The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part ten — Page 71

It really is, and they're never worth the obscene amount of money that most photographers charge.

My senior pic comes with a mildly amusing story:

The way it worked was that we filled out the order form and then a postcard would be mailed to our home address telling us the day and time we were to report to the auditorium ready to have the picture taken. Of course, my handwriting is absolutely terrible, the people at the photo studio can't exactly decipher it, and the postcard gets sent to a non-existent address that bears a passing resemblance to mine. I was petrified that my picture would turn out horribly because instead of knowing in advance to do my hair and makeup extra nice that day, I was told "go downstairs - you were supposed to get your picture taken 20 minutes ago!" All things considered, I guess it came out pretty well:

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$500? That's f**king insane.

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Your hair and makeup look perfect - very nice picture.

My cap/gown/rose pics were all terrible - I didn't buy any of those. I only bought the one pose I posted here.

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Senior pictures are amusing to look at.

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Well, you could always fry it with fair too much hair dye to achieve the look. :P

That's a great picture too, Lexi.

Jessica, since I have straightish hair myself, I tend to be jealous of hair like yours.

I only saw Deborah and Adam live, so can't really compare with Heather. I would say that they didn't have huge chemistry, but made the show work. I remember that the moment when Radames grabs and kisses Aida was pretty electric. There was more initial antagonism between them maybe. Adam added a bit to the scene on the ship. When she asks "Are you mocking me, Captain?" and he replies, "No, admiring you," he looked her up and down very blatantly.

In reality, that prediction is probably accurate, Lexi. But the fact that it's a Disney show kind of overrides more realistic interpretations of Egyptian military captain to Nubian slave girl interactions.

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Chloe, those were my thoughts in response to my initial feelings about the scene, but it still seems so strange. So, we're supposed to look back on the scene, as the audience, as simply Radames admiring her and wanting to sleep with her, but not necessarily through force? To me, the subtext of those lines seems like rape, not like any sort of admiration or intrigue. Also, not to be overly frank, but isn't "on your knees" pretty, well, straightforward?

Hm, I never interpreted "on your knees" that way, but as a demand for submission to his authority on her part. But then I'm so pure.

Well, my mind is obviously in the gutter, then...

Also, though the story is set in ancient times, the characters have been given a more or less modern psychological makeup. If Radames had a rapist's mentality as we understand it today, her defiance would have really set him off, rather than keeping him away from her.

I thought that was kind of the point, though. Normally, his character would have raped a woman who dared to defy him like that, but something about Aida specifically made him back off rather than continue to force himself upon her, hence the whole "I'm a changed man for you" (although that very obviously refers to more than just this scene, if it refers to this at all).

Also, I wonder if he would have cared about cleaning himself up first.

I didn't take that as an "I want to look and feel pretty" gesture, but rather one of power and dominance. He knows that would set her off; he couldn't care less about whether his back is clean.

Anyway, I don't even know why I'm pushing this viewpoint because I don't think I've either heard anyone else agree with it, nor do I necessarily agree with it myself, but it's typical me playing devil's advocate I suppose. Either way, it's food for thought.

Updated On: 6/2/06 at 12:46 AM