Sherlock needs its own tag
Aug. 14th, 2010 03:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
renrenren3So it's 2am and I need to be really quick with this post and then go to sleep. Or else it'll be 4:30am like yesterday and then I won't wake up unless mum comes to tell me that lunch is ready. On the flip side, my "sleeping issues" have happily solved themselves, and once again I'm awake during the wrong half of the day. Too bad this morning I really needed to get out and do all those things I never get around to do, like getting a new bag since I'm still using the one with Hedwig's plushie attached to it. At least my sister got me some scrunchies today while she was out and I was snoring. Might be kindness towards her no-good elder sister, might be that I'd started stealing hers. It's not my fault. I swear, the things just keep disappearing. There's probably some scrunchie-eating monster under my bed. It's just, urgh, I'm sleepy in the morning. But I can't go to sleep. Too many things to catch up with. (On that note... Need to let uni friends know I'm still alive. Need to ask about exams. Need to text guy I give lessons to.)
BUT! I need to squee to someone and everyone has gone to sleep already (duh I wonder why?) and anyway I need to spread the love. THE SHERLOCK LOVE!
Yes, yes, I've been bad and downloaded the first episode. To my defence I'd so watch it if it ever aired in this country. If there's a god of tv shows, let it air in this country. I promise I won't complain about the dub. Much.
Anyway. This. Show. Is. AWESOME.
It just kept popping out on my flist and on deviantart and everyone mentioned it was AWESOME. And anyway it's a Sherlock Holmes adaptation and Holmes is AWESOME, so I was pretty much convinced that it'd be AWESOME. Which, by the way, it was. I was sold after they reached 221B Baker Street, though I held off with the squeeing until the end because, y'know, there was plenty of potential to get it wrong. Instead it was, well, AWESOME.
Modern adaptation and all that, I wasn't really convinced it'd work. Part of the charm of the stories is the atmosphere, Holmes is where my whole fascination with the 19th Century started, I wasn't sure I'd like an adaptation without the fog and the hansoms and the telegrams. I've just finished reading "His Last Bow" (that's the last collection of Holmes short stories) and it's set in 1900-1910. Pretty awful stuff compared to the rest - they've got telephones and in one of the stories the killed is an algae. (I can't decide which one is a worse idea.)
Anyway, I've always been a bit of a canon fanatic. Part of why I didn't like the 2009 movie maybe. I don't like having all sort of small details changed, for whichever reason.
But Sherlock, I don't know, Sherlock somehow worked for me. It's the equivalent of a modern AU in fic. I'm cool with it. It's already different starting with, so the small changes don't bother me. And many of the changes they did are clever, like Afghanistan and Watson's wound.
It helps that I like the actors.Holmes Sherlock has got cheekbones (which I'm kind of obsessed with, after Merlin) and he looks a lot more human than other Holmeses, while at the same time acting quirky and at times downright crazy. And Watson! I would have been happy with any interpretation that didn't have him act like a bumbling fool, actually, but... not spoiling it in case you can be persuaded to watch it, but... wow. (Actually I liked Jude Law's Watson too, for the same reason. Finally writers seem to have taken notice.) Can't wait to see what happens in the next two episodes. Oh, and Lestrade! I can't forget about the guy. Much better than the usual smug-bastard-eventually-proven-wrong-and-humiliated Lestrade. Yes, on the whole I think they looked less like caricatures and more like real people, which is a lot more that can be said for any adaptation of something that's over 100 years old.
Urgh, this was a long post. If you need any more reason to watch it, think of the slash potential. Apparently the writers didn't mean for it to have any subtext. Uh, yeeeah. I'll just watch the restaurant scene again, shall I? Or I can just look at the HoYay section on TvTropes and here it is in all its glory... (minus the awkward pauses of course)
John: You don't have a girlfriend, then?
Sherlock: Girlfriend? No. Not really my area.
John: Oh, right. Do you have a...boyfriend? Which is fine, by the way.
Sherlock: I know it's fine. *stares*
John: ...So you've got a boyfriend then.
Sherlock: No.
John: Right. Ok. You're unattatched. Just like me. Fine. Good.
Sherlock: John, erm, I think you should know that I consider myself married to my work, and while I'm flattered by your interest, I'm really not looking for any-
John: No. I'm not asking. No. I'm just saying, It's all fine.
Sherlock: Good. Thank you.
Yeah. No subtext. I'm glad that's cleared up.
For bonus points, uh, there are a lot of tie-in sites. The hidden messages are pretty much children's play, but whatever. It's nice when the marketing team makes the effort. (On that note... the case in the first episode was pretty straightforward even without remembering much of the original novel. But despite the "No, duh!" when Sherlock makes the final deduction, it's still pretty AWESOME.)
Mkay, that took me far longer than I meant to and it's 3am (shouldn't have opened TvTropes, really should have known better) but I felt I had to spread the love. Since the internet is where I find out about 95% good shows/movies/books/games, via reviews and stuff. (By the way. Inception, this country, release, when?)
Will post some caps and maybe the photos I took last year at 221B if I can find some decent ones while I sort the Austria photos. I took lots of photos of rain and waterfalls and rain and castles and rain. But mostly rain. And I'm really going to sleep now.
BUT! I need to squee to someone and everyone has gone to sleep already (duh I wonder why?) and anyway I need to spread the love. THE SHERLOCK LOVE!
Anyway. This. Show. Is. AWESOME.
It just kept popping out on my flist and on deviantart and everyone mentioned it was AWESOME. And anyway it's a Sherlock Holmes adaptation and Holmes is AWESOME, so I was pretty much convinced that it'd be AWESOME. Which, by the way, it was. I was sold after they reached 221B Baker Street, though I held off with the squeeing until the end because, y'know, there was plenty of potential to get it wrong. Instead it was, well, AWESOME.
Modern adaptation and all that, I wasn't really convinced it'd work. Part of the charm of the stories is the atmosphere, Holmes is where my whole fascination with the 19th Century started, I wasn't sure I'd like an adaptation without the fog and the hansoms and the telegrams. I've just finished reading "His Last Bow" (that's the last collection of Holmes short stories) and it's set in 1900-1910. Pretty awful stuff compared to the rest - they've got telephones and in one of the stories the killed is an algae. (I can't decide which one is a worse idea.)
Anyway, I've always been a bit of a canon fanatic. Part of why I didn't like the 2009 movie maybe. I don't like having all sort of small details changed, for whichever reason.
But Sherlock, I don't know, Sherlock somehow worked for me. It's the equivalent of a modern AU in fic. I'm cool with it. It's already different starting with, so the small changes don't bother me. And many of the changes they did are clever, like Afghanistan and Watson's wound.
It helps that I like the actors.
Urgh, this was a long post. If you need any more reason to watch it, think of the slash potential. Apparently the writers didn't mean for it to have any subtext. Uh, yeeeah. I'll just watch the restaurant scene again, shall I? Or I can just look at the HoYay section on TvTropes and here it is in all its glory... (minus the awkward pauses of course)
John: You don't have a girlfriend, then?
Sherlock: Girlfriend? No. Not really my area.
John: Oh, right. Do you have a...boyfriend? Which is fine, by the way.
Sherlock: I know it's fine. *stares*
John: ...So you've got a boyfriend then.
Sherlock: No.
John: Right. Ok. You're unattatched. Just like me. Fine. Good.
Sherlock: John, erm, I think you should know that I consider myself married to my work, and while I'm flattered by your interest, I'm really not looking for any-
John: No. I'm not asking. No. I'm just saying, It's all fine.
Sherlock: Good. Thank you.
Yeah. No subtext. I'm glad that's cleared up.
For bonus points, uh, there are a lot of tie-in sites. The hidden messages are pretty much children's play, but whatever. It's nice when the marketing team makes the effort. (On that note... the case in the first episode was pretty straightforward even without remembering much of the original novel. But despite the "No, duh!" when Sherlock makes the final deduction, it's still pretty AWESOME.)
Mkay, that took me far longer than I meant to and it's 3am (shouldn't have opened TvTropes, really should have known better) but I felt I had to spread the love. Since the internet is where I find out about 95% good shows/movies/books/games, via reviews and stuff. (By the way. Inception, this country, release, when?)
Will post some caps and maybe the photos I took last year at 221B if I can find some decent ones while I sort the Austria photos. I took lots of photos of rain and waterfalls and rain and castles and rain. But mostly rain. And I'm really going to sleep now.
