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It's All About The Kiss

The Jen half of Ashleigh Raine: I’m a sucker for a kiss. Whether it’s the first kiss in a new relationship, or the millionth kiss between soul mates who’ve been together for a lifetime or more, kisses are beautiful. My heart beats faster, my hands shake, and I get a little weak in the knees just thinking about that perfect touch of lips to lips. I think that’s one of the reasons why I love reading—and writing—romances. I get to experience the joy of kissing over and over again.

My husband and son both tease me because when I see a kiss on a TV show or in a movie that blows me away, I’ll watch it over and over and over again. It’s emotional porn to me. :) When two people get so involved in each other that the rest of the world disappears around them, that their passion sears the screen, I can’t turn away. Here are some of my favorite kiss moments in recent TV history.

1) Veronica and Logan from Veronica Mars; Season One; Episode 18; “Weapons of Class Destruction”. These two characters went from being enemies to sooo much more over the course of one season. Their first kiss starts as a simple thank you, but quickly evolves into one of the most passionate kisses I’ve ever seen on television.

2) Buffy and Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Season Six; Episode Seven; “Once More With Feeling”. I have a “thing” for enemies turned lovers. This kiss, coming at the end of one of my favorite episodes of Buffy ever, sealed the deal for me on their relationship. “I touch the fire and it freezes me…” “I died so many years ago…” [sigh]

3) Captain Jack and Captain John from Torchwood; Season Two; Episode One; “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”. Oh my, what to say about this kiss. It’s hot. It’s sexy. It’s so damn passionate I swear I can hear their teeth clicking together as they each fight the other for dominance. And then they break apart and the fight continues, this time with fists flying. [fans self] Wow, wow, wow… If this show hadn’t already won me over as a fan for life, this kiss would’ve done it.

The Lisa half of Ashleigh Raine: And this is why Jen and I work so well together… She loves the kissing moments, the passionate connection between two people. I do, too, but I’m not obsessed like she is! :) I like the more subtle ones, too. Or the surprise ones.

Valley Girl: When Randy waits for Julie in the bathroom at the party, comes out of the shower and talks her into leaving with him. At the end of that little conversation with him fixated on convincing her and her liking the attention, but unsure because he’s so strange, he goes in for a quick, surprise kiss and then he’s outta there, outta the bathroom while she’s still got a doofy grin on her face. Yeah, that’s my kind of kiss.

I don’t need to be ignited with passion while the curtains catch fire (this is probably why Jen has shutters instead of curtains—all those sexy kiss replays!). I see the kiss as an expression, a tease, a promise of more to come, an incitement of passion, yes, but it doesn’t have to set the world on fire.

First Knight: The kiss that made Guinevere force Lancelot to promise to never kiss her again…unless she asks. What’s great about that one is that it was such a part of the story. I mean, the guy runs the freakin’ gauntlet with all the slashing swords and heavy things that could kill him because the prize was supposed to be a kiss from Guinevere. And when he’s standing in front of her and she’s not asking, he doesn’t take the liberty. Now that’s another powerful kiss and it says a ton about the two characters in having kissed and then not kissed.

I dunno. I dig that stuff. (Of course that kiss between Captain John and Captain Jack in Torchwood was really steamy especially since it turned into a big testosterone-dripping brawl between the two of them. That was most definitely hot.)

So what’s your favorite movie or TV show kiss? Or what’s your favorite type of kiss?