Sherlock

[privatemaladict]

And where would I be without a new thing to squee over?

Following multiple recommendations from trusted friends, as well as a vague understanding that Stephen Moffat was somehow involved, I decided to watch Sherlock. This, for those who struggle to keep up with all the Sherlock Holmes adaptations floating around the moment, is the BBC modern-day

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[privatemaladict]

I think if they'd submitted The Reichenbach Fall rather than A Scandal in Belgravia, they'd have had a better chance at winning the Emmys.

Agree completely. I enjoyed Scandal, but it has a few problematic elements (which I apreciate even more now that I've read the original story, A Scandal in Bohemia). But even if you don't realise or mind that Irene Adler has been changed from the woman who defeats Sherlock Holmes to the woman who first loses to, and then has to be rescued by Sherlock Holmes, I think the whole "rescue" bit at the end is just a little bit far-fetched. It jarred me out of suspension of disbelief, which is unfortunate for an otherwise excellent episode.

Sherlock is more flamboyant but I think they both do a great job with conveying emotions in a very subtle

Sherlock prehaps the more interesting of the two, because he doesn't react to things the way normal people do, and it's genuinely hard to guess what he might be feeling - the little giveaways are all the sweted when they do occur. Watson is easier to relate to. (And didn't the whole "Don't be dead" speech just break you into a thousand little pieces? That sort of desperate wishing for something terrible not to be true... Ugh, that hits rather close to home.) Anyway, both of them are brilliant.

So, tell me about the comms?

[gmonkey42]

There's ontd_seductions, it's invitation-only but I can get you an invite. It started as a spin-off of ontd_deductions because there was a lot of disagreement on _d about what type of content was allowed and, IDK it seemed like there was a vocal minority of new members who came in and demanded that we change the way we've been doing things and the mods were in a difficult position and kind of took their side. Anyway, _seductions is much more active now, there are about 2-4 posts per week and we talk about all kinds of stuff.

I'm a member of both and the idea is _deductions is supposed to be more about serious Sherlock Holmes discussion, (except there aren't enough people left to have a lot of posts) and _seductions is a lot more fandom/crack but there are a few of us there who are into the books and like to discuss things too. There's a Friday Free-For-All post every week that's mostly off-topic, and off-topic comments are allowed on any post (that's one of the changes they made at _d, no off-topic comments there), and if there's a new interview or photo or something, then someone will make a post about that, but any member can make a post so it's basically whatever you want it to be. I like it, we have some good discussions and even when we disagree about stuff, everyone's respectful. Which was a problem we had with _d and that's why _s is invitation-only, to keep out the trolls.

AFAIK _d is still open-membership. Let me know if you want to join _s and I'll PM the mods.