Having finished watching Sherlock, a few thoughts.

[dira]

1) IS IT TIME FOR MORE YET?

JESUS MOTHER OF FUCK THAT IS NOT A FUN CLIFFHANGER. I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY--BUT--DAMMIT--

2) Anyone who thinks Sherlock is genuinely and for real a sociopath is officially claiming to understand Sherlock better than Moriarty does, which I think is a mistake.

3) Okay, so Watson is the actual archetypal epitome of My Type of fictional character. But apparently now I also have a secondary crush on this Lestrade.

*facepalm*


Aaaand so after work today I checked out a copy of A Study in Scarlet and read just enough of it to catch some references in 1x03. ♥♥♥

Comments

[nestra]

Lestrade! Lestrade! You should totally write some Lestrade/Watson. Or Lestrade/Sherlock. Or, you know, put your hands together.

[dira]

Hmmmm, Lestrade/Watson. That would certainly be interesting.

Hmmmmmm...

[fox]

[dance]

I couldn't say to you before you'd seen it, OH MY GOD Sherlock falling to his knees and getting that bomb the hell off John and then HURLING it away, I just I mean I really asdhjsklg;flkgd;;lhf.

You know.

Also, what nestra said. :-)

[dira]

Keysmash is really the only way to say it.

With maybe a side of HIS LITTLE FACE. THEIR LITTLE FACES. <3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

[mlyn]

Lestraaaaaaaaaaade. I want more of him in fic. Much more. I'm with Nestra, I could see Lestrade/Watson although I started on Lestrade/Sherlock.

[dira]

Lestrade, Hamre, I'm beginning to think you have a type, too. ;)

*pauses to contemplate Lestrade and Hamre meeting for drinks and discussing their maddening consultants*

*giggles a lot*

*runs away*

[mlyn]

EVIL! *points*

Hamre would totally go to London for a police conference on personnel management or some such. Isakson and Donovan would get together and compare ways to be bitchy.

[dira]

See, exactly!

Meanwhile, Varg might actually get on okay with Watson. Watson could check him for signs of concussion syndrome, anyway. Sherlock would be rather impatient with him, but, ah well, more aquavit for Varg if Holmes doesn't want to sit and have a drink. ;)

[mlyn]

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[jamjar]

Not for a year! The BBC giveth, and then it holdeth it above your head and makes you dance for it for eleven months.

Many people feel that way, and some have even written fic about it

[dira]

*shakes tiny fist at the BBC*

And, oooh, Lestrade fic! Thanks for the link!

[sage]

I am so extremely fond of Lestrade. I might like him best of all of them. *g*

Re Holmes' claim to be a sociopath: YES. And also, I sort of took that as 1) sarcasm, 2) critique of the DSM-IV's general uselessness in diagnosing mental illness in strange/genius but functionally sane people, 3) Holmes being an ass to see what would happen/whether Watson would freak out, and 4) Holmes pulling Watson's pigtails because it's so damned cute.

I'm so glad you're revisiting the original canon! My ACD reread is nearly finished and while I like porn as much as the next fanperson, there isn't nearly enough fic out there that extends beyond PWP. I'm craving casefic, you know? *g*

[dira]

Yeah, I took Sherlock's off-hand claim as pretty much anything but an accurate self-diagnosis. Just. No.

My reading of ACD canon - or, well, A Study in Scarlet, which is as far as I've gotten now - is made slightly surreal by the fact that I've already read a fair amount of Katie Forsythe's fic, which interacts with book canon in complicated and sort of awesome ways. *g*

[davidklecha]

Amusingly, I'm rereading the whole canon, mostly on my Droid. I really must... acquire... these episodes.

[dira]

And to bring the whole thing full circle, I have just started ... acquiring ... the Jeremy Brett series. :)

[davidklecha]

Heh. I definitely prefer the earlier ones to the later, as Brett kind of plumped up in the 1990s and looked to be a very beefy Holmes. He presents the rail-thin version better in the first couple of series.

Also? A Study in Scarlet has a massive digression at the midpoint of the book, an oddity among the Holmes that I've read. Almost to the point that I thought some other book had gotten smooshed into my e-copy by mistake. Don't let that throw you when you read it.

[dira]

Yeah, some people over on the LJ post warned me about the surprise!Mormons and ACD's general state of fail in that direction, so I was braced for it. It really did seem like he just needed filler to get up to novel-ish length and that's the first thing that came to mind. *g*

[missmollyetc]

I like the earlier ones! Later on, Jeremy Brett's medical problems became a bit more prominent, and though he's still good, he's not at his best. Also, you'll have to choose between two Watsons.

[dira]

But--but I want ALL the Watsons. *g*

[missmollyetc]

Then you may have them! ::grins:: It's just, people seem to choose between them so often. I forget which series is when they make the switch, however.

[missmollyetc]

That was not a fun cliffhanger, but I hold out hope that the writers remember that they've canonically placed Holmes and Watson under 24-hour surveillance by Mycroft, and so they are never actually alone.

2) Anyone who thinks Sherlock is genuinely and for real a sociopath is officially claiming to understand Sherlock better than Moriarty does, which I think is a mistake.

I love you.

3) Okay, so Watson is the actual archetypal epitome of My Type of fictional character. But apparently now I also have a secondary crush on this Lestrade.

Watson really, really is. ::laughs:: Lestrade! I do enjoy him in this incarnation. On the whole, I like the point they all make that Watson and Lestrade, etc. aren't idiots, it's just that, well, Sherlock. ::shrugs::

[dira]

I really, really love that everyone gets to be competent on Sherlock, yeah. Sherlock even gave the lady in pink credit for being clever! And she was, too!

Also, seriously, not a sociopath. Weird and an asshole, yes, but not a sociopath.

[missmollyetc]

The pink lady WAS clever! And, as you know, I have a huge competence kink, which is, I believe, why I'm so attached to this. Everyone knows their jobs! They're just at different levels of ability! Also, I love how the first episode sets up John to be the Arbiter of What's Good for Sherlock.

Also, hell no, he isn't a sociopath. He's just utterly incapable of operating at less than Thrusters On Full, and is an ass (because, c'mon, can you imagine Sherlock in school? That kid got beat up.). I see it as half-protective coloring, and half-just his personality.

[spatz]

Heck no, Sherlock's not a sociopath. He *might* genuinely think he is (maybe), but I think Sherlock's only real area of incompetence is understanding his own emotions. And the new evidence of Watson will eventually force him to change his theory anyway.

If you've read A Study in Scarlet, have you also read Neil Gaiman's A Study in Emerald?

[dira]

In fact I read both "A Study in Emerald" and a bunch of Katie Forsythe's fic before reading A Study in Scarlet, which made reading the actual story a bit ... surreal. :)

[spatz]

Wow, no kidding. Did Study in Emerald work even without knowing the original?

[dira]

It did, I think. *g* I had a basic osmosis-knowledge of Holmes (and still have only an osmosis-knowledge of Lovecraft) but like a really good crossover fic writer, Neil made it work. :)

[spatz]

Neil is a badass crossover writer, true ;) My knowledge of Lovecraft is basically "there are Elder Gods that are unspeakable horrifying? And one of them is a terrifying tentacle monster with an unpronouncible name, so naturally people make plushies of him?" and I was blown away. I just can't understand why there isn't any fic! Or, like, three. On the entire internet. *pouts* Doesn't everyone want to read about Holmes and Watson leading the resistance against evil tentacle monsters from another dimension?