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

[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*