BBC Sherlock

[violsva]

This is not actually a review, as I'm too sleep deprived to say anything non-sweary. We saw the first episode the other day, and then three episodes in a row last night, which was a bad idea. Not actually in a row, there was Doctor Who in between. So this is an overdose, with the usual unpleasant side effects. After a couple days I will have assimilated it and might like it better.

But I just got more caffeinated than I've ever been, which isn't actually saying much, and wrote 1500 words on my own gender-swapped race-swapped modern AU (which has been around since before I knew anything about the episode plots), thank you very much, which passes the Bechdel test and won't pass the reverse Bechdel test if I can help it, and will hopefully be at least a little less faily on race issues because honestly the only way to be worse than S1E2 on race issues is to deliberately try and then call in a couple consultants to make sure.

And can we have a female character (other than maybe Mrs. Hudson) who isn't defined by her sexuality, immediately, at her first appearance? One? FFS.

And that's just the Issues. There's also the way you can poke the plots anywhere and they tear apart like wet tissue paper.

Anyway. I will watch the rest, but I'm glad I didn't pay for it, though of course I acquired it through Perfectly Legal Means. (That link goes to TVTropes. Don't click on it.)

So, I guess that was a review. The internet: not just for porn, it's for rants. And cat photos. I'm going to go look at some. I really dislike being angry.

Comments

[enemyofperfect]

Oh, Sherlock. I fell recklessly, unreasonably in love with the first episode, with the result that nothing since has had any chance, really, of measuring up -- but it certainly didn't help that it was immediately followed by "The Blind Banker".

I watched it and I wondered, can that possibly have been as awful as it seemed to be? Yes, self; yes, in fact, it could.

The AU sounds exceptionally lovely.

[violsva]

I fell recklessly, unreasonably in love with the first episode, with the result that nothing since has had any chance, really, of measuring up

Yes, that's exactly what happened.

And then after The Blind Baker knumpify and I decided to watch the next to give it a chance to redeem itself, and then that one ended with a horrific cliffhanger, so we watched the Irene Adler episode, which was another mistake. And by then it was four in the morning. No common sense.