Comments | marta_bee: Reviews: The Adventure of the Three Students; Captain America 1, + RL bits and bobs

marta_bee

Reviews: The Adventure of the Three Students; Captain America 1, + RL bits and bobs

Apr 08, 2014 23:40

I've been rereading "The Adventures of the Three Students" (read it online) to go along with the sherlock60 community's discussion ( Read more... )

sherlock, movies, rl

Comments 4

lindahoyland April 9 2014, 05:10:43 UTC

I've decided to watch the comm and re-read the stories as they are mentioned. Original Sherlock is my favourite. Thanks for telling me about this.

marta_bee April 9 2014, 05:13:51 UTC

You're welcome. I've only participated in one discussion and not written any fic yet (100 words is my limit; 60 seems beyond me), but I've enjoyed watching it for a while myself, too. vaysh11 is a much more regular contributor, and generally the people I've seen around there seem like a good sort. Hope you like watching and reading along.

dreamflower02 April 9 2014, 09:03:47 UTC

I'd forgotten that particular story! Thanks for the refresher. I think one of the things that attracted me to the original Doyle stories was the Victorian milieu and the authentic attitudes. They are rather like little time capsules as well as fun mysteries.

I agree with your assessment of Captain America. The DH and I re-watched it the other evening. I was never a Marvel fan growing up, but I was still familiar with all their most well-known characters, and I have found the recent movie adaptations a lot more accessible. The character of Steve Rogers is very refreshing, and captures his essential decency. I like him far more than the Tony Stark character, who is basically a brat.

marta_bee April 9 2014, 16:40:32 UTC

I think one of the things that attracted me to the original Doyle stories was the Victorian milieu and the authentic attitudes. They are rather like little time capsules as well as fun mysteries.It's kind of the same thing that drew me to the Tolkien stories originally, why the Shire is always such a breath of fresh air at the beginning of LOTR for me. It's not that hobbits are my favorite characters (sorry!) but that the world is cleaner and brighter and purer, or seems to be. Things like goodness and decency actually matter. And while Doyle's world isn't perfect, there's that same sense of a fresh breath in a world with a bit too much realism about it, I guess ( ... )