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[neadods]

I want to clear out the linkdump before I head off to ChicagoTARDIS.

The one non-Sherlock link: an absolutely hilarious take Oswin Oswald and that infamous Katy Manning nudie shot with the dalek casing.

Teaspoon :: The Completely True and Canon Story of How Oswin Oswald Seduced Jo Grant, Or Jo Seduced Her, Or Something by Daystar Searcher
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=48082


The title pretty much says it all. I've now see Elementary and with the exception of a single episode, I'm not impressed: Why 'Elementary' Fails Sherlock Holmes Fandom | Inside Blip
http://insideblip.com/node/955/why-elementary-fails-sherlock-holmes-fandom.html
But in depriving Joan of Watson's military background, the show has undermined the sort of grace-under-fire composure needed to deal with a personality like Sherlock Holmes. The characterization compounds this lack by presenting a doctor who has essentially lost her nerve for practicing medicine following a patient's death.

The title says it all here, too. Inadvertent canon!smut: The Top 10 Suggestive Lines from the Sherlock... | Sherlock. Everywhere.
http://ihearofsherlock.tumblr.com/post/34878600228/the-top-10-suggestive-lines-from-the-sherlock

Anyone speak Latvian?
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/35116442683/serloks-holmss-while-browsing-youtube-i

Article about the Elementary set
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/35172724620/jlmillersource-i-added-scans-from-the-last

Interview with Loo Brealey: Sherlock's Molly: the original Cumberbitch - London Life - Life & Style - London Evening Standard
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/sherlocks-molly-the-original-cumberbitch-8293476.html

Brad is a LOT more unimpressed with Elementary than I am: Sherlock Peoria: The hour of standing up for Sherlock is at hand.
http://sherlockpeoria.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-hour-of-standing-up-for-sherlock-is.html

Fellow Tin Boxer has an article on: “Sherlock Holmes in Washington” « Sherlock DC
http://sherlockdc.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/guest-post-jaime-mahoney-on-sherlock-holmes-in-washington/

POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT! Someone found all three of the keywords for Sherlock S3 on the same page in one story. (It's been on the fannish shortlist of potentials for Sherlock to remake, too.)
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/35326101835/lolly-tayy-ok-so-to-bide-my-time-before-the

Theory that we've already met Sebastian Moran in Sherlock. (Y'all who keep wondering why that name comes up, go read The Empty House.)
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/35554979494/mid0nz-this-is-sebastian-moran-the-only-thing

Just what it says on the tin: Martin Freeman, in: "That guy who just wanted a cup of tea."
http://shaddicted.tumblr.com/post/35636646601/martin-freeman-in-that-guy-who-just-wanted-a-cup-of

Partial report on: An Afternoon with Mark Gatiss, 11 November 2012
http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/47265.html

Nice psychological theory on the grave scene in FALL:
http://bennyslegs.tumblr.com/post/35652425184/at-sherlocks-grave-before-finally-walking
“John’s quick-turn is how a lower ranking officer would leave the presence of a higher one after being dismissed. The whole time, consciously or unconsciously, John has viewed Sherlock as his superior officer, someone he needs to trust and take orders from in order to make their friendship/crime solving work.”

The one Sherlock fic. I can't say I liked this bit of Godlock Johnlock as much as it earwormed me. What is the literary equivalent of earworming, eyeworming? Ew, that sounds disgusting. Anyway, it haunted me enough to dig it back up for a reread, so I'm passing it on: He Could Only Guess at the Sounds From the Old Books. John/Sherlock, NC-17.
http://berlynnsherlock.livejournal.com/18244.html

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

"But in depriving Joan of Watson's military background, the show has undermined the sort of grace-under-fire composure needed to deal with a personality like Sherlock Holmes."

Eh. With a line like that, I wonder what show the author is watching. With a lack of military background, she may not have one part of a past on her resume that may or may not give a person grace-under-fire composure, but Joan Watson as shown, onscreen, several times an episode, is almost unrufflable in the face of Sherlock's antics. She is, in my estimation, a lot more cool and composed than, for example, Freeman's Watson, in terms of onscreen character actions.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Too cool in some cases - IMO, when Sherlock is acting crazy, he needs to be reacted to as his being crazed. Joan, on the other hand is obviously expecting childishness because that's what she gets out of her Holmes, moreso than BBC's or even the Ritchie Sherlock.

My complaint with Joan not being a soldier is that soldier Watson lost his life's work through no fault of his own, while Joan is being described more and more by her show and herself as having screwed up and lost her confidence in a wave of guilt. I don't find that to be a particularly feminist reason for the female Watson's raisin d'être, and would have found a wounded army medic to be a much stronger character.