The Sherlock finale
You can tell by how late I am posting this how much I’m interested-yet-not-in-the-fandom. And yet: so many opinions! There'll be another post about "who you really are? it doesn't matter" and stories.
First off: I really enjoyed most of it. I totally get why those who enjoy Sherlock for the, er, Sherlock Holmes elements - solving mysteries - would ( Read more... )
First off: I really enjoyed most of it. I totally get why those who enjoy Sherlock for the, er, Sherlock Holmes elements - solving mysteries - would ( Read more... )
I love Gothic horror too and don't at all see it as being out of place in a Sherlock Holmes story: my favourite Conan Doyle story is The Hound of the Baskervilles, which is totally a Gothic horror pastiche, so).
Yep, exactly. There are a few other Holmes stories that are super Gothic to me, regardless of how they end in Holmes revealing the prosaic truth - pale widow in black veil shows up, family secrets etc etc.
I mean I do think this episode was a shift forward on the Gothic scale, because despite the very meta OTT opening sequence it wasn't pastiche but full-on Gothic. (As opposed to either the original Baskervilles or the Sherlock version.) But yeah, as you say, they're not limited to a particular format.
It definitely kept me gripped! So agreed, there was a lot I loved about it. It's the context of the rest of the series in terms of queer representation that made me go UGH at the end [also the voiceover because it fucked with my thematic consistency but that's another post] but if I can turn that side of my brain off I could rewatch this episode a bunch.
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