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Post by lovemondays on Jul 25, 2014 23:48:53 GMT
...and Julia is the one who relies on "scent, and how the person makes you feel"...  I wonder if Chanel would ever consider developing such a sexy scent???!!! |
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 0:01:47 GMT
...and Julia is the one who relies on "scent, and how the person makes you feel"... I wonder if Chanel would ever consider developing such a sexy scent???!!! Starting to wonder if your new Image Capture powers can zoom in on William's dresser and spot any particular cologne, lol. Dang, wouldn't that be a funny scene - sort of like George's stock certificates - if we could zoom in and find out that William had all these "preening" secrets going on hahahaha.  |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 0:32:34 GMT
I would be funny, but we already know he has preening secrets...we NEVER see him at the barber getting his hair cut (which has to be frequently) or shaving his beard, although he is frugal enough never to pay for a shave (reference his cutting rubber tubing into homemade elastics in "The Murdoch Trap").
It would be awfully sexy to see that level of exposure and intimacy once William and Julia are married. It's funny how such mundane activities can get the juices flowing. Oh no...fanfic coming on...as Julia sleepily rolls over while the first rays of sunshine peek through the curtains, she spies William shaving the morning shadow from his chin....
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 0:34:04 GMT
I've only just started capping S2 locations but scenes in Williams 'rooms' are few and far between. I'll keep my eyes open though!
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 1:06:13 GMT
I would be funny, but we already know he has preening secrets...we NEVER see him at the barber getting his hair cut (which has to be frequently) or shaving his beard, although he is frugal enough never to pay for a shave (reference his cutting rubber tubing into homemade elastics in "The Murdoch Trap"). It would be awfully sexy to see that level of exposure and intimacy once William and Julia are married. It's funny how such mundane activities can get the juices flowing. Oh no...fanfic coming on...as Julia sleepily rolls over while the first rays of sunshine peek through the curtains, she spies William shaving the morning shadow from his chin.... I agree William would be frugal. Can you imagine the HOURS it would take him to do that level of preening, though? He might have a few scientific shortcuts, but still, if he's doing it all himself, his morning routine has to be insane! Yannick has referenced how quickly his beard grows, so if William gets scruffy just as fast, he has that much more extra work to do. 
I see William getting up first and Julia trying to distract him from this ridiculous routine...
I see bottles of who-knows-what getting knocked over...
I suspect the whole bedroom will smell like William's aftershave for some time to come... |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 1:14:07 GMT
Sigh. I can SO get into that scenario...and I am severely sensitive to scents. Most fragrances make me want to put somebody's head through a wall (seriously) but I would really love to get a snootfull of him. IMO, he's a soap and water kind of guy, not one to spend hard earned pennies on fragrances. That is also a class thing. Only the upper classes could afford perfumes and colognes. A mid/lower class person's only hope in that department was to have a very clever soap maker.
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 1:23:53 GMT
Sigh. I can SO get into that scenario...and I am severely sensitive to scents. Most fragrances make me want to put somebody's head through a wall (seriously) but I would really love to get a snootfull of him. IMO, he's a soap and water kind of guy, not one to spend hard earned pennies on fragrances. That is also a class thing. Only the upper classes could afford perfumes and colognes. A mid/lower class person's only hope in that department was to have a very clever soap maker. While I agree he's a soap and water type of guy, I think his class aspirations (and maybe even his wish to attract Julia) might have encouraged him to experiment with something subtle. I don't think he went around "smelling like cologne" in the Italian Mafioso sense. But there could have been a reason he was leading around those Dracula-reading school girls like the Pied Piper~ From an article about male colognes: Hmm, not thinking William is a "roses" type of guy. Maybe something special from Chinatown? btw, when I was in high school and couldn't stand the smell of tea rose and other commercial perfumes, I used to sprinkle some clove from the spice cabinet on my sweaters. William could have "mixed his own" like that, and put the potpourri in his drawers. |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 1:46:23 GMT
Sigh. I can SO get into that scenario...and I am severely sensitive to scents. Most fragrances make me want to put somebody's head through a wall (seriously) but I would really love to get a snootfull of him. IMO, he's a soap and water kind of guy, not one to spend hard earned pennies on fragrances. That is also a class thing. Only the upper classes could afford perfumes and colognes. A mid/lower class person's only hope in that department was to have a very clever soap maker. While I agree he's a soap and water type of guy, I think his class aspirations (and maybe even his wish to attract Julia) might have encouraged him to experiment with something subtle. I don't think he went around "smelling like cologne" in the Italian Mafioso sense. But there could have been a reason he was leading around those Dracula-reading school girls like the Pied Piper~ From an article about male colognes: Hmm, not thinking William is a "roses" type of guy. Maybe something special from Chinatown? btw, when I was in high school and couldn't stand the smell of tea rose and other commercial perfumes, I used to sprinkle some clove from the spice cabinet on my sweaters. William could have "mixed his own" like that, and put the potpourri in his drawers. I don't know about you but all I need to get all hot and bothered are those natural double eyelashes of his, and perhaps a clean, soapy aura. No man-made scents required. I think William spends too much time in his head to even be aware, on a cognitive level, that scents play a role on the attraction front until Julia declared it as part of her sexual POV. |
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 2:07:52 GMT
I don't know about you but all I need to get all hot and bothered are those natural double eyelashes of his, and perhaps a clean, soapy aura. No man-made scents required. I think William spends too much time in his head to even be aware, on a cognitive level, that scents play a role on the attraction front until Julia declared it as part of her sexual POV. But once Julia did declare it, you have to wonder if some experiments came to pass. William may seem like he has a one-track mind, but often you just can't see the other tracks that are running until suddenly the resulting train of thought pops right out of the tunnel. That happens on a lot of cases. I think it often happens in his personal life as well. For instance in The Tesla Effect, William seemed to be cogitating over what Julia's inability to have children meant for their relationship while he worked on a very difficult case, and he had his solution worked out the minute the case was done. So if Julia brought up scent, William surely filed that away. He probably blinked those eyelashes twice to register SAVE! |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 2:11:16 GMT
You are quite right. William is a man whose waters run deep on many levels at the same time. It's that compartmentalization thing he has going.
I've got a fanfic in my head that is a letter he writes to Julia the night of "The Tesla Effect".
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 2:17:48 GMT
You are quite right. William is a man whose waters run deep on many levels at the same time. It's that compartmentalization thing he has going. I've got a fanfic in my head that is a letter he writes to Julia the night of "The Tesla Effect". I'm curious about the letters he sent to Julia in Buffalo...which seemingly never stated his romantic intentions. I bet they just discussed cases, like their dance lessons.  |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 2:22:44 GMT
My impression is that they didn't exchange any letters until William asked for Julia's help in "All Tattered and Torn". I keep going back to his hesitation over how to sign off. If they had been corresponding regularly, he'd have long since gotten over the urge to sign it "love, William", IMHO.
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 2:30:22 GMT
My impression is that they didn't exchange any letters until William asked for Julia's help in "All Tattered and Torn". I keep going back to his hesitation over how to sign off. If they had been corresponding regularly, he'd have long since gotten over the urge to sign it "love, William", IMHO. Wow, months went by before that. William must have really been having trouble writing the first sentence. I suppose Julia thought he cut ties with her. I still think he was waiting psychologically for some letter from her. |
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Post by lovemondays on Jul 26, 2014 2:46:48 GMT
My impression is that they didn't exchange any letters until William asked for Julia's help in "All Tattered and Torn". I keep going back to his hesitation over how to sign off. If they had been corresponding regularly, he'd have long since gotten over the urge to sign it "love, William", IMHO. Wow, months went by before that. William must have really been having trouble writing the first sentence. I suppose Julia thought he cut ties with her. I still think he was waiting psychologically for some letter from her. Totally. He has waited for some kind of invitation for every single progression in their relationship. Hmph. |
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Post by snacky on Jul 26, 2014 2:59:46 GMT
Totally. He has waited for some kind of invitation for every single progression in their relationship. Hmph. Hmm, I'm not sure I blame him. Remember how interested George was in the "secret signals" women send? This was the era of Victorian Hypocrisy where intimate relations were only supposed to exist within marriage, and women certainly weren't supposed to invite lascivious attentions in any way. Yet without such explicit invitations how were men supposed to know how far to go? On top of that there is the image of the Gallant Knight in Shining Armor sweeping a woman off her feet. And what about the passionate Latin Lover? Or the Dark and Stormy Heathcliff getting his way precisely because he is so confident in himself? Men had all those notions to contend with, just as they have to contend with today. And, just as today, women were thought of as a sort of prize: not an autonomous human being in themselves. If a woman could not be "won" through action and merit, men would feel frustrated and wronged, and possibly get violent. Anyway there are many cultural as well as personal ways of resolving the fact that women can't say what they like directly without being "bad girls" (at least not in Victorian/Edwardian times). William's strategy seems to be to look for a physical cue. In all his love scenes, you see the woman making some gesture: but once the gesture is made, "opening the door", William is pretty confident. We've seen him happy with the woman being "on top" or going full "Don Juan" seduction mode. However, once he was physically separated from Julia, William couldn't see any of those gestures. He had no guidance as to what she was "secretly" thinking or feeling under the Victorian Facade. It's sad he didn't try to go to Buffalo right away. |
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