Is it weird that, as hard as I ship Ben/Polly (and I ship them really damn hard), they're actually one of the ships that I'd be most interested in seeing as specifically poly (as opposed to an OT3)? I mean, I love them just as they are, don't get me wrong, it's not that I'd want them to break up or anything, but...I always feel like it'd be difficult for them, to go back to any kind of normal or traditional life - Polly's a free spirit anyway, and because Ben returned the same day he left he still has to ship out if he doesn't want a reprimand, so after spending this really intense year together they already have to seperatw, and then even once he's done his duty to the navy I can't see them settling down and having an ordinary domestic life. I've planned out fics before where they go back to check up on Dodo once they get home, and upon finding her still a bit fragile, try to take care of her and eventually make her part of their family; or Polly meets Benton while she's living through the future that she already travelled to and serves as a direction for him once he leaves UNIT, and once Ben meets him he finds Benton provides a kind of stability and familiarity that Polly isn't quite able to give him, or...

...yeah, that kind of thing. For some reason I love the idea of them having another person in there to kind of even out their two personalities. But without that third person, I always imagined Polly deciding that they were going to jet off to Paris or Berlin or New York, and Ben putting up a token protest but coming along because, well, he's come to like the adventure too.

Oh, yeah, I wasn't really familiar with Penelope Cruz at all until I saw her in Volver, and she was amazing in that - just so perfect for the strange, off-kilter atmosphere that Almodovar's movies can create. And I think she has been getting much better film roles that let her show off, but I'm glad she was also in something fun like a Pirates movie.