Sherlockian Link Salad
Nov. 21st, 2011 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadods"Fic rec" is the wrong phrase to use, as there is no fic although I'm mesmerized by Jupiter_ash's new werewolf AU. However, I wanted to clear out some of the links I was sitting on before I disappeared to ChicagoTARDIS and then NYC.
Just in time for the holiday season of your choice, Save Undershaw starts a shop
Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Gatiss standing in front of Speedys between takes. No spoilers and Gatiss isn't in costume. There's just something about this shot that charms me.
The Diogenes Club has an excellent essay regarding Holmes, Victoriana, and modernization called To hell with the crinoline: SHERLOCK and the Secret Weapon As much as I've adored Holmes since childhood, I confess I always had the niggling suspicion that his unique methods of deduction (or, to be semantically accurate, induction) could never work in the modern age. Victorian England was a place where class, economic and social differences were writ large for all to see, from customs of dress and deference, to the physical effects of various trades on their practitioners, to such fundamental distinctions as regional accent and mode of speech. Easy enough to believe that in the 19th century Sherlock Holmes could spot a military doctor by his bearing, a poor man by his hat lining, or a compositor by his thumb; how to make such minute observations in our time, when everyone wears blue jeans or mass-produced suits; when personal and professional mobility are, in the Western world at least, at levels undreamed of by Doyle; and when our ways of living, and making a living, tend to leave perceptible electronic traces on our hard drives and cell phones, but no such readily identifiable marks on our bodies?
And for a quick laugh after that, Darlock Holmes & Dalek Watson
Just in time for the holiday season of your choice, Save Undershaw starts a shop
Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Gatiss standing in front of Speedys between takes. No spoilers and Gatiss isn't in costume. There's just something about this shot that charms me.
The Diogenes Club has an excellent essay regarding Holmes, Victoriana, and modernization called To hell with the crinoline: SHERLOCK and the Secret Weapon As much as I've adored Holmes since childhood, I confess I always had the niggling suspicion that his unique methods of deduction (or, to be semantically accurate, induction) could never work in the modern age. Victorian England was a place where class, economic and social differences were writ large for all to see, from customs of dress and deference, to the physical effects of various trades on their practitioners, to such fundamental distinctions as regional accent and mode of speech. Easy enough to believe that in the 19th century Sherlock Holmes could spot a military doctor by his bearing, a poor man by his hat lining, or a compositor by his thumb; how to make such minute observations in our time, when everyone wears blue jeans or mass-produced suits; when personal and professional mobility are, in the Western world at least, at levels undreamed of by Doyle; and when our ways of living, and making a living, tend to leave perceptible electronic traces on our hard drives and cell phones, but no such readily identifiable marks on our bodies?
And for a quick laugh after that, Darlock Holmes & Dalek Watson
