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

[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?