Dual purpose post

[rose_of_pollux]

Well, today is a day of mixed emotions. While today marks the anniversary of The Monkees hitting the airwaves, today is also 17 years to the day that we lost Jeremy Brett. I know now for certain I'm fangirl crushing on him. And I miss him and wish he was here as much as I do for Davy, Richard, Simon, Darren, and Steve

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[marie1964]

Which Steve is this? Jeremy does have the most adorable chuckle, and his voice carries a very strong presence. I think that definitely helped to seal him as the definitive Holmes in many people's minds.

I hadn't heard he had written a book about Holmes. What's the name of it and where can I find it?

I didn't know that about Jeremy's background--very cool! And yes, you do see him using drugs during the show--those parts can be very heart-wrenching. :( The BBC Sherlock mirrors that a bit--Sherlock can be seen smoking, but he also uses a patch to try to get off it.

[rose_of_pollux]

Steve Barton, who played Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera--I used to have an icon of him, actually, but I replaced it after I sorta left the fandom out of disgust of the shipping wars. But I still love and adore Steve.

It's not a book--it's his own (unpublished) personal character/fandom analysis, like the (much) smaller ones I post here and on tumblr. XD A labor of love.

*nodnod*

[marie1964]

If it's unpublished, how do you know about it? About how long it is and what some of the context is?

[rose_of_pollux]

He'd mentioned it in interviews, and would sometimes talk about his headcanon in said interviews.

As I mentioned in the entry, it was 70 pages long. I don't know the entire contents, obviously, but among the many elements in his headcanon are that Sherlock had very little contact with his mother as a child and that, when he was in college, Sherlock was spurned by a girl he was crushing on--which was to explain both Sherlock's cold, aloof nature and his low opinion of women.

[marie1964]

That does make sense, about how he doesn't trust/like women.

Have you seen the movie "Young Sherlock Holmes?" It's not canon, but more of a what-if had Sherlock and Watson met when they were teenagers at school. It's very enjoyable, and I like their explanation for why Sherlock doesn't like women. [No, not slash.]