That gorgeous man is Peter Wingfield, playing the character of Methos in Highlander. That particular pair of pictures is from the episode The Modern Prometheus, and the scene is a flashback to 1816.
Isn't he pretty! The character is also wonderfully complex and interesting as well as utterly gorgeous. Not that I'm biased or anything.
We discovered him in Highlander, where he played an immortal who had survived for millennia mainly by being sneaky, devious, and low-profile. Five thousand years old but still basically Just A Guy, and when the bad guys come knocking he's less likely to face them like a heroic champion than to take the next plane to Tibet.
Great performance + great character + floppy hair + loose-hanging sweater = Kate literally sliding off the sofa in a gibbering puddle...
The LJ-based roleplaying game which Kate, off_coloratura, and I all muck around in (though I've faded out a bit lately). Daniel Joyce is the Doctor's dad as glimpsed in "Unnatural History", formerly played by Sean Connery -- when he had to regenerate, Kate picked the new body. :-) (pfred below is one of the Game characters.)
Hope you enjoy Genius Loci as much as I did! Reading Ben's prose again is like sliding into a nice warm bath...
I get it -- first the Doctor's dad is Ramirez, and then Methos :-) (I actually like hearing about role-playing games, but I've never been interested in playing (or not as a player -- as an assistant DM, helping come up with things for the charas to encounter, yes :-)).
Oh, and you will be amused to know that I have now seen Mr Glenister -- in Soldier Soldier, playing Colour Sargeant Ian Anderson alongside Mr Wingfield as Lt Nick Pascoe (and Oh My Ghod is he young!) and an equally young Robson Green. Good show.
Oh, no question. And just about the most amazing scene is near the end of the last episode of the season, when Nick's girlfriend has left him, and he's at the dance -- he gets dared to dance with one of the other guys ... and he *does*. Amazing athleticism, and the the underlying pain/anger that he conveys with just his movement. Wow.
**Goes off to find the youTube thing of that scene**
Well, I know it's there somewhere. I'll have to send you the link later.
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Isn't he pretty! The character is also wonderfully complex and interesting as well as utterly gorgeous. Not that I'm biased or anything.
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We discovered him in Highlander, where he played an immortal who had survived for millennia mainly by being sneaky, devious, and low-profile. Five thousand years old but still basically Just A Guy, and when the bad guys come knocking he's less likely to face them like a heroic champion than to take the next plane to Tibet.
Great performance + great character + floppy hair + loose-hanging sweater = Kate literally sliding off the sofa in a gibbering puddle...
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The pressie arrived, got it yesterday. THANK YOU!!!
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Hope you enjoy Genius Loci as much as I did! Reading Ben's prose again is like sliding into a nice warm bath...
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(I actually like hearing about role-playing games, but I've never been interested in playing (or not as a player -- as an assistant DM, helping come up with things for the charas to encounter, yes :-)).
I am Quite Sure I will enjoy the book!
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!!!!!
grandad is hawt...
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All with the happysighs!
Oh, and you will be amused to know that I have now seen Mr Glenister -- in Soldier Soldier, playing Colour Sargeant Ian Anderson alongside Mr Wingfield as Lt Nick Pascoe (and Oh My Ghod is he young!) and an equally young Robson Green. Good show.
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**Goes off to find the youTube thing of that scene**
Well, I know it's there somewhere. I'll have to send you the link later.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tMHX2AiXOw
(I hope that works -- I found it by way of an embedded thingy on LJ, but I think its f-locked.
Enjoy!
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