Sherlock (Okay, maybe I do want to talk about it.)
Here's the rule for this post: I will talk about this show. I will even talk about things not in this post if you want to bring them up. However, you cannot ruin it for me in the comments. If you hate the things I love, talk about it elsewhere, not in the comments to this entry. I realize I'm being weird and neurotic about this show, but you're either going to have to just put up with it for now or skip these entries. (Also, in case you're not someone I talk to on a regular basis: I'm having a rough couple of weeks and I stayed home sick today, hence the exacting expression of my control issues.)
Four things:
Detail from "A Scandal in Belgravia"
I cannot stop thinking about how Sherlock keeps the phone. It so beautifully echoes the first episode: "If she'd left him, he would have kept it. People do. Sentiment."
Detail from "The Hounds of Baskerville" and "The Reichenbach Fall"
In "The Hounds of Baskerville," John gives Sherlock shit for the thing he does with his collar: "You being all mysterious with your cheekbones and turning your coat collar up so you look cool." In "The Reichenbach Fall," Lestrade warns Sherlock about not being his usual self to the kidnapped girl, and he turns his collar down before he goes in to see her.
I want an "I ♥ Molly Hooper" button.
Apparently I was on the bleeding edge of the liking Molly Hooper fandom curve. (Of course I like Molly. She's us: the smart, mousy girl who adores the hero.) I have loved her for a while (that Google Doc behind the curtain and the other snippet in my snippets Google Doc are both Molly/Sherlock, or possibly Molly&Sherlock), and, ohhhh, "The Reichenbach Fall." The scene where she says, "You look sad. When you think he can't see you," was my absolute favorite from that whole episode. Also, I kept expecting Sherlock to tell Moriarty he'd undercounted by one.
Is the ending spoiler a spoiler?
I had a brief version of this conversation over email, so I thought I would ask here too: Is it a spoiler that Sherlock doesn't really die? Here's why I ask: I never read any of the Sherlock Holmes stories. (At the age that I might have, I read Hercule Poirot novels instead. Of course I did. Even as a kid, I always chose the female author.) I never watched any of the other movie or TV versions of Sherlock Holmes. And yet, even before watching either the Guy Ritchie movies or Sherlock, I knew that Sherlock Holmes doesn't die at Reichenbach. I just assumed that's common cultural knowledge, but perhaps I'm wrong about that.
Four things:
Detail from "A Scandal in Belgravia"
I cannot stop thinking about how Sherlock keeps the phone. It so beautifully echoes the first episode: "If she'd left him, he would have kept it. People do. Sentiment."
Detail from "The Hounds of Baskerville" and "The Reichenbach Fall"
In "The Hounds of Baskerville," John gives Sherlock shit for the thing he does with his collar: "You being all mysterious with your cheekbones and turning your coat collar up so you look cool." In "The Reichenbach Fall," Lestrade warns Sherlock about not being his usual self to the kidnapped girl, and he turns his collar down before he goes in to see her.
I want an "I ♥ Molly Hooper" button.
Apparently I was on the bleeding edge of the liking Molly Hooper fandom curve. (Of course I like Molly. She's us: the smart, mousy girl who adores the hero.) I have loved her for a while (that Google Doc behind the curtain and the other snippet in my snippets Google Doc are both Molly/Sherlock, or possibly Molly&Sherlock), and, ohhhh, "The Reichenbach Fall." The scene where she says, "You look sad. When you think he can't see you," was my absolute favorite from that whole episode. Also, I kept expecting Sherlock to tell Moriarty he'd undercounted by one.
Is the ending spoiler a spoiler?
I had a brief version of this conversation over email, so I thought I would ask here too: Is it a spoiler that Sherlock doesn't really die? Here's why I ask: I never read any of the Sherlock Holmes stories. (At the age that I might have, I read Hercule Poirot novels instead. Of course I did. Even as a kid, I always chose the female author.) I never watched any of the other movie or TV versions of Sherlock Holmes. And yet, even before watching either the Guy Ritchie movies or Sherlock, I knew that Sherlock Holmes doesn't die at Reichenbach. I just assumed that's common cultural knowledge, but perhaps I'm wrong about that.