confrontation with Zeller - foiled escape

i totally agree... though i might think garner and andrews come even closer because i'm willing to let you ladies fight over CP if i get james all to myself. i love them together, too.

the more i think about my need for a post-gazebo kiss from these two, i think the looks they give each other (when brigitta calls her 'mother'... here, and when they're singing at the festival) kinda make up for it just fine.

You may know that she often tells the story of how she and James Garner spent many, many hours kissing on that bed during the filming of AoE; she felt quite sophisticated and blase, until she got up and her knees buckled. One wonders how she would have felt had TSOM required such a scene from her and CP. One wishes for a controlled trial (or would that be an uncontrolled trial?)

Also: I find myself frequently writing about PDA for them because I'm interested in exploring the contrast between "he's so hot" and "he's so buttoned up." Like, yes, all for post-Gazebo kissing. But much exchange of smoldering looks too, when there are other people around.

one of my favorite writers, Emma, who never came over here, wrote that story last year in which M&G were sitting in the salon, surrounded by all these chaperones, who figure out that they are transgressing simply by exchanging smoldering looks, whereupon the chaperones break it up. Which I think is kind of ridiculous discpline to apply to a man in his 40s, but oh well, it was a cute scene.

funny if those Austrians thought that smoldering looks made babies. No wonder he had so many of 'em.

Me too.... And it will be a key part of my epilogue, (simply because I love it so much, and had to have it in my story somehow ).... it's basically where I end it... and got ideas from the "more kisses" thread I will go slightly AU just to have them kiss before the children comes home.... So there will be smoldering eyes AND kisses... *LOL* 


and yes it did get rather hot in here... 

Sigh. Me too.
I don't think I could quite bring myself to publish an explicit fanfic, but if I wrote one, I think it would definitely be about what is, er, behind that door.

the laendler alone is full of 'em. Double sigh.

Yes, please. With a big tub of ice in front of it.

Yeah, when I went to 'An Evening with Julie Andrews' (aka BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE - refer to my profile pic) she was asked 'which leading man is the best kisser. She didn't specifically say outright, but she did say James really had an impact while they were filming AoE

That first one---can't you just see him turning his head and kissing her neck? yum

One thing I like about these photos is that Maria is clearly different from the headache/moonbeam/girl she is when we first meet her. OF COURSE he is all brooding hotness. But I love the way she is so visibly different -- poised, relaxed, a little serious. When you think about the way she scurries out of that ballroom on their first meeting, it's all so yum. Like you said.

Beautiful, couldn't agree more. I love the whole notion of M's transformation as anyone who managed to make it through my honeymoon story will recall. I once considered writing a one-shot where her walk up the aisle is a metaphor for her transformation -- and there was something in there about the evolution of her wardrobe, too, from the gray dress to the mustard suit -- but the wedding doesn't work, because even at the beginning she already looks more poised and mature. She is just amazing, no doubt about that!

oh, quite agree. you mean it's kind of in-between? I guess I could have had her start up the aisle in her undergarments and put the dress on midway JK.

I'm of two minds about this. (No jokes about my sanity, please). I DO think that moment coming out of the house is HUGE -- I'm ambivalent about the way she says "hello" to them so calmly, compared to their frantic embrace upon her return to the Abbey. But even walking up the aisle - she moves slowly, and stately, and she looks a little serious.