This will be the most embarrassing post of this week.
When we left Amoeba we went straight to Universal Hollywood (if by straight we mean being dropped off at the City Walk and getting lunch and looking around there for a bit).
We were going to stay for the Halloween Horror party, which was our main reason for going (along with using up some airline credits that were going to expire).
Again, most of this trip will go up on the travel blog, but there is this aspect that is not really travel-related.
Universal had a lot of Fallout posters and banners up. Not only is it a popular game and television show, but also one of the haunted houses had a Fallout theme.
This meant that I passed many images of The Ghoul.
The Ghoul is a bounty hunter who was originally actor Cooper Howard, spokesman for Vault-Tec. There are many "ghouls" (people changed by the radioactive fallout, I presume), but only one The Ghoul.
Ghoulishness does not do great things for your skin. One of the most noticeable things about The Ghoul is that he does not have a nose, some bridge and the cavity there.
At some point after passing all of these posters, I started finding The Ghoul attractive.
He doesn't have a nose!
I have never played the game or watched the show, so anything I know about it now, I know because I looked it up later.
I had seen some things about women finding The Ghoul attractive.
This was coming up mainly in discussions about men going on about how shallow women are and we are only attracted to top tier men, so these poor betas or mids or whatevers don't have a chance. No, we can even be attracted to a man without a nose.
I hadn't reflected on it that much previously. I had figured that The Ghoul was a compelling character and I know that Walton Goggins is very charismatic. In fact, though I have never spent a lot of time on him, he has been mentioned in this blog three times, all of which noted his charisma. I never actually called him attractive, though, until now.
And he doesn't have a nose!
I don't mean to be shallow, but if we are talking physical attraction as opposed to getting to know a person, it just doesn't sound plausible.
Though I do remember people using the term "Goggins-sexual" after his Venus Van Dam character on Sons of Anarchy.
Also, my research has uncovered that one of the goals in the character design was to make him kind of sexy.
I guess there are levels where it does make sense, but I still find it a little embarrassing to be reduced to "Where is my fainting couch? I believe I have the vapors," for someone who does not have a nose. I'm too old for this crap!
Maybe I'm too hung up on looks.
For the record, I have previously seen Goggins in Cowboys & Aliens (not a good movie, but he made a strong impression), Ant-Man and the Wasp (a fun movie, and his role wasn't big, but it added to it), Big Bang Theory (not one of their best episodes, but okay), and The Unicorn (where he starred and was very likable, and I watched it because of him, but did not have this reaction).
I do not plan on watching Fallout. That's mainly because it seems very violent, and even if the violence is comic I don't really care for it.
But also, if I did watch it how would I keep my thoughts pure?
Related posts:
https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2013/01/it-boys-and-girls.html
https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2018/10/thoughts-on-ant-man-and-wasp.html
https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2019/09/fall-television-thoughts.html
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