Can you ship with a sense of humor about yourself?

[snacky]

If so, you will get a kick out of this vid.



Especially for non-canon and no-in-show-evidence-at-all-required shippers.

[lovemondays]

Brilliant!

[snacky]

Jun 15, 2014 2:29:43 GMT lovemondays said:

Brilliant!

Yet another song I can hardly listen to, but truer lyrics have never been spoken.

And I knew if I looked hard enough, this would be a crack pairing for MM:



It's going to be hard to argue against Jilliam with that proposal and all, though.

[lovemondays]

Do you ever wonder what they'd come up with if the writers ever pursued an inventor bromance between William and James. I love the inventions. They've started it already but oh where could it go?

[snacky]

Jun 15, 2014 2:43:33 GMT lovemondays said:

Do you ever wonder what they'd come up with if the writers ever pursued an inventor bromance between William and James. I love the inventions. They've started it already but oh where could it go?

Did you ever watch Wild Wild West? That show lays on the bromance so thick it's practically marriage. This show is from the late 60s, long before the Internet and pick-your-own-pairing fanfic. The US House Un-American Activities Committee was still actively persecuted gay men and there were regular raids/riots on gay bars in San Francisco (no much removed from the MM Til Death Do Us Part episode). Yet Wild Wild West was laying it on with a TRAWL. I could swear it was deliberate. Sure both men had belles on the side every week, but the only love and concern they regularly invoked was for each other. Today's implied cop "bromances" are a joke in comparison.

Ps. William and James look good together. I've mused in other posts how curious it is that my imagination doesn't really go there, and I think it has to do with some of Yannick Bisson's techniques as an actor.

[lovemondays]

Their chemistry in "Murdoch Air" was fantastic. They can appreciate each other's intellect and skill as well as a fairly similar value system (except for the eugenics thing). I think now that William knows James is one of the good guys, he is more relaxed and lighthearted with him. It's an interesting side of William that we don't get to see very often.

[snacky]

Jun 15, 2014 3:08:41 GMT lovemondays said:

Their chemistry in "Murdoch Air" was fantastic. They can appreciate each other's intellect and skill as well as a fairly similar value system (except for the eugenics thing). I think now that William knows James is one of the good guys, he is more relaxed and lighthearted with him. It's an interesting side of William that we don't get to see very often.

I totally agree about the chemistry, and James is one of my favorite chemistry. He has such a great spirit to be able to forgive William for costing him a fortune several times over (not to mention bringing the betrayal of his wife - the one person who "shared his passion" - to a boil). I hope James becomes some sort of regular character, though I'm not sure what his role could be. He also makes MM more "steampunky" which brings it closer to the "cult" category: and that's the category it belongs in, at least that would be the category in the U.S. context.