I just peeked at your header. LOL! Wow, your friend got the gay vibe from just that picture (it's a lovely picture, btw)? The boys' chemistry seems to just radiate off of them. Actually, the reason I thought they were gay (for 20 minutes) was the distinct Scully/Mulder feel of their relationship ... almost UST, but more snarky and exasperated rather than full-out denial/suppression. Heh.
They get loaded with all sorts of baggage that doesn't allow the characters to be individuals.
Yes, OR worse, they're type cast. I was channel surfing last week and ran across a scene on some show with a middle-aged black woman with short hair, wearing stone earring and talking in a mystic voice. She was a psychic. Good old Missouri reincarnated (or maybe Missouri was reincarnated). It made me chuckle, then wish Missouri would show up and heckle Dean some more.
But perhaps the comparison game is just a natural human propensity? We're taught in school to "compare and contrast" as well as "summarize and generalize" from a very early age. Maybe we can just blame the school system for some of fandom's perceptions. ;)
inevitably twins raised apart are more similar than if they were raised together
Interesting. I learned something new. Fandom is good for amassing all sorts of disparate tidbits. :)
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I just peeked at your header. LOL! Wow, your friend got the gay vibe from just that picture (it's a lovely picture, btw)? The boys' chemistry seems to just radiate off of them. Actually, the reason I thought they were gay (for 20 minutes) was the distinct Scully/Mulder feel of their relationship ... almost UST, but more snarky and exasperated rather than full-out denial/suppression. Heh.
They get loaded with all sorts of baggage that doesn't allow the characters to be individuals.
Yes, OR worse, they're type cast. I was channel surfing last week and ran across a scene on some show with a middle-aged black woman with short hair, wearing stone earring and talking in a mystic voice. She was a psychic. Good old Missouri reincarnated (or maybe Missouri was reincarnated). It made me chuckle, then wish Missouri would show up and heckle Dean some more.
But perhaps the comparison game is just a natural human propensity? We're taught in school to "compare and contrast" as well as "summarize and generalize" from a very early age. Maybe we can just blame the school system for some of fandom's perceptions. ;)
inevitably twins raised apart are more similar than if they were raised together
Interesting. I learned something new. Fandom is good for amassing all sorts of disparate tidbits. :)