I left my slashy heart in San Francisco
Dec. 12th, 2002 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynMDs last night, spoilers if you care (not many do!)
I keep thinking that the producers of MDs, or possibly even the network, will tone down the insane level of slashiness between William Fichtner (Dr. Bruce Kellerman) and John Hannah (Dr. Robert Dalgety). Only instead, it keeps getting more and more intense. Last night's ep was a feast of slashiness, starting with the two of them in a grief management interventiony thing from the hospital wellness committee, over Dalgety's loss of his blink-and-you'd-miss-her girlfriend who also worked at the hospital. For some reason that's never explained, Kellerman is there with him. Watching him, amused at him, but... there, for no apparent reason. Other than that, you know, Dalgety needs his honey by his side.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
malisita said it perfectly over on her page about just why they are worth loving.
Later, they're in the locker room and Kellerman is pulling on a very nice shirt that drapes over his muscles quite well, but first we get a glimpse of a rather spectacular abdominal rack before he pulls it on, and of course, they have a little conversation, with tons of lines that seem...well, like a post-encounter conversation in the best slash stories. All very monosyllabic guyness ("you okay?" "yeah" "see you later?" "sure") and searching. Kellerman gets flowers that he thinks he'll give to his ex-wife, whom he believes may be sick, and then Dalgety and he meet up yet again (it wouldn't be an MDs if they didn't have encounters in the beginning, middle, and end; it's the law that each episode towards the end includes a scene with the two together being emotionally distraught) and Dalgety jokes about the flowers being for him (this occurs also after a previous scene where they meet up after Dalgety's lost his temper, the two seem to live at the hospital, probably because they can't bear to be without one another). Most of this occurs, of course, while Fichtner is running around in revealing and lovely sweat pants and that aforementioned flattering sweater, or the scrubs that show off his lovely arms.
At one point, Kellerman runs into Dr. Joyner, the other surgeon who he's been flirting with vaguely in a vain attempt by the producers to throw the audience off the slashy scent, and she asks him to get something to eat so they can talk about what's bothering him (he's not with Dalgety, that's what's bothering him!), and he demurs. She gazes at him with a "take me now, here in my insanely high stiletto heels" look, and I'm thinking, you just get in line, sis, because he's mine, first, and then Dalgety's.
Of course, the show is still execrable. The lines these two wonderful actors have to deliver are frequently painful. The caricatures of the HMO people are insulting to the audience (and when Donge goes into an operating room and demands that they not reattach a guy's pinky finger because it's costly and unnecessary, he's in a supposedly sterile room in his street clothes, and I just think, how on earth do you expect people to want to watch this show?). Yes, we know healthcare administrators are evil. Fine. Do something deeper. And having Pangborn running around trying to stop patients from coming to the Mish just to cut costs is just... no words for how dumb it is.
But then there's that slashy goodness. Just when I think I've moved so far into my het world of Buffy and Spike, and there's nothing slashily interesting for me, this show comes along. The two are always gazing longingly at each other (during the monosyllabic conversation while Kellerman's getting dressed, they keep looking at each other in that "I want you in the worst way" way), discussing their problems, relying on each other, and enjoying each other. I keep shouting at the screen, just kiss already! Get it over with!
I love Hannah's impish intensity, and Fichtner's hangdog sadness. You just know that he needs lots of hugs, preferably from a cute Scottish guy. And I don't know why suddenly everyone's calling Kellerman Keller, which three people did last night inexplicably, but I don't mind so much when Hannah does it, because it's just damn cute and sweet. Oh Fichtner, oh Hannah -- I love you so much together, and will weep copiously when you are gone (rumor has it the axe has officially come down on the show). At least you're in the right city for your love.
I keep thinking that the producers of MDs, or possibly even the network, will tone down the insane level of slashiness between William Fichtner (Dr. Bruce Kellerman) and John Hannah (Dr. Robert Dalgety). Only instead, it keeps getting more and more intense. Last night's ep was a feast of slashiness, starting with the two of them in a grief management interventiony thing from the hospital wellness committee, over Dalgety's loss of his blink-and-you'd-miss-her girlfriend who also worked at the hospital. For some reason that's never explained, Kellerman is there with him. Watching him, amused at him, but... there, for no apparent reason. Other than that, you know, Dalgety needs his honey by his side.
malisita said it perfectly over on her page about just why they are worth loving.Later, they're in the locker room and Kellerman is pulling on a very nice shirt that drapes over his muscles quite well, but first we get a glimpse of a rather spectacular abdominal rack before he pulls it on, and of course, they have a little conversation, with tons of lines that seem...well, like a post-encounter conversation in the best slash stories. All very monosyllabic guyness ("you okay?" "yeah" "see you later?" "sure") and searching. Kellerman gets flowers that he thinks he'll give to his ex-wife, whom he believes may be sick, and then Dalgety and he meet up yet again (it wouldn't be an MDs if they didn't have encounters in the beginning, middle, and end; it's the law that each episode towards the end includes a scene with the two together being emotionally distraught) and Dalgety jokes about the flowers being for him (this occurs also after a previous scene where they meet up after Dalgety's lost his temper, the two seem to live at the hospital, probably because they can't bear to be without one another). Most of this occurs, of course, while Fichtner is running around in revealing and lovely sweat pants and that aforementioned flattering sweater, or the scrubs that show off his lovely arms.
At one point, Kellerman runs into Dr. Joyner, the other surgeon who he's been flirting with vaguely in a vain attempt by the producers to throw the audience off the slashy scent, and she asks him to get something to eat so they can talk about what's bothering him (he's not with Dalgety, that's what's bothering him!), and he demurs. She gazes at him with a "take me now, here in my insanely high stiletto heels" look, and I'm thinking, you just get in line, sis, because he's mine, first, and then Dalgety's.
Of course, the show is still execrable. The lines these two wonderful actors have to deliver are frequently painful. The caricatures of the HMO people are insulting to the audience (and when Donge goes into an operating room and demands that they not reattach a guy's pinky finger because it's costly and unnecessary, he's in a supposedly sterile room in his street clothes, and I just think, how on earth do you expect people to want to watch this show?). Yes, we know healthcare administrators are evil. Fine. Do something deeper. And having Pangborn running around trying to stop patients from coming to the Mish just to cut costs is just... no words for how dumb it is.
But then there's that slashy goodness. Just when I think I've moved so far into my het world of Buffy and Spike, and there's nothing slashily interesting for me, this show comes along. The two are always gazing longingly at each other (during the monosyllabic conversation while Kellerman's getting dressed, they keep looking at each other in that "I want you in the worst way" way), discussing their problems, relying on each other, and enjoying each other. I keep shouting at the screen, just kiss already! Get it over with!
I love Hannah's impish intensity, and Fichtner's hangdog sadness. You just know that he needs lots of hugs, preferably from a cute Scottish guy. And I don't know why suddenly everyone's calling Kellerman Keller, which three people did last night inexplicably, but I don't mind so much when Hannah does it, because it's just damn cute and sweet. Oh Fichtner, oh Hannah -- I love you so much together, and will weep copiously when you are gone (rumor has it the axe has officially come down on the show). At least you're in the right city for your love.
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Date: 2002-12-12 10:00 am (UTC)*sniffle*.
God, that was beautiful. Now I'm melty over the guys all over again. I'd had a few hours to come off the high, but it's back.
Showtime needs to pick "MDs" up and make it their Sunday night lead-in to "Queer As Folk." That way Fichtner and Hannah can give into their characters' true feelings.
They are so cute together that it actually HURTS me. I mean, I just ache for them! I want them to kiss and hold each other. Because, while Dalgety has impish intensity and his darling "Keller" has hangdog sadness...they TRADE off. They are each other's strengths. They balance each other out.
Oh, God, I'm going to start quoting "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion or "Funeral Blues" by W.H. Auden any second now.
While, yes, overall the show has the same grandstanding badly written drama that plagued "Chicago Hope", it's a trait that I've *expected* from medical shows. And the great thing about "MDs" is that they KNOW it. The episode where somebody was shooting a t.v. show in Mish proves that. Why else would they bring in some gorgeously chesty theme park person to run the hospital? Why else would they be tossing blood and guts around like the Swedish chef going "Bork! Bork! Bork!"? Why else would their two leads be so unequivocally-don't-even-try-and-fool-us in LOVE?
Rather than see "MDs" as just a crappy show...it almost comes completely full circle into the land of farce, of satire.
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Date: 2002-12-12 10:18 am (UTC)Hey! I'll buy that! Anything to make me see past it. It's interesting that they never take anyone except Kellerman outside the hospital -- I keep thinking they're trying to avoid the joke that ER became the past few years, but... I almost wonder if that might mitigate some of the farcical aspects.
I was showing clips to some friends the other night. I talked about how they twinkle when they look at each other "when they have surgery together." My friends laughed at me -- they said "have surgery together" sounds like a code. And it is! They're always having surgery together and looking at each other with those sparkly, love-besotted eyes!
And you know... I get the feeling that neither Hannah nor Fichtner would have issues giving in on screen to their characters' true feelings. And golly, I like that!