Courtesy of the Joe Penny Tribute Page on MySpace (I suggest popping over for a look if you're a Joe fan - HEAPS of pics, vids etc) - which is run by the same fan/fen as The Joe Penny Zone, here is a clip from a German talk show, including, for the last one minute, Joe singing with a back-up band - presumably it's his never-released single.

( Youube vid under the cutCollapse )

I was thinking tonight, as I watched this clip and a couple of others over there, that I cant get excited about Joe except on Riptide. Or more to the point, I can't get excited about Joe full stop - I can only get excited about Nick. And Cody. Preferably together.

I can get slightly more excited about Perry, but that's primarily because of his voice. Woof.

This is possibly quite odd. I mean, in an abstract sense I find Perry and Joe of equal attractiveness (read: ZOMG so hot), but it's almost like seeing them together in Riptide, combined with all the beautiful slash and the way they are together (ZOMG so hotness CUBED *vbg*) has spoiled me for them separately.

So I see Joe on his own being normally hot, and I'm like: yeah ok, but how about a moment like this one instead?

See? Spoiled. Do you blame me?

Anyway, is it just me? Do others feel this way about the actors who play their OTP(s)?

I just saw my dear oceana_  commenting in a post about the hotness she has just had the privilege of observing in this week's NCIS (a sentiment I can totally appreciate, even though, being in NZ, we are waaaaaaaaaay behind, series-wise. *licks* Tony, and a good portion of the rest of the show).

And it made me wonder: how important is new hotness/character updates in keeping you in a fandom?

Me? I'm deeply entrenched (no-one die of surprise when I mention this) in Riptide, and have been for 25 years, despite the fact the canon's been closed since '86, and there were only three seasons to begin with. It doesn't bother me in the slightest that the only viewing of my boys I get is what I have already seen.

Obviously, for me, the current-ness of a show, and whether it's still being produced has no effect on my fannishness.

How about my dear friends? How important is it, to you, that there are new things to see in your fandom? If you're fannish about a show and it's cancelled, does that effect your feelings about it? If you become interested in a closed-canon fandom, do you stay interested once you've seen all the shows?

Or is it fandom-dependent, perhaps? Some fandoms you love forever, others you fangirl while they're showing then lose interest?

The other thing is, I'm kinda pleased about my closed canon (*strokes*). TPTB can't hand me nasty surprises this way, kill or worse, marry off my boys, or otherwise disrupt my happy fangirling. I'm also the kind of girl who skips to the end to check it out, half-way through a book.

I would love to hear what you guys think about this?