Inquiring minds want to know...

[kellinator]

unanon and I can't figure it out: How come Agent Smith is so damn hot we can barely stand it, but Elrond isn't?

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[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

Because you're a sci-fi geek and not a fantasy geek.

It's also probably something to do with the suit and tie and sunglasses. Women like that combination, I hear.

cheers,
Phil

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

But the flaw in that is that I'm actually a much bigger fan of Lord of the Rings than The Matrix...

Ah well, must be the sunglasses.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Maybe you like guys who aren't as emotional and are smugly evil?

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Hell, that sounds like my love life...

[amai-unmei.livejournal.com]

'Cause bad guys in black are slurrrrrrrrrrrrrp-alicious!

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Amen to that!!

Though if we amend it to "snarky guys in black," suddenly we have an explanation for my Munch fixation...

[streamweaver.livejournal.com]

Because Elrond comes across as about as interesting as watching grass grow.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

*falls out of chair laughing*

That might have a little something to do with it...

[dustyskinandall.livejournal.com]

it's the suit.
definitely the suit.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

The suit, the sunglasses... Whatever it is, I'm grateful!

[39orangestreet.livejournal.com]

could it be because elrond is surrounded by an interesting plot, a good cast, and a well-written script, whereas while watching the matrix there's nothing enjoyable to look at or think about except agent smith?

[unanon.livejournal.com]

That's part of it, I think.

I also maintain that Elrond's Liv Tyler connections serve to repulse me a bit as well. *nods*

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

ding ding ding we have a winnah!!

[50f00tqueenie.livejournal.com]

it has to be the hair.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Whatever it is, he's delicious!

[ilexx.livejournal.com]

that i have no answer for.

but i'm a little too man-lusty right now to think about it, too.

i also can't manage to watch him as elrond without saying, "mister annderson."

reowr.

[dslartoo.livejournal.com]

Heh. When I heard that Weaving had been cast as Elrond, I had terrifying visions of him saying "Misss-ter Baggins! We.....need you to take this RING."

Fortunately, Jackson wasn't going to let anything like that happen. But it still worried me at first. :)

cheers,
Phil

[hooper-x.livejournal.com]

"Do you know what I hate the most about the Shire, Mister Baggins? The smell."

-HX

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's all that hobbit weed stinking up the place.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's two of us who are man-lusty today...

[renaissancekat.livejournal.com]

Well, duh--Agent Smith is eeeeeeevil while Elrond is boringly good.

Also, the hair and the suit. But still. Evil is hot. *evil laugh*

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

You are correct. Eeevil = hot. And Agent Smith is so droolingly, delightfullly eeevil...

*fans self in order to deal with the incredible hotness*

[whysoblue.livejournal.com]

gotta be the evilness. who wants the good guy?? who are we attracted to? the bad boys.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

*beats head against wall because she obviously hasn't learned her lesson*

[girlvinyl.livejournal.com]

You know...
Having starring roles in the Matrix Trilogy AND LOTR movies - that fucking actor must have a bazillion dollars.
Jeez.
Might as well put him in Harry Potter and Star Wars too.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

There could be a network. All Hugo Weaving, all the time...

[spiritchaser1.livejournal.com]

Because the sunglasses keep him from looking so much like freaky eyebrow guy?

Because he has better lines in Matrix?

Because of all the possibilities of a multi-Smith shagfest?

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

multi... Smith... shagfest? *collapses in a lake of drool*

[kai-ta-loipa.livejournal.com]

*joins you*
Dayum, I hadn't even considered that one...

[tyrantmouth.livejournal.com]

It's the whole bad-boy thing, for one. Power and evil can be surprisingly sexy.

And another reason, at least for me, is the whole emotionless, tightly-controlled thing. I see a man that straightlaced, all about "I'm a machine and I don't feel mere human emotions," and it makes me want to peel that back and find out what's underneath, and make it scream.

But that's just me. :)

[azurelunatic]

Yeah. Power. And he wants to *hurt* things with that power, where Elrond is controlled in the "I know I'm stronger than you, but I'm also a better man than you, so I won't tell you what I think of you," whereas Smith makes no bones about his opinions...

[tyrantmouth.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, that's another good point. That's probably another good reason I find Agent Smith attractive, because I'm all about the "I'll tell you exactly what I think of you." :)

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

By that description, Elrond's the one I'd want... yet Agent Smith is my lust object. I guess it really is all in the attitude.

[azurelunatic]

Yeah, but I see Elrond doing the "I'm a better being than you are because I am all-knowledgeable and long-lived, and I don't give a shit about you or your problems, because I'm going to outlive them, and by the way, my daughter thinks you're a nasty scum but she's too well-bred to say so, and I'm doing you a favor by telling you so" thing, and I get peeved with him.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Oh good grief, me too. Now it all suddenly starts to make sense. Byron, you are a genius!

[tyrantmouth.livejournal.com]

*takes a bow* :)

[adric]

Because Elrond is a better host to mortals than Galadriel, so he turned his glamours off before the meeting.

Duh.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

But is that because he's a better host, or because he didn't want Gimli mooning over him?

[polychromatic22.livejournal.com]

To quote sylvia plath:

"...Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you..."

We was raised that way baby.
Plus I think it's in our genes. Wasn't there thatstudy recently about "cads and dads" and how women try to have babies by cads, and try to marry dads because cads provide better genes and better possibility of more gene reproduction, whereas we marry dads because they provide the shelter and responsibility we need to carry those genes forward...

Or something

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

-blinks-

Suddenly, it all makes sense. We want to get knocked up by Agent Smith, and then marry Elrond. And if we're lucky once in a while we'll persuade Elrond to put on the sunglasses.

(Of course, wouldn't Elrond have the genetic edge, being an elf and all?)

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Damn straight!