Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia, an Irene Adler-heavy recap
A few notes: I took over 200 screencaps of this episode, and most of them were of Irene Adler. So please no squee-harshing or Adler-bashing (though that is unimaginable to me). And please don't take these without permission. :)
Yay, it's back! I really can't believe it's been a year and a half. Remember when we all thought it was AGES?
Benedict! I've missed your scarily leonine face!
It's Bilbo Watson (TM Martin Freeman)!
I love how clever the writers are, and this entire sequence, starting with playing with classic Sherlock Holmes cases and ending with Sherlock in a deerstalker hat? Wonderful.
John, I'm ready for some Skype sexing. But please be gentle with me.
I love how petulant Sherlock is here.
Mine, John, that's a pretty wide stance you got there. *leer*
Oh god, the two of them were so freakin' adorable here. I can imagine that Martin and Benedict had a blast shooting this scene.
And introducing the lust of my life: One Irene Adler.
Benedict Cumberbatch doesn't really do it for me, but I have to admit that he is very very fit.
...And then he makes a face like this which reminds me that I'm scared he'll eat my face and then wear my skin.
Sherlock is intrigued by The Woman.
But then again, who wouldn't be? Just LOOK at this magnificence. And I'm not just talking about the wallpaper (BTW, this series is FULL of covetable wallpaper. Mmmm.)
Meanwhile... "John, do you think this is too casual?"
Irene's assistant/sex buddy Kate speaks for us all: I would. BTW, the royal with the sex scandal? Totally Kate Middleton.
I really really want someone to vid the fake fight to Florence and the Machine's "Kiss with a Fist."
Were I that hand upon that cheek!
NOBODY INSULTS A BAGGINS
SAY THE SHIRE RULES SAY IT
Benedict's face is AMAZEBALLS here. I almost fell off my couch laughing.
Defrocking Sherlock. Unf. UNF.
MORE UNF. WOMAN WILL YOU NOT LET UP?
GUESS NOT. CARRY ON.
THIGHS
I LOVED this. That Sherlock couldn't deduce ANYTHING about her. And I loved that he looked at John to make sure that his deductive skills weren't broken! <3
That is not even my coat, and I feel tingly everywhere looking at her in it.
Irene and John: A threesome, you say? Intriguing.
Actually, Irene would be the one to propose a menage a trois, wouldn't she? And John would stammer but then look at Sherlock. And Sherlock would look perplexed until Irene and John dragged him into bed with them.
FUCK. That was good for me. Was it good for you? DROP. IT. *shivers*
Just look at her FACE. Her crime-solving FACE. Sherlock + Irene + John + crime = a show I would watch every single damned day.
Her hair was very Star Wars in this scene. I mean, did she take Kate with her after she faked her death for hair-dressing reasons (and sexy ones)?
Good god, she's even more beautiful with her hair down and more natural make-up.
Sherlock: What do you mean, you're trying to seduce me? DOES. NOT. COMPUTE.
*shivers* A wee bit of a cop-out with Irene really having feelings for Sherlock. But unlike some fannish opinions I've seen around, I don't think it undermines Irene's strength at all. Like she implied in her conversation with John, we don't get to choose the people we're fascinated by/fall in love with. The Sherlock OT3 fic of my dreams would involve a gay Irene and a straight John both coming to terms with their feelings about a very asexual Sherlock, but they all make it work somehow. Because, well, she's The Woman, and John's The Doctor, and Sherlock belongs to both of them.
Tomorrow, icons! *falls over*
Yay, it's back! I really can't believe it's been a year and a half. Remember when we all thought it was AGES?
Benedict! I've missed your scarily leonine face!
It's Bilbo Watson (TM Martin Freeman)!
I love how clever the writers are, and this entire sequence, starting with playing with classic Sherlock Holmes cases and ending with Sherlock in a deerstalker hat? Wonderful.
John, I'm ready for some Skype sexing. But please be gentle with me.
I love how petulant Sherlock is here.
Mine, John, that's a pretty wide stance you got there. *leer*
Oh god, the two of them were so freakin' adorable here. I can imagine that Martin and Benedict had a blast shooting this scene.
And introducing the lust of my life: One Irene Adler.
Benedict Cumberbatch doesn't really do it for me, but I have to admit that he is very very fit.
...And then he makes a face like this which reminds me that I'm scared he'll eat my face and then wear my skin.
Sherlock is intrigued by The Woman.
But then again, who wouldn't be? Just LOOK at this magnificence. And I'm not just talking about the wallpaper (BTW, this series is FULL of covetable wallpaper. Mmmm.)
Meanwhile... "John, do you think this is too casual?"
Irene's assistant/sex buddy Kate speaks for us all: I would. BTW, the royal with the sex scandal? Totally Kate Middleton.
I really really want someone to vid the fake fight to Florence and the Machine's "Kiss with a Fist."
Were I that hand upon that cheek!
NOBODY INSULTS A BAGGINS
SAY THE SHIRE RULES SAY IT
Benedict's face is AMAZEBALLS here. I almost fell off my couch laughing.
Defrocking Sherlock. Unf. UNF.
MORE UNF. WOMAN WILL YOU NOT LET UP?
GUESS NOT. CARRY ON.
THIGHS
I LOVED this. That Sherlock couldn't deduce ANYTHING about her. And I loved that he looked at John to make sure that his deductive skills weren't broken! <3
That is not even my coat, and I feel tingly everywhere looking at her in it.
Irene and John: A threesome, you say? Intriguing.
Actually, Irene would be the one to propose a menage a trois, wouldn't she? And John would stammer but then look at Sherlock. And Sherlock would look perplexed until Irene and John dragged him into bed with them.
FUCK. That was good for me. Was it good for you? DROP. IT. *shivers*
Just look at her FACE. Her crime-solving FACE. Sherlock + Irene + John + crime = a show I would watch every single damned day.
Her hair was very Star Wars in this scene. I mean, did she take Kate with her after she faked her death for hair-dressing reasons (and sexy ones)?
Good god, she's even more beautiful with her hair down and more natural make-up.
Sherlock: What do you mean, you're trying to seduce me? DOES. NOT. COMPUTE.
*shivers* A wee bit of a cop-out with Irene really having feelings for Sherlock. But unlike some fannish opinions I've seen around, I don't think it undermines Irene's strength at all. Like she implied in her conversation with John, we don't get to choose the people we're fascinated by/fall in love with. The Sherlock OT3 fic of my dreams would involve a gay Irene and a straight John both coming to terms with their feelings about a very asexual Sherlock, but they all make it work somehow. Because, well, she's The Woman, and John's The Doctor, and Sherlock belongs to both of them.
Tomorrow, icons! *falls over*