SHERLOCK 201

[llivla]

Screw you Moffat, THIS is how your episode really ended.

Goodbye, Irene by marysutherland
http://archiveofourown.org/works/310663
http://marysutherland.livejournal.com/49914.html

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The Phony War by mary sutherland
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Comments

[takarai_karin]

Oh.

Oh, that's unfortunate :( I'm not going to ask for more detail yet, as I don't want to spoil myself too much, but that looks like an interesting article *bookmarks for later*

[llivla]

I'm sorry, I edited the entry so it wasn't so spoilery.

The Sherlock/John bromance was in A+ form though? And Mycroft/Sherlock and Lestrade/Sherlock dynamics were similarly on point.

[takarai_karin]

Nah, it's fine. I know I'd probably get references for Sherlock if I'm checking the flist :3

Yeah, the good thing about Moffat is knows his way around slashy overtones, unfortunately not so much with the writing female characters. (Mrs Hudson is the awesomest though, I agree ♥)

[llivla]

Still I really should have double-checked, that sort of thing drives me nuts!

Which sort of makes it all the more frustrating: Moffat you've only ONE important female basically in this entire series how do you mess that up along with Moffat you've had over a year to work out this character who bested Sherlock Holmes and this is how you did it? (Mrs Hudson was my hero. I loved how hilariously offended SHERLOCK was when Mycroft yelled at her. If Sherlock is reprimanding your manners, TOO FAR BRO, TOO FAR. I'm now extremely interested in how her character's going to go. I mean, since she's "too old" Moffat can't possibly objectify her right? Right?)

[llyse]

YESSSSSSSS this is what I needed to make the episode complete.

[llivla]

&hearts I love marysutherland updating Adler's operatic background to being an actress. Brilliant!

[nsilverwolf]

Excellent coda piece...thanks for the rec! I'm not sure I'm as up in arms about Moffat's writing at least in this instance. As a Dr. Who fan I do think he has this tendency to fall into horribly done female tropes very often but here (while it's not excusable) there is some strange level of leeway I'm willing to give. Maybe it's the hopeless romantic in me or the fact that Moffat is quite willing to explore the idea of agape with this iteration of Sherlock rather than not

[llivla]

The actors were just so intense and brilliant in their chemistry I could almost rewrite what was coming out of their mouths and replace it with something that made more sense. I keep repeating to myself that it's okay to be a problem of problematic things. SPN supposedly conditioned me for this, so Sherlock hurting me caught me really off guard. I suppose it's also that while The Blind Banker was offensive, I very, very much loved Soo Lin and was devastated when she died. So I was expecting so much more from a female who would actually have a plotline than be a plotdevice