Monthly Archives: January 2014
Please be aware that this is massive – bring some time if you want to read it (and it’s only the first part, lol).
Before the episode aired, there were teasers going around, one of them said that TSoT is a love letter to John Watson. Naturally, everyone, me included, assumed that this is a love letter from the show’s creators to John because he’s just as much an important person in a show where focus mostly rests on the titular main character Sherlock Holmes.
I don’t think anyone predicted that we could be wrong. This was a love letter to John Watson, all right. But not from the creators. It came right from said titular main character himself.
I wasn’t sure how to approach this review, but in the last one using headlines worked pretty well. This time though it won’t be about characters, but events. I hope it all makes sense. There might be repeats in there, but it is still the easiest way to do this review.
Continue readingAsk received and answered on Tumblr regarding SHERLOCK S3 & S4. Repost.
Hello there. I hope you’re not getting fed up with me coming to babble to you but… Well, I just feel like I should say that I’m scared for Sherlock s4. I have absolutely no idea where they’re taking this now. So Moriarty is back (or is he? we don’t actually even know…) and Mary is an assassin and alive with the baby. I thought the point of this show was Sherlock and John’s relationship. Their friendship. Now I don’t know. How’s John going to run off with Sherlock with a baby home?
Hello mythology, my old friend…
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And another answer to an ask I received following my post Defending John Watson. Reposted from my Tumblr.
drrjlng asked you:
January 13th 2014, 10:02:00 pm
Just wanted to thank you for your post about John. I really hope you are right about this, because I feel wierd about John’s lack of emotions towards Sherlock. John seems to usually put what he thinks is his duty first, so maybe he feels like he has now picked Mary, and has to stay with her. Also, he probably doesn’t have the courage to tell Sherlock how he really feels, maybe he doesn’t even accept his own feelings. “New” Sherlock seems to almost push John in the opposite direction… So sad.
Yesterday I received that question, and my answer, as usual, got a bit longer than intended. But once again I think this is universally relevant, thus repost here. The post referred to is Defending John Watson.
Anonymous asked you:
January 13th 2014, 6:56:00 pm
Ok girl, I agree so much with your post about John and it hurts me because even if I think it’s true, I still feel like that, in 2014, people aren’t ready yet for m/m explicit relation in TV show and that all we can dream of is subtext.
Reposted from my Tumblr
– Please be aware that this is very incomplete. I didn’t want to go into that ep before I’m not done with my review/meta on TSoT. But I seeing all those posts on HLV, I had to write something. It misses a lot, but rest assured, even if that was included, I’d still come to the same conclusion. –
Suddenly, after the first enthusiasm had died down, my dash seemed to be full of people posting disappointed opinions, metas and analyses. And many speak of one central issue: John Watson and his behavior throughout the season.
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Reposted from my Tumblr.
Sherlock SPOILER for His Last Vow under the cut.
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Because this speech is so beautiful that you can’t have it often enough in written form, to read it again and again, here is Sherlock’s (core) wedding speech, written by the incredibly talented Steven Moffat. Don’t say that often, but – bless him for these perfect words.
In addition, you also find Sherlock’s vow below.
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Entry to be found here; reposted from my Tumblr.
Sorry. I can’t do it any more. I was going to attempt to mimic John’s style of writing for an entire blog post but life’s too short. And I say that as someone who died over two years ago.
I started reading this blog post and squealed with happiness and laughed. Then I read on and was reduced to a simple smile. And before I had finished even that had died.
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The new year starts with a rather unspectacular episode, so a slow start into 2014 for Mentalistas. Not that I am complaining 😉
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