Even Zeus Carver and John McClane agree,

[gategrrl]

That Michael Weatherly on Dark Angel is freaking HOT. 

I caught an episode on late night television last night, and saw the one where Jessica Alba's character (not such a good actress but very pretty) helps some mutant children escape from somewhere, and gives them weird names.

His character (at least in that episode) reminded me a lot of early Daniel Jackson. You know, scruffy, glasses, had the same type of look to him, and the character had a similar feel to him, too.

However, that does not mean I'm fangrrling the show, because from what I've seen of it, it's somewhere on the level of Earth Final Conflict, or Earth Two in quality and depth of characterization. Or late Stargate.

And there's just something incredibly cheesy on creating a stupid virus tailored specifically for one man, through one infected woman, that is totally a weak plot device and worthy of cliche fan fiction, where the cliches run around like mice. Does every woman have this virus? Or only Alba's character? It would be much more angsty if the Weatherly character couldn't get near ANY woman, let alone superherochicky in Dark Angel. He'd have to live like a monk. But then, the show would be much more about him than her (because that's how it goes in a show when a man is denied his female reward/s).

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[deej1957.livejournal.com]

He's not exactly ugly on NCIS, either *G*

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Meh. I've seen NCIS. It's cute, but...different character, different vibe, shorter hair, not scruffy. Womanizing spoiled male brats are not my cuppa. I don't care if they're tragic underneath. They're assholes.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

I'd like to note that in the original Battlestar Galactica, I abhorred Starbuck and preferred Mr Straight arrow Apollo. Starbuck was just the skeeviest character around. I never could see the appeal of him. Face always came across the same way on The A-Team (not that I ever watched an entire episode of that show). I think it was the actor's personality shining through in each role. Unappealing.

[webbgirl.livejournal.com]

I loved his look on Dark Angel. I also love his look on NCIS, but I'd love if he got to do more undercover work and scruff up a bit.

I think it's a testament to MW's acting abilities that the two characters are soooo different.

[captain-tiv.livejournal.com]

He looks good in scruff.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

I LOVED Dark Angel. It's really not as bad as it seems. I definitely think that if it had gotten a third season, that would have been outstanding. The finale of season 2 set-up some really interesting possibilities. Plus, it had Jensen in it. *sigh* Lovely, Jensen.... :-D

Anyway. Yes, Logan can only not touch Max (Alba's character). But their love is so epic they'll do anything they can to overcome it. Which, by the end of the series is Logan wearing like 2 layers of latex gloves and washing himself with bleach every chance he gets. :-)

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

That sounds painful. The bleach, I mean.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Well, it was like watered down bleach, but still. Yeah. It was just weird...

[agentotter.livejournal.com]

Wait, what? He couldn't touch her? Like literally? I did not know that. I just thought they were having a Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name season or something. (I have no context. I've mostly watched clips of Jensen's parts because hello, Jensen. Hotness.) That's... kinda rough. And probably not as adorable as the same thing was on Pushing Daisies, where they got creative with beekeeper suits and plastic wrap.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

They couldn't touch bare skin to bare skin. He took to wearing gloves and all that stuff later in the season. But yeah, no touchy. (And, oh, yeah. Jensen = total hotness!)

[tejas.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. ;-) Logan was *the* best thing about Dark Angel. :-)

[whisper99.livejournal.com]

Season 1 was great. Season 2 jumped the shark.

Jessica Alba (Max) and Michael Weatherly (Logan) were doing the nasty hard and heavy in real life and could not stop touching each other, so they wrote it into the show that Logan had this disease where he would die if Max touched him :)

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

I can see the funny in that (really!) but it's still one of the stupidest things I've heard. Of course, since the show was all about genetic manipulation I can see where they got the idea. But still!

So when did they break up? When she moved on to bigger and better things?

[whisper99.livejournal.com]

I actually don't remember when they broke up or why...they were engaged and everything but I don't think they got married. She was really young when she did DA - something like 18 I think.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I loved Dark Angel. I really like Jessica Alba in a fangirly kind of way, but I started watching it after I got into SPN in order to see Jensen Ackles. I barely noticed Michael Weatherly, though I liked him and thought him good looking. I thought he and Jensen had really great chemistry, but it wasn't used much, because apparently there were a lot of problems on that set.

Jensen said (at a convention...I've seen the video) that a couple of years later, Jessica actually called him up, took him out to lunch, and apologized to him for her part in all of that. heh That made me like her all the more. Before then, it was known in the fandom that tehre were problems, but that was the first time (AFAIK) that Jensen acknowledged it publicly.

Anyway, people who were fans of the show tend to like season 1 best, but since I watched season 2 in order to see Jensen, naturally I liked that season better. heh I liked it enough to watch season 1 as well, though, and I can definitely see that the overall story was better. Season 2 became more of a "creature of the week" kind of thing. I didn't care because mmmm... Jensen. heh

Anyway, because of my unexplainable liking for Jessica Alba and my love of Jensen and my appreciation of MW on the show, I quite liked it. :-) But then again, I liked Saved by the Bell, too. hehe I have no taste.

Edited because "out" and "up" are two different words.

[agentotter.livejournal.com]

YES. He is totally, incredibly hot. I hate to admit to having watched too much of that show, because it is awful and horrible, but the second season had both Michael Weatherly and Jensen Ackles so it's possible that I might've possibly downloaded a zillion clips in order to look at baby Jensen Ackles kicking ass.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

I've seen him on NCIS, and he really didn't float my boat on that show. Or his character didn't. I dunno. But on DA he was really radiating those "I am a Daniel Jackson clone" vibes.

[agentotter.livejournal.com]

(Also, I just finished reading your actual post because apparently I saw "Michael Weatherly is hot" and just had to agree immediately, but I would like it noted that I love your idea. Logan should've been allergic to all women, and naturally they could have solved the problem of his sexual frustration by having him sleep with Alec. A lot. On screen. For us to watch.)

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Now...hmmm. That did cross my mind, but since I'm not a huge slasher, yet still...