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oxfordtweed) wrote2012-01-02 06:13 pm
oxfordtweed) wrote2012-01-02 06:13 pm
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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.
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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Actually, I think I did scream the first time I watched it. It was that bad.
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