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[arcanetrivia]

I think Benedict Cumberbatch looks like some kind of weird alien* and I do not find him attractive at all. To each her own, of course, but I just don't get it.

I mean. Just.



I don't see it.

Today's episode of unpopular opinions has been brought to you by "I did not follow anyone on tumblr for Sherlock so what is all this Sherlock doing all over my dash."**

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* I wanted to make a totally-looks-like comparison with a picture of a "grey", but his eyes, though creepily wide-set, are not actually large enough to make the point.

** I know tumblr is for whatever the hell you feel like posting and hey if it really bugs me that much, unfollow. Jus' sayin', sometimes I don't get who fandom elects as hawt.

Comments

[venturous]

he IS odd looking. I dont like him as much as Bene as I do Sherlock. He was a very weak chin/jaw in profile, but looks ok from the front. If you've seen Atonement they played up on his ugliness quite effectively, making him look like the inbred creep that he was...

as far as attractive goes, I think I want to be him, since he'd be HELL to be involved with. John Watson, while not a pin-up beauty, looks right cuddly to me.

[elf]

I will second the "some kind of weird alien" judgment call, and say that I enjoy that kind of thing. If he had tentacles, he'd be perfect.

[arcanetrivia]

I replied to a somewhat similar comment over on LJ to say that he's in some kind of uncanny valley for me: he doesn't look like a normal human, but neither does he manage to trip my sensors of applying elvish or some other kind of beauty standard.

[fera_festiva]

Hey, you know you can block stuff you don't like with Tumblr Savior, right? Might save you the trouble - I've used it to block stuff I don't care to see. Seriously, it's a godsend. :)

[takemyrevolution]

I agree! I don't dislike him as an actor, and I do like Sherlock, but I don't find him attractive at all.

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

I think he does too, and it's much of why I find him attractive.

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

(Namely, he looks funny about the same way Cull does. I have Types.)

[arcanetrivia]

Cull?

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

Boyfriend of six years. Of whom I have few to no good pictures, and who keeps thwarting me when I try to fix this. I don't think you were ever co-located for a camping event.

[arcanetrivia]

For me he's in some kind of uncanny valley... looks weird for a human, but doesn't tip over into where I would apply elvish (or similar) standards instead.

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

heh. Right. Whereas I don't so much have a tipping point as a couple elf-based Types with a continuum from reasonably attractive normal human-looking to Hot.

[lilyevans-snape.livejournal.com]

I find him downright odd looking, but, weirdly, that's the appeal. I've heard people who really can't stand the look of him say that he is 'horse faced', and I do sort of see where they are getting that from, however unflattering such a reference is.

Honestly, I've seen him in a few other things, and he doesn't seem as intriguing or appealing. So, for me at least, I think that most of the attraction comes from the personality traits of the Sherlock character. I'm sure that is some sort of disturbing statement on my psychological issues, but there it is...

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

So, for me at least, I think that most of the attraction comes from the personality traits of the Sherlock character.

Yes. This.

And surprisingly, in the Sherlock fandom, this isn't really that unpopular of an opinion. Sorry shyfoxling you're going to have to do better to shock us. :))

[arcanetrivia]

Haha, well, I'm glad I didn't get a bunch of WHAT YOU CRAZY comments... :)

[r-grayjoy.livejournal.com]

LOL! Frankly, I find a lot of the people my f-list routinely drools over to be grossly unappealing! Believe me, I grasp the concept of ugly-sexy, but most of those people are just ugly-ugly. XD

[arcanetrivia]

He is at least not a "masculine" man, with all those weird muscles and things I hear the male of the species can have. But I just keep going ACK THAT FACE. He reminds me of many of the rather weird faces in Oblivion (Elder Scrolls).



...I dunno.

[akatnamedeaster.livejournal.com]

It's the eyes, they're so far apart and that lantern jaw and the overly bowed upper lip and...ick. He has nice hair though.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

I've known about him for years and never once thought he was even remotely cute. Good actor, but does nothing for me. The current worship of him both boggles me and annoys me.

[arcanetrivia]

I've never seen anything he was in (including Sherlock), so I can't judge his acting ability, but yeah. My dash tends to similar worship of him as of Alan Rickman (through all the HP/Snape stuff I follow), who, while not my personal cuppa, I can at least see where people are coming from (especially in younger years). You like what you like, but every time I see an "OMG SEX GAWD BENEDICT" kind of post, I'm like, um, oookay, tumblr?

[pern-dragon.livejournal.com]

When I first became aware of him, I seriously didn't understand his face. Frankly, I still don't, but I find him compelling and attractive if not exactly hot in the physical sense. It's much the same for me and my vision of Snape in my head--not conventionally attractive but there's an intensity in him that I am drawn to and that makes him sexy to me. Cumberbatch's Sherlock has that sort of draw for me, and that makes him more physically attractive to me. I've watched him in another BBC period miniseries, and he's different but still fascinating, especially for that long, lean body type even if his face is incomprehensible. :)

[dixiebell12.livejournal.com]

It's all about the character he plays, for me. Take Alan Rickman, he's okay until you put him in Snape's character and I'm drooling. Plus Cumberbatch has a voice that almost rivals Rickman's.


Hugs,
Dix

[arcanetrivia]

Well, I got over my brief crush on Alan Rickman's voice several years ago and I am not big on him as Snape specifically, so this isn't doing much to sell it... ;) I can see liking a character (or person) and thus they become more physically attractive to you, but Benedict is in some kind of deal-breaker uncanny valley I just can't get past, so I find the WOO SEX GOD posts I see on tumblr rather perplexing to me.

[delphipsmith]

I think he looks like an elf who's had his ears fixed.

[arcanetrivia]

See my above choice of comparison shot in Oblivion - that's one of the high elves in the game. However his face doesn't really read "elvish" to me either (as I said above in my comment to dancinglights, for which he'd need to be more feminine and ethereal, I think. So he's stuck in this "ack weird" place in my eyes.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

As my Mother always said, life would be pretty boring if we all liked the same sort of men - though her tastes and mine were more or less in concord, and I doubt she'd have seen what all the Cumbersquee is about either.

He has nice cheekbones - if you're into cheekbones.

Not my favourite Holmes.

ETA - It's a typical 'British upper class twit' sort of face (see also Hugh Grant) - maybe that's the attraction?

[arcanetrivia]

"Cumbersquee" sounds very naughty.

Mmm, I dunno if I see them as very similar facially... Hugh Grant is more classically handsome to me. (Also not a type I'm typically attracted to, but different.)

[ninth-myth.livejournal.com]

I am thoroughly in the squee camp (and was well before sherlock, so although sherlock does take it to helpless squee, it's not just the character). Something about the eyes and the voice and the intensity do ping the elf/fae filters for me, but I'm quite partial to asian faces so the "odd" proportions may favour that aspect of my taste.

[lily-hbp.livejournal.com]

Agrees. No likes from me... ugh