reckless nor hurt
So I watched the new Sherlock and I have Opinions! Shockingly.
-Sherlock as a series has a serious woman problem and I can't decide if the presence of an actual speaking female character has made it worse or better.
- I am just not touching the race stuff at the very end there. What even.
- TOO MANY PLOT TWISTS. Also, I like Sherlock because he is different from James Bond. I really much prefer the tense quiet mysteries to pistol whipping people and super weird secret service conspiracies. What. WHAT. That entire Bondair thing was just...burtonesque.
- That said! This episode was incredibly hilaritizing to me, as it has retroactively validates so many elements of my weird genderbend au which I should either post or stop talking about.
- But really, my major issue with this episode is that I cannot make heads nor tails of the emotional arc. I honest to god could not tell how far they wanted us to read into John's and Sherlock's ~feelings for each other. Even my boyfriend, who has never in his life engaged with slash fandom, was confused. But their failure to either drop the subtext or COMMIT made the whole emotional arc of the episode completely incomprehensible to me. I mean, if you wanted to make serious television about the complex ways humans love and feel for one another --you know, the weird mess of emotions that come with close friendship and attraction and the multiple meanings of love, I would be down. But you can't gesture at it and then go NO HOMO and completely fail to deal with or resolve anything. YOU CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.
- That quotation from Mark Gatniss makes me want to punch him in his face.
- Seriously, I am so annoyed. DON'T PANDER TO ME, KID. One crack in the emotional arc and our blood boils in seconds!
- I feel like the moral of this story was something along the lines of: LOOK VAGINAS. No homo and also feminism!!! Ps: Blah blah something incomprehensible about Sherlock's heart and what do you mean John Watson?
- I have not read anyone's reactions, but I think I can safely say that it would not be a tragedy if Sherlock fandom burnt to the ground. I just have zero interest in anything Sherlock fandom has to say about Irene. That said, I felt she could have been better written! GOD I SOUND SO CONCERN TROLL-Y, but like, what are her motivations and desires and stuff? I hope we get more of her and her backstory and motivations in the rest of the season so that she becomes more human and more complex.
Man, this makes it sound like I hated it! I didn't. I was totally there for the first hour--then things went off the rails. THOUGH I deeply appreciate that this was renewed Tumblr's interest in Femlock. Seriously, my major interest in this show is and has always been the myriad genderbend AUs I make up in my head.
-Sherlock as a series has a serious woman problem and I can't decide if the presence of an actual speaking female character has made it worse or better.
- I am just not touching the race stuff at the very end there. What even.
- TOO MANY PLOT TWISTS. Also, I like Sherlock because he is different from James Bond. I really much prefer the tense quiet mysteries to pistol whipping people and super weird secret service conspiracies. What. WHAT. That entire Bondair thing was just...burtonesque.
- That said! This episode was incredibly hilaritizing to me, as it has retroactively validates so many elements of my weird genderbend au which I should either post or stop talking about.
- But really, my major issue with this episode is that I cannot make heads nor tails of the emotional arc. I honest to god could not tell how far they wanted us to read into John's and Sherlock's ~feelings for each other. Even my boyfriend, who has never in his life engaged with slash fandom, was confused. But their failure to either drop the subtext or COMMIT made the whole emotional arc of the episode completely incomprehensible to me. I mean, if you wanted to make serious television about the complex ways humans love and feel for one another --you know, the weird mess of emotions that come with close friendship and attraction and the multiple meanings of love, I would be down. But you can't gesture at it and then go NO HOMO and completely fail to deal with or resolve anything. YOU CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.
- That quotation from Mark Gatniss makes me want to punch him in his face.
- Seriously, I am so annoyed. DON'T PANDER TO ME, KID. One crack in the emotional arc and our blood boils in seconds!
- I feel like the moral of this story was something along the lines of: LOOK VAGINAS. No homo and also feminism!!! Ps: Blah blah something incomprehensible about Sherlock's heart and what do you mean John Watson?
- I have not read anyone's reactions, but I think I can safely say that it would not be a tragedy if Sherlock fandom burnt to the ground. I just have zero interest in anything Sherlock fandom has to say about Irene. That said, I felt she could have been better written! GOD I SOUND SO CONCERN TROLL-Y, but like, what are her motivations and desires and stuff? I hope we get more of her and her backstory and motivations in the rest of the season so that she becomes more human and more complex.
Man, this makes it sound like I hated it! I didn't. I was totally there for the first hour--then things went off the rails. THOUGH I deeply appreciate that this was renewed Tumblr's interest in Femlock. Seriously, my major interest in this show is and has always been the myriad genderbend AUs I make up in my head.