So, okay, about Sherlock
Jan. 11th, 2017 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseBecause political news right now? Today has been an emotional roller coaster for me. I've been listening to AM950 in the mornings because I couldn't take NPR's normalizing. AM950 has a new show on, the Bradcast. On it, they played clips of the judiciary committee's interview with Senator Sessions. I had to be impressed with both Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken. They asked questions no one else did--although they were both much more polite about it than I could have been. I considered calling their office to thank them, but I ended up being lazy and tweeting my thanks. (Amy Klobuchar saw it, because she followed me back.)
Then I watched Obama's farewell address and cried a lot.
Then social media gave me tidbits of Trump's press conference and I cried in a totally different way.
So, Sherlock... a much safer topic! Like I said in yesterday's post, I'm a sucker for drug addicts. I was pleased in early episodes when they made reference to Sherlock's addiction and am always happy when that storyline makes a reoccurrence. Shawn hated it. She hates manic, distracted Sherlock and found a lot of all that unnecessarily silly. I can see her point, but am blinded by my love for stories about druggies.
I was really, really pleased that John finally said that Mary sacrificed herself and I LOVED that Sherlock's guilt never wavered, as if he'd been aware all along that for him, the real issue was that, by exchanging her life for his, she'd conferred a price on his life he felt inadequate to repay. I liked that A LOT. Good character moment, and much more in keeping with the general tenor of Sherlock, IMHO.
The episode was also very 'shippy' as the kids say. I'm a funny shipper. My personal take on the question of JohnLock is that Holmes is asexual, but gay (or pan) romantic. John is... I guess I don't care what John is. He's at least perfunctorily straight, and I'm okay with that. I do think he's fond of Sherlock, but I'm super okay with them never coupling-up, as it were. I kind of like the dynamic in which everyone kind of figures out through whatever versions of gaydar they possess that Sherlock is gay/pan-romantic and so just kind of assume that John is his partner, while John is both clueless and/or vaguely affronted.
I think we see this on display in this particularly episode. In her tape, Mary overtly says to Holmes that John is "the man you and I love." No one disputes that. John meanwhile seems vaguely uneasy with the kind of affection that would allow Sherlock to put himself into real risk in order to 'save' John.
Also I think we see clues of Sherlock's asexuality in that he's still fluttering about with the domenatrix but only as 'sexts.'
So, for this fan, the episode satisfied a lot of things.
Then I watched Obama's farewell address and cried a lot.
Then social media gave me tidbits of Trump's press conference and I cried in a totally different way.
So, Sherlock... a much safer topic! Like I said in yesterday's post, I'm a sucker for drug addicts. I was pleased in early episodes when they made reference to Sherlock's addiction and am always happy when that storyline makes a reoccurrence. Shawn hated it. She hates manic, distracted Sherlock and found a lot of all that unnecessarily silly. I can see her point, but am blinded by my love for stories about druggies.
I was really, really pleased that John finally said that Mary sacrificed herself and I LOVED that Sherlock's guilt never wavered, as if he'd been aware all along that for him, the real issue was that, by exchanging her life for his, she'd conferred a price on his life he felt inadequate to repay. I liked that A LOT. Good character moment, and much more in keeping with the general tenor of Sherlock, IMHO.
The episode was also very 'shippy' as the kids say. I'm a funny shipper. My personal take on the question of JohnLock is that Holmes is asexual, but gay (or pan) romantic. John is... I guess I don't care what John is. He's at least perfunctorily straight, and I'm okay with that. I do think he's fond of Sherlock, but I'm super okay with them never coupling-up, as it were. I kind of like the dynamic in which everyone kind of figures out through whatever versions of gaydar they possess that Sherlock is gay/pan-romantic and so just kind of assume that John is his partner, while John is both clueless and/or vaguely affronted.
I think we see this on display in this particularly episode. In her tape, Mary overtly says to Holmes that John is "the man you and I love." No one disputes that. John meanwhile seems vaguely uneasy with the kind of affection that would allow Sherlock to put himself into real risk in order to 'save' John.
Also I think we see clues of Sherlock's asexuality in that he's still fluttering about with the domenatrix but only as 'sexts.'
So, for this fan, the episode satisfied a lot of things.