The Official Tom Welling Thread

[Serene]

Hah! And Pat comes through again. up:

I'm surprised you didn't put a black gothic-themed background behind him.. Would have accented those fangs nicely.

 

[triplet]

Beautiful!

Hey, my home pc is still broke so you know I'm desperate when I setup my pocket pc to hook up to the web!



Do you even want to know how long it took me to type thiis?

 

[Serene]

I unfortunately was staring at his eyes, trying to decide what color they were (all of them I eventually decided, with blue and green being dominant, as we all know)

I saw this and remembered what you wrote about his eyes in person. I never noticed the yellow before..

 

[Lara]

Who needs a manip of Tom as a vamp? He's already got the fangs.
(I think his little fangs are very sexy)

That's what was so great about it they left his fangs. It was more the background and they way he and Chloe were dressed it was very romantic/gothic. I went to look for it but I guess it's gone.

 

[rumpuso]

Geezus that man gives me naughty thoughts.

 

[AgentPat]

Geezus that man gives me naughty thoughts.

LOL!

You and me both, Rump, you and me both. Always.

 

[triplet]

I saw this and remembered what you wrote about his eyes in person. I never noticed the yellow before..

They're not quite as striking as Tom's eyes but my hubby also has some yellow in his eyes, they're beautiful... It's one reason why I think I was attracted to him from the get go. I love beautiful eyes.

My son has the most gorgeous sky blue eyes, he's in middle school and is perplexed why all of a sudden girls like talking to him.

It's his wonderful baby blues. I just know it.

Back on topic: Tom's eyes are stunning.

I can understand why Melly was mesmerized by them.

 

[AgentPat]

Day-um!

 

[triplet]

Day-um!

Day-um! Is right....

 

[rumpuso]

Day-um!

Holy Mother of God!

 

[AgentPat]

Holy Mother of God!

LOL! Yeah. Curled my toes too.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Do you guys find that stubble on his face attractive? (hmm maybe thats a stupid question, considering he could have poo on his face and you guys would find it hot )

Seriously though, I just dont get the scruff thing in the promotional pictures of him? He doesnt have it in the show...

 

[triplet]

Do you guys find that stubble on his face attractive?

That is a stupid question.

(hmm maybe thats a stupid question, considering he could have poo on his face and you guys would find it hot )

Mmmm.... not so much, if it was obviously poo that is. A little smudge of dirt here and there can actually be quite attractive, however.

As my daughter said (wise for her years at 10): "Boys are just cuter when their faces are dirty."

Seriously though, I just dont get the scruff thing in the promotional pictures of him? He doesnt have it in the show...

I don't know why either, doesn't really make sense, but I'm not complaining!

 

[Serene]

Day-um!

Isn't that the billboard pic? Where did you find it?

I repeat..

 

[AgentPat]

Does anyone watch Buffy

I *tried* to watch the show. I *tried* to like it. It made me groan - in a bad way. I know a lot of people liked it - and still do - but I can't stand the darn thing. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

I just finished the whole series on DVD and I found Spike incredibly hot...

Bleeeeech. Sorry, didn't do a thing for me. None of them did. I found DB overstuffed (literally) and the bleach blonde spiky hair thang just isn't my cup-o-Joe. But don't listen to me. I'm a *wicked* tough critic and re-heeeely hard to please when it comes to male beauty and what I find attractive, so pay me no heed. It does bring up an interesting corollary though, especially since the recent discussion in this thread touched on TW's "fangs" and him playing a vampire. (LOL!)

We've discussed various ideas for roles, but I confess vampire never came up in my head as a consideration. Irrespective of his atypical set of chompers, the more I think about this - and look at various photos and screen caps - the more I think he'd be PERFECT. The funniest part about that? The screen caps that help the imagination along the best are the ones where he's either playing Clark on RedK (or other OOC situations) or when he's being very Supermanly. LOL! Whoda thunk? I'll post some examples later on tonight, but I tell ya, it's a hoot!

Do you guys find that stubble on his face attractive?

You're kidding, right? That's like me asking you if you find women's boobs attractive.

If you're looking for actual reasoning, I'm not sure I can put it into words. Tailored stubble "decorates" a man's face like make-up does for women, and it contributes to that strong, rugged look some women find attractive in the opposite sex. Look at action heroes in films today. How many of 'em are perfectly clean-shaven compared to the 3-day stubble look?

Seriously though, I just don’t get the scruff thing in the promotional pictures of him? He doesn’t have it in the show...

I think you just answered your own question. On the show, he's playing a character made up to look like a teenager (albeit not so successfully these days.) But when he actually *looks* his real age, he's even more attractive (IMHO.)

Why do you think The WB is using those promos? They're not pimping SV anymore by selling "Clark," otherwise he'd be clean shaven, dressed in plaid or a T-shirt and have a barn scene in the background (see 2nd season promo photos of the cast.) Clearly, that promo photo is selling TW, just like that HUMONGOUS billboard photo posted here a few days ago.

It'll be interesting to see what next season's marketing spread looks like because whether by accident or intentional, I think Welling's popularity is skewing older with each successive season. His appeal isn't just isolated to teenaged girls anymore. I still laugh (not mockingly - it's just funny) at posts from men who feel the need to identify themselves first as being very heterosexual, and then ask about how to duplicate Welling's hair style, or something along those lines.

Isn't that the billboard pic? Where did you find it?

Hmm... not sure, but I scarfed the image from DTS. Those guys are usually on the ball with this sort of thing.

 

[KikiDee]

Isn't that the billboard pic? Where did you find it?

It's the promo pic from the wb website.

 

[Streaky the cat]

Hello, I'm long time lurker...

I have found this:

http://www.fametracker.com/2_stars_1_slot/welling_somerhalder.shtml

into this:

http://lost-forum.com/showthread.php?p=141570#post141570

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"Tom Welling vs. Ian Somerhalder
Battle of the Aging Girly-Boys


There are two things little girls love: boys who look like girls, and horses.

A psychiatrist might tell you there's not as big a difference between the two as you might think, but this is Fametracker, not Freudtracker, so we'll just observe that a little girl tends to get her first crush -- her first celebrity crush, anyway -- on a boy who isn't too intimidatingly masculine. Barely pubescent, even. Her idealized pretend boyfriend is determinedly smooth of cheek, long of lash, and waxed of chest. If she ever even gets to see enough of his chest to tell; the less she sees of his dangerously uncovered flesh, the better.

The problem for those who start out their careers as Non-Threatening Boys is that eventually, nature will assert itself, and your beard's gonna come in. When that happens, the teen-idol torch gets passed to a new generation of hairless WB stars, and you have to start having the kind of career where you appear in TV shows and movies watched by people who can vote. (And not just for American Idol.) This is the point at which Ian Somerhalder has arrived, and Tom Welling's going to be there very soon.

Welling and Somerhalder have followed parallel paths throughout their professional lives, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that they're hitting this career milestone together. Both started out as male models. Both did a few TV guest spots before landing on a WB drama (Somerhalder on Young Americans, Welling on Smallville). Neither has successfully made the jump to movie star yet (though Somerhalder's come closer, with supporting roles in such pretentious crapola as The Rules of Attraction and Life as a House; Welling only played one of the titular brood in last year's Cheaper by the Dozen).

Perhaps because the bloom is starting to fade from Tom Welling's rose (and because the show is on a slow decline), producers wisely attempted to bolster his appeal by adding Somerhalder as a recurring guest star last season. Somerhalder did his part to prop up the pretty as mysterious Kryptofreak (or was he?) Adam Knight; because of the character's murky backstory, his being named "Knight," and the DC Comics connection, many fans speculated that Somerhalder's character might turn out to be the teenaged Batman to Welling's teenaged Superman. (And hey, if the two of them just happened to get it on, I mean...well, the possibilities of superhero-on-superhero lovin' are largely unexplored.) (Heh heh. I said "explored." And "large.")

Anyway: maybe Adam Knight was going to end up the Dark Knight, and maybe he wasn't. We'll never know, because Somerhalder went and got himself cast on Lost, ABC's new breakout hit drama. It's not quite a grown-ass man role yet -- he has yet to take a leadership role and seems to be the second-youngest person on the island, after the Oz dude's son. But it's not a kid role either; he was seemingly not a dependent minor when he stepped onto the ill-fated plane. And besides, the longer they stay on the island, the dirtier and scruffier he's going to get. There's no hiding the secondary sex characteristics when your Gillette Mach 3 is floating somewhere in the ocean. Anyway: Somerhalder's Boone seems to be a an in-between stage in his life, just like Somerhalder. It's also a great role for those who enjoy seeing Somerhalder knitting his lovely brow, all perplexed at the unfathomable situation he's found himself in. He may not be the smartest or most capable man on the island, but he's certainly the prettiest.

Meanwhile, Tom Welling is still playing the same big dumb alien. So...good for him.

Advantage: Somerhalder, a.k.a. the one who isn't still on The WB."

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I hope see TW in more mature roles...

(please excuse my english!)

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

I dont get the point of that? I've never thought either Welling or Somerhalder ever looked "girly".... That article makes a number of flawed assumptions too. Smallville's ratings were pretty high last season when Sommerhalder came on the show. Even if they werent, what would bringing a no name actor like IS on the show do for ratings anyway?

yeah Welling's been the lead in a network TV show for what will be 5 seasons and has a budding movie career. Every show IS has been on has either been canned or his character was killed off after a few episodes, and I dont think the guys been in a movie since "Rules of Attraction". Some advantage he has?

 

[Streaky the cat]

He's gorgeous as a grown man!
It's sad to see him as a fake teenager with
a lot of makeup! (Each year it's looks more and more fake!)
It's hurting his career!!!

Most of people don't know him as a grown man.

If TW have to stay in SV, please let him
show us his real age!

(please excuse my english!)

 

[M.E.H.Z.E.B]

I *tried* to watch the show. I *tried* to like it. It made me groan - in a bad way. I know a lot of people liked it - and still do - but I can't stand the darn thing. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

oh yeah! i totally agree. i have a friend who is in love with the show, and only for his constant insistance did i watch that show for a month or so. at the end of the month, i couldnt stand it. the first two seasons of Angel was tolerable, but Buffy is just

 

[triplet]

I dont get the point of that? I've never thought either Welling or Somerhalder ever looked "girly".... That article makes a number of flawed assumptions too. Smallville's ratings were pretty high last season when Sommerhalder came on the show. Even if they werent, what would bringing a no name actor like IS on the show do for ratings anyway?

yeah Welling's been the lead in a network TV show for what will be 5 seasons and has a budding movie career. Every show IS has been on has either been canned or his character was killed off after a few episodes, and I dont think the guys been in a movie since "Rules of Attraction". Some advantage he has?

Yeah, and IS got killed off of Lost anyway... Why bring up that old article up now?

Is it to soothe the wounds that IS fans have over on that Lost forum to make them feel better.

IS is an ass anyway, graceless and totally without class. I'll never forgive him for bashing the show just because he wasn't happy with the direction his character took.

He deserved to killed off another show. Serves him right.

Tom will have a much longer and more fulfilling career because he can *gasp* actually act, unlike Somerhalder who just emotes.

 

[Lara]

I don't even now how to respond to that article, Other than I don't find either one girly. Leonardo Dicapro is girly. Now Orlando Bloom is being called girly. Do you have to be ugly or your girly? TW is a huge tank of a man with an angular face far from girly. Oh just boo hiss boo.

 

[triplet]

I don't even now how to respond to that article, Other than I don't find either one girly. Leonardo Dicapro is girly. Now Orlando Bloom is being called girly. Do you have to be ugly or your girly? TW is a huge tank of a man with an angular face far from girly. Oh just boo hiss boo.

Exactly.

Just because the first few seasons they made him up to make him look younger, he's "girly"...

He is a tank, unlike the very slim Somerhalder.

 

[Lara]

I *tried* to watch the show. I *tried* to like it. It made me groan - in a bad way. I know a lot of people liked it - and still do - but I can't stand the darn thing. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Bleeeeech. Sorry, didn't do a thing for me. None of them did. I found DB overstuffed (literally) and the bleach blonde spiky hair thang just isn't my cup-o-Joe. But don't listen to me. I'm a *wicked* tough critic and re-heeeely hard to please when it comes to male beauty and what I find attractive, so pay me no heed. It does bring up an interesting corollary though, especially since the recent discussion in this thread touched on TW's "fangs" and him playing a vampire. (LOL!)

I couldnt stand DB either but Spike was just a hell of alot of fun(not bad cheekbones either) It's one of those character not beauty things... and the first sex scene with him and Buffy my god.....Watching it for the first time during my Smallville addiction was interesting. You have Spike who is aggressively sexual evil/good verses a much more attractive man playing a fairly asexual role. It does make you wonder a role ilke that for TW would be like having Transference Clark all the time. Could you imagine ?

 

[Lara]

Guess what on tvguide channel close up they had the ten hottest guys on TV Tom landed at number 9. I didn't see it all but the rest of the guys I did see were on much bigger shows so congrats to Tom.