Sunday links

[selenak]

As I won't get to watch the new Fringe until the 21st or thereabouts, have some links collected over the last week referring to other interests instead:

Sherlock and Doctor Who:
A Scandal in Fandom: Stephen Moffat, Irene Adler and the fannish gaze: probably the best post on the matter I've read so far, blessedly unpolemical, and great with

Comments

[fresne]

Having dove with a splash into the Sherlock and then the T.E. Lawrence links, delicious. They were both very interesting. I'll have to check out that documentary.

Hmmm... slash fanfic reading aside I tend to read ACD:Holmes as asexual and T.E. as close to same. Then pattern matching between two disconnected things as fans are wont to do, based on Mack's Bio of Lawrence I then get to clasify Watson as an "Enabler" of Sherlock in the Lawrence-ian sense.

The Sherlock essay was both interesting as an essay on Belgravia and on fannish behavior. The Spike of it and the 4th Doctor and, where you stop the story informing interpretation. Especially since, well, any pastiche is a fannish interpretation. Each of which interact with each other. One of the first comments on the Sherlock essay after all being about how Belgravia interacted with their idea of Irene from the series of Irene mystery books by Carol Douglas Nelson. While the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Hmm... there is no lochness monster. Only a plane full of the dead. And a story that is still ongoing. Characters still changing.

[selenak]

Hmmm... slash fanfic reading aside I tend to read ACD:Holmes as asexual and T.E. as close to same.

Same here. BTW, I think the Mack bio is still the best out there.

[fresne]

BTW, I think the Mack bio is still the best out there.
Agreed. One of the few times I've checked out a bio from the library and turned around and bought a copy. Insightful both about T.E.L and people in general.