an important question

[rivendellrose]

Question: I cannot possibly be the only hetero- or bisexual girl in the world who doesn't find Zach Quinto attractive, can I?

Insert obligatory "not that there's anything wrong with that" clause here. I just don't, and it bemuses me because... well, because he's kind of got My Type written all over him, and yet I am so unmoved.

So... stand up and be counted, ye other 'nope, not seeing it!' people... because I'm feeling very alone in this right now, and slightly afraid that if I keep up with this whole 'sucked back into the old fandom' thing, I may just develop some sort of... backhanded attraction-by-association thing. o_O Sort of like how the more you watch Doctor Who, the more likely you are to eventually find yourself completely un-bothered by the idea of any of the Doctors? And to even sort of find all of them attractive? Or maybe that's just me... There but for the grace of 'dear god, no' go I, I suppose, anyway.

Anyway. Humor me, people. I'm feeling sullied and unusual exhausted and crummy from a messy day at work and a nasty bout of hormones.

Comments

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I've only seen him in ads and photos, but he doesn't do anything for me :)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Two of us! I'm feeling less lonely already, thank you! ;)

[babel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't see it either. You are not alone!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

*Clings to icon* All this excitement over the movie is great, but the new fans get me kind of twitchy sometimes with their "omg QUINTO" while I'm sitting there going "mmm... Nimoy... I mean, wait, what?"

Speaking of, I really do need to find some good Trek icons to go with this current binge of mine. Did you make yours, or where did you find it?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen New Star Trek, but he doesn't do much for me. Maybe because I've seen too much of him on Heroes.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Mmm, maybe that's why I don't give a damn, too. I was underwhelmed by Heroes in general (and that was the first season, when by all accounts I've heard it was at its best.

...Besides, I was too distracted by Christopher Eccleston and George Takei to give a single damn about little prissy Sylar. :D

[sjen.livejournal.com]

Uhm.

It's the eyebrows. Big, bushy caterpillar eyebrows of doom that I cannot resist. Once he waxed that monstrosity, I lost interest.

(And Pine is hotter.)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Awww, the eyebrows, really? That's funny - I was actually thinking how relieved I was that they trimmed them for the movie. I found them distracting in Heroes, like they were trying to eat his face or something. o_O

(Seeeeee, there we shall have to differ. He's cute! And he's infinitely less annoying than Shatner, IMHO. But sooooo not my type.)

[lacrimaeveneris.livejournal.com]

I find him to be rather "meh" in my book.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[niwatorimegami.livejournal.com]

I never found him all that attractive on Heroes, but he's strangely appealing to me in the Spock get-up. However, during this current Star Trek fanfic spree of mine, I'm still seeing Nimoy in my head for all the Spock parts.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I'm still seeing Nimoy in my head for all the Spock parts.

That's my explanation for everything at the moment. Even during the movie, I was all "YAY, SPOCK!"... and then they'd do a close-up and I swear my poor little brain would recoil in horror - "WHO THE HELL - oh, right, it's you. Damn. Oh, hey, look! There's the other, old Spock! Yay, Spock! ♥♥♥"

I think my brain has managed, through sheer force of optimism, to stick young!Leonard-Nimoy!Spock into all the Quinto!Spock bits and just sort of shut off all other possibility. That way I don't have to feel weird about feeling strangely pervy over Spock while still having the "ack, Quinto" reaction. *Nods*

[aris-tgd.livejournal.com]

Now you know how I feel about Jack Harkness/John Barrowman? Except that you have people to back up your insanity. ;)

(Including me, more or less, though I'll admit I haven't actually seen the movie yet, and don't want to declare what side of the argument I'm taking. ;)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Awww, poor Jack. How can you not love Jack? He loves you... along with everyone else in the universe... ♥

In all seriousness, though - he's not really my kind of attraction, either. I just love the character - he's so fun and shameless. And strangely charming. I didn't mean to, but I did fall for it a little bit. :P

[ruuger]

*stands up*

Of course, I don't find the Supernatural boys, Johnny Depp, David Tennant or most of the other fandom darlings particularly attractive either and have accepted the fact that James Marsters is my last bastion of heterosexuality (and even with JM it might just be that he's exactly my type - short, smart, and slightly annoying :D).

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

With you on the SPN boys. Johnny Depp I still think is attractive on a part-by-part basis, and... it's funny, I find David Tennant loads more attractive than the Tenth Doctor. Which is just bizarre, to me, but there you go - it's a personality thing. *Shrugs*

Marsters is a good last bastion of heterosexuality. Mmm.

[cirakaite.livejournal.com]

I'm not hetero- or bi-, but I usually at least recognise an attractive man without necessarily needing to be personally attracted. Quinto . . . nah. Maybe it's the creep factor from Heroes, and maybe I'll change my mind once I've seen the movie, but I don't see it either.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

He's definitely cute at a few points in the movie, but... eh. I was distracted by too many other people to be overly interested in him. ♥

[paranoidangel]

I don't know, who is Zach Quinto?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Sylar in Heroes, and Spock in the most recent Star Trek movie. Sorry, I should have clarified - I was kinda sleepy when I wrote this. >_

[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

I really don't see it at all!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[platoapproved.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, the scandal! I adore Quinto for his acting, and also love his face on an aesthetic level. It's not necessarily a sexual thing. I just find it really interesting.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It is definitely interesting. I keep trying to figure out what it is, exactly, about him that I don't like. Because for the most part, his features on an individual basis each would normally be appealing to me. I'm a fan of the high cheekbones, dark hair, pale skin, dark eyes... it's just somehow all coming together with him in something that kind of makes me go "something's just not quite right there."

And, honestly? I was too busy comparing him unfavorably to my beloved Leonard Nimoy to get a clear read on his acting ability. Oops. :P

[diea.livejournal.com]

I didn't recognize the name, so I googled it. My first thought when I saw the pictures? "Oh god, Sylar!" Sylar-as-Spock is one of the main reasons I don't want to see the new Star Trek movie. Honestly, after you see a man cut people's heads open and generally act like a very scary crazy person, it's dificult to see him as anything else. Or at least it is for me.

On this day I, diea, stand up to be recognized as a bisexual woman who is not attracted to Zach Quinto.

Um, and if you don't know what I'm babbling about with Sylar, it's the name of Quinto's character on Heroes.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I should have specified - I have kind of a weird thing about remembering actors' names, it gets me in trouble a lot. It's hard to pretend to be blase about something when you know the name of every actor in it...

Anyway. I agree with you, he's just... slightly creepy. I didn't see the really scary bits of Heroes, only a few eps of the first season, but... still. He's just kind of a creepy looking guy!

[livii.livejournal.com]

He looks so much like Spock, but too pretty - his lips, and his eyes and eyelashes, such a prettyboy. I like cute and sweet (witness my choice of husband) but not all out prettyboy. So count me in.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

He looks so much like Spock, but too pretty - his lips, and his eyes and eyelashes, such a prettyboy.

That's it! I'd been trying to figure out what it was about him as Spock that made go "bwuh?" and that's it!

[hoshinekoyasha.livejournal.com]

I saw him as Slyer on Heroes first, I didn't think he was very goo looking then, but now i get creeped out every time I see him.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I didn't even see more than a few episodes of Heroes, and he was only in one of them if I remember right, but I still find him creepy. He's just... kind of creepy looking, damn it!

[snakewhissperer.livejournal.com]

of course the Doctor is attractive. any Doctor. I just prefer Nine, Ten and Four over the rest...in that order. ;-)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Same for me, with Nine, Eight, Four, and Ten. :)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I was really confused when Heroes fen thought he was hot, and I suspect I would have thought so even if he hadn't been Sylar!!!, but now that he is, I suspect I could never be convinced that he's hot. He's just Sylar. (This is also one reason I may never see this Star Trek movie. I grew up on Next Gen and have never been a TOS girl, so I wasn't interested in the movie to begin with, but as soon as they cast him I was like, "Uh, no.")

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I liked the movie, myself, but I was a fan of the old stuff in addition to the new, from way back, so... *Shrugs* I might be biased there.

[ex_mrs260625]

I don't find him attractive at all. I've never seen him in anything or heard his voice, just seen still pictures, but I think he's kind of funny looking.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yes! I mean not "oh my god what's wrong with him?" type funny, but definitely... I'm going to stick with "not my type."

[lovelies.livejournal.com]

If it's who I think it is, ie. Sylar from Heroes, then he does absolutely nothing for me.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the one. And thank you. I was starting to feel a bit crazy before this post. ;)

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't speak for straight or bisexual girls, but this bisexual boy is desperately hoping there'll be an hour-long Chris Pine/Zach Quinto make-out session deleted scene on the DVD. Sorry. :) If your problem is that he's "too pretty," that's totally fine -- you can just leave the too-pretty boys for me to drool over, 'kay? :)
____

And as for the Doctors:

One -- Umm. Ew?
Two -- Just too much like somebody's uncle.
Three -- .... If I had more of a thing for older men, then yeah, I would find him attractive, but I don't, so I'm not. (Exceptions: see "Bowie, David" and "McKellan, Ian".)
Four -- I totally get *why* people are attracted to him, but no, my buttons aren't pushed.
Five -- *Now* we're getting somewhere. Sure. In a heartbeat.
Six -- Sure. His personal magnetism alone would be enough. But he was cute, too.
Seven -- Hmm. No? Not entirely sure why not, but no.
Eight -- OH MY GOD YES PLEASE WHERE DOES THE LINE FORM *ahem*
Nine -- I waver. When he's being all goofy, then I just can't see it -- and then he gets all quiet and intense, and, yeah.
Ten -- the character? No, not really. Too fucked up in an I'm-not-going-to-take-responsibility-for-any-of-my-bullshit way for me to find him attractive. But David Tennant? He once said in an interview, "A bottle of wine and I'm anyone's." If I ever go to a convention he's at, I am bringing a bottle of wine and holding him to that.
Eleven -- will have to see the actual *character* first, but I suspect so.

Probably a more detailed breakdown than you were looking for, but there you are. :)

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I should maybe add here -- I found Zachary-as-Spock totally hot, but Zachary-as-Sylar not really so much so. Don't know why not.

[velleitas.livejournal.com]

He personally doesn't do anything for me. I find Spock attractive... not the actors who portray him. :P

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, and yes! Although, physically, it's Nimoy!Spock that I find attractive in that he's the one I think of when I think of the character.