. I approve. I also think it's cool when they don't make the hot chick in the belly shirt stand right up front so we can't possibly miss her -- although I fear that has less to do with their profound feminist commitment to avoiding the objectification of Teyla's character, and more to do with the fact that, as far as I can tell, only chicks watch Atlantis. Nonetheless, I approve. Unless they're going to let her go back to wearing that strippy skirt from 1st season. In which case I want her back up front, for all the pictures. My feminism does not trump that.

Comments

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

1. While I am always in favour of gauntlets, anything past the elbow is a bit much unless we're talking ladies' evening gloves.

...Of course now I'm picturing Ronon in white satin elbow gloves.

Back on topic: why is he wearing chaps?

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Why NOT?

I'm going for "baffling" on the gauntlets, and I also think his beard is less attractive than it was. OTOH, I've been looking at the spoilery episode pics, and he's looking pretty damn fine in some of those.

I notice there's a bit more muscle definition in the pic on the left than what I'm used to from S2. That makes me sad, actually. There's a point where an appearance of strength changes into an appearance of spending too much damn time in the gym and dieting to cut body fat. Mind you, it's probably airbrushed in that particular picture ;) And it'll grow on me. I used to think Ronon walked funny, in a muscle-bound way... now I'm convinced it's a "just fucked" way.

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Mind you, it's probably airbrushed in that particular picture

Yeah, they always look a lot sleeker and shinier in the promo pics than in real life. If not airbrushing, I'm sure they're lit and made up to within an inch of their lives. I know it's all fake as hell, but it works on me anyway, for I am a sheep. Also, it kind of gives me warm, nostalgic memories of my days in popslash, where everything looks like that.

now I'm convinced it's a "just fucked" way

I have the exact same theory about his raspy voice! What a coincidence...

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Now I'm imagining the sort of makeup you'd use for tricep definition, and wondering whether it's legal in bodybuilding competitions, and if so how they define the rule so that it bans tricep-blusher (or whatever) and allows the fake tan and oil they all seem to wear.

Obviously I am over-thinking this.

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Well, I do know that drag queens use bronzer shading to enhance the appearance of cleavage (one of the many things my mother wonders how I know, I'm sure). So I bet it could be done! I'm sure there's a highly intricate science governing the cosmetics of bodybuilding competitions; for any competition, there are people who are more than willing to put just that much work into taking it entirely too seriously.

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Of course now I'm picturing Ronon in white satin elbow gloves

Another one for the Baffling or Kinda Hot? debate. Ronon is the kind of guy who, no matter how much women's apparel you put him in, will always look like a dude in women's clothes. I mean, a *pretty* dude in women's clothes! I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Actually, I think the combination of that inherent masculinity and the satin gloves (pearl necklace/lipstick/black silk panties/fake eyelashes/whatever) that makes it kind of kicky.

Back on topic: why is he wearing chaps?

Uh. Because that's what you do when you are GAY PORN? I'm just brainstorming.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Have you seen that photo shoot of Brad Pitt in a sparkly dress? That's what I think of when I think of Ronon in women's clothes.

(And wouldn't you know it, now I can't find a link to any of those pics to show you.)

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it, but yes! Brad would be the same sort of guy, I think. In my head, at least, they share a vibe...a cross-dressing vibe.... Christ, the weirdest shit comes up in livejournal.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

No, I totally agree. Something about not actually trying to fake it, because they know they can't. Like women who wear men's suits, not in a butch dyke passing kind of way, but in that weirdly feminine way. I find that less attractive than Brad Pitt in a frock, though.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Here's one: it was a Rolling Stone photoshoot (http://www.ankegroener.de/anke1/Bilder/brad_pitt_dress.jpg). Oh, and here's another one (http://max.msn.de/img/rubriken/abo/starwatch.jpg). I wish I could find bigger pictures. They were really nice. *sighs*

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Not bigger, but there's a lot of them (http://skirts.provocateuse.com/show/brad_pitt).

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think the combination of that inherent masculinity and the satin gloves (pearl necklace/lipstick/black silk panties/fake eyelashes/whatever) that makes it kind of kicky.

*mentally adds a pearl necklace and black silk panties to the image of Ronon in elbow gloves*

I...um...oh dear. I think the panties might be a bit much? But I've decided I really want to see the elbow gloves and lipstick.