oxfordtweed | SHERLOCK FANBOY SQUEE POST

I'll start off by saying that I loved it. It felt like a love letter to fandom. Very little of both my own and accepted fanon got Jossed, which makes me a very happy puppy. And the bit that dig get Jossed, well... Who the fuck would have seen that? Moriarty gets a phone call and gets angry and stops off? Who called that? No-one. It's almost like Moffat trawled through fandom to see what everyone thought would happen so that he'd know what NOT to do. I'm convinced he's watching the fandom after this episode. Because he's such a fucking troll.

I only have one gripe. Well, two. One's a technical gripe, though.

But the big one was the same gripe I had for the Ritchie Holmes movie. Why did Irene Adler need to be working with Moriarty? I mean, yeah, consulting criminal and all that, but no. The thing that made her awesome was that she bested Holmes all on her own.

The bits that were taken straight out of canon were glorious, and Moffat did update it wonderfully. Sherlock saying that he hoped she didn't have a baby in the safe had me dying. Seriously, anyone who writes him as a humourless dick has it completely wrong. He's just a regular dick (seriously, what he did to Molly at the Christmas party was just painful. I wanted to slap him for that. Then again, I do so adore Molly).

And, OMG all the Mycroft in this episode. I love Mycroft and I love his interactions with Sherlock. And the reactions of everyone when he told Mrs Hudson to shut up, oh god. I nearly died.

And that summer Sherlock wanted to be a pirate; oh, what a summer. I can just see him, seventeen years old with an old Kalashnikov and a rapier, trying to steal his uncle's yacht. And his uncle was just bored enough to go along with it. I need fanart of this. I may need to draw this, actually.

Basically, I loved it. Except for those end bits with Irene. And the lack of Godfrey Norton. I really wanted to see Godfrey Norton.

Oh, yes. And someone please teach Benedict Cumberbatch how to scrape the violin strings in time with the music he's not playing. That's my other gripe, because things like that throw me right out of the show. At least in TGG, he got away with not being able to play by just abusing the violin. Though, I did love how heavily it featured this time. He even composed.

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I'm convinced he's watching the fandom after this episode. Because he's such a fucking troll.

Oh, he totally, totally is. I knew he was going to find a way to cheat and troll us with that. There was just no other way to do it after a year and a half of elaborate theorizing from the entire internet.

Also you are the second person on my flist(s) to complain about BC's violin-fail. The other person is a musicologist, so you're in good company.

Oh god, his violin fail was terrible. Nothing about what he was doing was right, and it made me want to scream.

Actually, I think I did scream the first time I watched it. It was that bad.

You moaned quite a lot. It was positively pornographic. I don't really recall any screaming though.

I watched it last night (me? watching something immediately? NEW YEAR'S MIRACLE) and was squeeing the whole time.

I was also side-eyeing Irene's involvement with Moriarty, but oh well.

There were so so SO many lines that I wanted to share with people, but no one would have understood it. Bah. (I loved Sherlock telling Mycroft to get off his sheet.)

I know it bugged some people, but Sherlock and Mycroft taking cracks at one another's sexuality cracked me up. Especially when Sherlock called Mycroft a queen. Such children.

So new headcanon! Mycroft is gay and takes his boys to a saucy little place called the Diogenes Club. Sherlock is demisexual and always thought he was gay, but now Irene has done his head in. John is still trying to deny that he's gagging for Sherlock, but he'd come around in a flash if Sherlock gave him the slightest hint.

(well, that last isn't exactly NEW headcanon.)

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MOFFAT!

Did you notice, also, that Mycroft's ring/s have changed? Before, in series 1, he was just wearing the rings Gatiss always wears. Gone are those, now replaced with a single, larger gold ring on his right hand. Has something changed for his character over the last year, or did they simply not think anyone would notice the last time around?

I can just see him, seventeen years old with an old Kalashnikov and a rapier, trying to steal his uncle's yacht. And his uncle was just bored enough to go along with it. I need fanart of this. I may need to draw this, actually.

This is 100% beautiful and needs to happen immediately. :D

Mycroft will be tied to a chair and looking most annoyed indeed. XD

Of fucking course he will. :D

"Sherlock, I do not negotiate with terrorists."

*takes off his bandanna and gags Mycroft with it.*

"There. Now you don't have to."

Urgh, the music dubbing was horrible. They should have been timing him at least so the bow movements were in sync. :/ And some of the editing really put me off as well - the continuity of some cuts were incorrectly timed to the point where it was noticeable. Did they change editor?

Apart from that and some minor gripes I have with Irene (which may or may not be resolved upon second viewing), and the editing issues, the episode was really, really good. The frozen field scene was probably my favourite - slightly trippy, but beautifully done. And it also appears that I ship Lestrade/Molly now.

They might have done, actually. That said, they certainly got bold with the camera work, didn't they? I love the asymmetry in a lot of the shots, and the framing was just beautiful. Especially with the Holmes boys at the hospital. Wow.

The field scenes were gorgeous, too. Sherlock's whole drug trip was great, too.

And oh god, the Danger Night. He's slipped sometime between TGG and now, clearly. And John and Mrs H searching the flat for his stash. Oh man, oh man.

The framing of the shots are lovely, but I do miss the Tilt-Shift effect they had on some of their shots from the first season. Still, it's a good change - keeps the episode beautiful in many different ways.

When and why Sherlock fell off the wagon would also be fascinating to explore. The hospital scene broke my heart and then the stash search stomped on it to make it shatter even more. :(

As Sherlock is collapsing, I noticed that Sherlock, despite everything (and knowing he's slipping away quickly) still tries to stay conscious and get back on his feet. A good bit of character study right there.

OH! I just realised. Irene is British in this. Interesting change, although she is clearly associated with Americans, and may even possibly be American, but faking her accent.

Oh man, I'd love to know the story behind him falling off the wagon.

And I did notice that about her as well, and had no idea what to make of it.

I loved it. I expect someone will ruin it for me in the next few weeks but I'll just try to ignore it.

I can't say I was terribly attached to Irene (and can't help thinking if it had been her falling for him after he whipped her there would have been a massive outcry), but the part where she changed his ringtone was hillious.

I hadn't actually twigged that she was working for Moriarty, and I don't even remember the hospital scene... I think I need to pay more attention. Or, you know, watch it again at some point on my actual television rather than having to watch it over the internet on a screen covered in other windows.

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