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Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Jul. 11th, 2010 10:52 pmWhen I was a kid, right through being a young teenager, every kiss was my favorite. Kissing just seemed so perfect and warm and sweet and hot and...
Sex scenes made me uncomfortable. Actually, most of them still do. It's rare that I can imagine my own sex life (what little there is of it) looking that perfect. On the other hand, I can still strive for a perfect kiss.
Within that context, well, context counts for television kisses. Now that I'm older, more discerning, I want the build up to be right and the kiss itself to be the right one for the characters. I don't want the shy geek to kiss like Casanova in his prime and, except for very special circumstances, I don't want the femme fatale to kiss like she's in a 1950s prom date movie.
5. Robert and Laura Petrie kissed a lot in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Occasionally, it was played for laughs, but they really seemed like a married couple who twelve or so years later still liked each other as well as loved each other. So many sitcoms premised on marriage seem to have either the parents like each other, but they don't like their kids or they like their kids, but don't seem to like each other. I think my seventh grade sex-ed teacher who told the class, "You'll find a lot more people to love than you think. You'll find even more whom you'll like. What's unique is to find someone you both love and like -- that's the man you should marry." (It was an all-girls school.) I'm not certain she's 100% right, but I have learned that the marriages and romantic relationships that I believe work well in art -- whether television, play, novel, or movie -- reflect that dynamic of having both emotions.
4. Sapphire and Steel is an odd series. Supposedly, it was about elements who protected the time line and thus the universe. Yes, I know steel and sapphires aren't elements. The creator was a very atmospheric writer, but a lousy scientist. In the second series, there's a moment when Steel is trapped in a time loop that puts him into World War I. Sapphire finds him a way out, and, for just a moment, he kisses her hand. It's one of the most erotic things I've seen because Steel, as a character, is so stoic and cold that small intimacy becomes magnified to a searing heat.
3. I admit it, "Somebody's Watching" is not the best episode of Criminal Minds, but having Doctor Reid pulled into a swimming pool and continue babbling about transference as a luscious young woman in a bikini keeps kissing him does it for me. Especially when he frames her face with his hands and starts to kiss her back. This is another instance where the kiss is just so right for the character.
2. I didn't watch Dharma and Greg after the first season, but I liked the first season a lot and I especially loved the pilot episode. Two people have a chance encounter, meet again within the hour (because she's found where he worked from an article in that day's newspaper), gone on a date, married, had lunch with his folks, and fought to the point of breaking up all within the space of about thirty-six hours. Dharma is so heartbroken when she finally comes back to her apartment, and he's sitting there quietly and says, echoing something she'd said earlier, "What took you so long?" The kiss that follows made me believe that these two people with nothing in common were perfect for each other.
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snopes_faith, if you still haven't made it to the end of season 2 of The 4400 and don't want to be spoiled, stop reading. *G*
All right. Marco Pacella, geek in his mid to late 20s, has crushed on Diana Skouris since the first time the audience sees him. He doesn't harass her, and he's all business when he needs to be, but he's also someone who cares about her, protects her from the powers that be when necessary. She asks him to break the law and be a whistleblower on a project, and he does it. When the powers that be end up in jail, she invites him over for dinner with her and her daughter. He treats it as a friendly gesture, nothing more. But Diana walks right up to him, raises his glasses with her thumbs, and kisses him. It's hot. Marco doesn't even open his eyes until after she's stepped away and gone back to the stove. The kiss is so perfectly them.
Sex scenes made me uncomfortable. Actually, most of them still do. It's rare that I can imagine my own sex life (what little there is of it) looking that perfect. On the other hand, I can still strive for a perfect kiss.
Within that context, well, context counts for television kisses. Now that I'm older, more discerning, I want the build up to be right and the kiss itself to be the right one for the characters. I don't want the shy geek to kiss like Casanova in his prime and, except for very special circumstances, I don't want the femme fatale to kiss like she's in a 1950s prom date movie.
5. Robert and Laura Petrie kissed a lot in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Occasionally, it was played for laughs, but they really seemed like a married couple who twelve or so years later still liked each other as well as loved each other. So many sitcoms premised on marriage seem to have either the parents like each other, but they don't like their kids or they like their kids, but don't seem to like each other. I think my seventh grade sex-ed teacher who told the class, "You'll find a lot more people to love than you think. You'll find even more whom you'll like. What's unique is to find someone you both love and like -- that's the man you should marry." (It was an all-girls school.) I'm not certain she's 100% right, but I have learned that the marriages and romantic relationships that I believe work well in art -- whether television, play, novel, or movie -- reflect that dynamic of having both emotions.
4. Sapphire and Steel is an odd series. Supposedly, it was about elements who protected the time line and thus the universe. Yes, I know steel and sapphires aren't elements. The creator was a very atmospheric writer, but a lousy scientist. In the second series, there's a moment when Steel is trapped in a time loop that puts him into World War I. Sapphire finds him a way out, and, for just a moment, he kisses her hand. It's one of the most erotic things I've seen because Steel, as a character, is so stoic and cold that small intimacy becomes magnified to a searing heat.
3. I admit it, "Somebody's Watching" is not the best episode of Criminal Minds, but having Doctor Reid pulled into a swimming pool and continue babbling about transference as a luscious young woman in a bikini keeps kissing him does it for me. Especially when he frames her face with his hands and starts to kiss her back. This is another instance where the kiss is just so right for the character.
2. I didn't watch Dharma and Greg after the first season, but I liked the first season a lot and I especially loved the pilot episode. Two people have a chance encounter, meet again within the hour (because she's found where he worked from an article in that day's newspaper), gone on a date, married, had lunch with his folks, and fought to the point of breaking up all within the space of about thirty-six hours. Dharma is so heartbroken when she finally comes back to her apartment, and he's sitting there quietly and says, echoing something she'd said earlier, "What took you so long?" The kiss that follows made me believe that these two people with nothing in common were perfect for each other.
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snopes_faith, if you still haven't made it to the end of season 2 of The 4400 and don't want to be spoiled, stop reading. *G*All right. Marco Pacella, geek in his mid to late 20s, has crushed on Diana Skouris since the first time the audience sees him. He doesn't harass her, and he's all business when he needs to be, but he's also someone who cares about her, protects her from the powers that be when necessary. She asks him to break the law and be a whistleblower on a project, and he does it. When the powers that be end up in jail, she invites him over for dinner with her and her daughter. He treats it as a friendly gesture, nothing more. But Diana walks right up to him, raises his glasses with her thumbs, and kisses him. It's hot. Marco doesn't even open his eyes until after she's stepped away and gone back to the stove. The kiss is so perfectly them.
