What do you think about Build and Bible's chemistry, based on your qualifications for what makes actors have good intimacy? I don't remember exactly what they are, regrettably. I think there are four things that need to be there? Maybe three. Apologies.
Heh heh, no worries. There won't be a test.
The chemistry stuff is here.
Why VegasPete Won Top Couple (for me)
For me it comes down to 3 things:
emotional resonance (AKA empathy - heart) - face expression, eye contact
physical reactions (AKA sexual responses - body) - breath matching, lip softness, hand movements, body language & stiffness
sympathetic execution (AKA intellectual connection - mind) - dialogue delivery, interplay and push/pull or call and response
In other words, the audience needs to feel that the characters
like each emotionally
desire each other physically
are enjoying it (AKA understand each others needs intellectually)
I think VegasPete had very good all round chemistry, pretty much as good as Thailand can get. So not quite Taiwan level, but still excellent. I think with both of them they particularly excelled on their eye work. The longing gaze was excellent. So we got their emotional connection the most, which is SUPER important with a kink sequence and accounts for 90% of fan obsession with these two. We got the intellectual connection too, with the conversations and the books and everything. The physical stuff, for me, was just the tiniest bit off, but for that had to do with the kink aspect and just a touch of "oh these boy are def straight." Which I guess is a gaydar thing? I don't know. Honestly, this is micro quibble.
For me they were by far the best couple in every way in this series. I only really watched for them from the moment they came together until their final scene. I kinda forgot everyone else existed, they just blew the other couples away. Part of this was the drama of their story line but part of it is definitely superlative chemistry.
And all this even though they had a comparatively short screen time to develop their relationship which worked against them.
That said, I would have kept the edge of kink through to the end. (For me: Vegas should have sunk his fingernails into Pete's flesh, or caged his wrist/throat, in that last domestic cuddle scene there - just as a little reminder to Pete and us of what they really are to each other.) But that is a kinkster's quibble and I really cannot expect mainstream out of dungeon types to get kink as accurate and sexy as I want it.
All in all, they will probubly end up being one of my favorites of the year, even though I didn’t love the rest of the series. But that has happened to me before with mafia BL. I gave PitchBank my WinTeam award last year (the side couple I wish were the main couple) for Golden Blood.
VegasPete might get it this year. Although the year is only halfway through...
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