The Scott Caan Effect
Oct. 30th, 2011 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusToday's post is on the subject of actors I cannot stand. Yes, those folks whose involvement in a project makes me actively run in the opposite direction no matter how much the whole project might otherwise push my buttons like a rat in a Skinner box.
Having talked a little with someone (I think it may have been![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xandutch but I would not swear to it...) about this at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
connotations, I am now officially calling it The Scott Caan Effect. For me where UK-only shows are concerned it can also be the Keeley Hawes Effect as she also has the same impact on me and prevented me from watching more than about five minutes of Ashes To Ashes (though some might say that was a blessed relief!).
Yes, this particular psychological effect is powerful and strikes without warning. Just when you're thinking you might get into a ridiculous remake of a 1960's show, despite how much folks have told you that you ought and the autonomic response that provokes, the Effect strikes and you're gagging and reaching for the remote. It may be even stronger, to the point where mere photos of the cast make you vomit a little in your mouth because of the insane shortness and the bizarre hair.
Of course, for others the Scott Caan Effect is merely the stuff of legend and there will be pointing and mocking, however I suspect that each one of us has a 'Scott Caan' to whom we instinctively react this way, otherwise we're just in denial. So, good flist, if it's not the eponymous short-arse himself (and I'm not at all bitter that the man in question apparently beat out Michael Shanks for the role mostly on the basis of his surname rather than his acting ability...), who is your Scott Caan?
Having talked a little with someone (I think it may have been
xandutch but I would not swear to it...) about this at connotations, I am now officially calling it The Scott Caan Effect. For me where UK-only shows are concerned it can also be the Keeley Hawes Effect as she also has the same impact on me and prevented me from watching more than about five minutes of Ashes To Ashes (though some might say that was a blessed relief!). Yes, this particular psychological effect is powerful and strikes without warning. Just when you're thinking you might get into a ridiculous remake of a 1960's show, despite how much folks have told you that you ought and the autonomic response that provokes, the Effect strikes and you're gagging and reaching for the remote. It may be even stronger, to the point where mere photos of the cast make you vomit a little in your mouth because of the insane shortness and the bizarre hair.
Of course, for others the Scott Caan Effect is merely the stuff of legend and there will be pointing and mocking, however I suspect that each one of us has a 'Scott Caan' to whom we instinctively react this way, otherwise we're just in denial. So, good flist, if it's not the eponymous short-arse himself (and I'm not at all bitter that the man in question apparently beat out Michael Shanks for the role mostly on the basis of his surname rather than his acting ability...), who is your Scott Caan?
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Date: 2011-10-30 06:35 pm (UTC)I don't know if I have a TV Scott Caan. It's been so long since I've watched new television regularly that I'm out of the loop.
Michael Shanks was really in the running for Danny Williams? Wow. I don't know if my brain could have handled anyone but RDA calling him Danny. Plus, my TV set would probably have melted if Shanks and Alex O'Loughlin were on screen at the same time.
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Date: 2011-10-30 06:54 pm (UTC)Yes, Shanks certainly read for the part of Danno but it still couldn't have been quite as overtly homoerotic as Alex O'Loughlin and Jason Dohring in Moonlight (a thing of beauty, their scenes together, in anotherwise not-so-great show).
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Date: 2011-10-30 07:29 pm (UTC)I hate to say it, but Shanks would have been too old for the role. Yeah, I know he's only six years older than Caan but for that persnickety demo that the networks are chasing, those are six big years.
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Date: 2011-10-30 07:33 pm (UTC)Fahrvergnügen!
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Date: 2011-10-30 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-30 08:11 pm (UTC)