the one with EPIC SPOILERS SO MANY SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS and carrying cash
Okay so lets all remember back to whenever it was when Torchwood had that series of five episodes called Whatever It Was But I've Forgotten, and Ianto died? (Please Christ tell me that after all these years is not a spoiler. If it is a spoiler, I'm sorry). Well, I'm pretty sure I watched all the episodes up until the One Where Ianto Died and then I read spoilers (because I always do) and found out that he was going to die and promptly never watched the last few episodes.
Yes, I am that person who cannot deal with character death. After Sirius died in the Order of the Phoenix I refused to re-read it or even to pick up a Potter book for about six months. There's probably some wacky psycological thing going on here that explains why I can deal with Real Life Actual People Who I Know And Care About dying but not fictional characters. Look, I never said I was 100% sane. Just think of how boring that would be.
SO. The reason behind that exposition of my shameful fannish past is that now I have realised that unless you actually get a shot of a living Sherlock at the end of season 2 when he's supposedly dead, I cannot watch that episode. I would perhaps be able to watch it when season 3 comes out (whenever that'll be, damn you troll writers Moffat and Gatiss) because it'd minimise the whole "dead" part.
So basically, I am a crazy person who gets far too emotionally invested in television shows/books/etc etc and unless someone wants to truthfully tell me that there is LIVING SHERLOCK SHOT after/in the John at the gravesite scene, I just cannot watch the damned thing. For now at least.
In other news, WHAT NARRATIVE PURPOSE DOES SHERLOCK FAKING HIS DEATH SERVE? No, seriously, I want answers. Sometimes I wish I'd taken more writing/literature courses at times like these (I mean hell, what is an Arts degree for if not to uselessly pick appart tv shows). I just hope in the first episode of season 3 there's like, John working as a locum again and Sherlock goes in as a patient in some sort of lunatic disguise and then is all BAM I'M NOT DEAD, OR approaches him in the grave yard and scares the living hell out of him because that'd just be the least sensitive way to do it. As it is, logic dictates that John'll see glimpses of Sherlock around and hunt him down or something like that. But then logic would have dictated YOU DON'T FAKE KILL OFF A MAIN CHARACTER but you know. Stuff.
Oh holy Christ.
Also, apparently there is a large chance that I have not heard from Funding Source In UK because when I get to Their University they will THEN present me with a fat wad of cash, instead of sending a cheque out in advance. YES BECAUSE I WANT TO WALK AROUND CENTRAL LONDON WITH £1500 IN CASH ON MY PERSON. Oh UK banking system, why you so fail.
Okay, time for some self-defence lessons.