Open letter to Sherlock fanfic writers

[spiderine]

Dear Sherlock fanfic writers

Comments

[eumelia]

Everything makes sense!

[spiderine]

Sometimes I wonder whether those people are watching the same show I am...

[eumelia]

I have just seen the show and have read enough fic to gather the trend and people just seem to not get... subtext and the fact that characters are fallible... that the fact that they are fictional and required to follow narrative causality doesn't make them inhuman!

[gypsylady]

*salutes* Yes'm

I don't read much Sherlock fic because I think a lot of what I've read should have been RPF, even though it's obvious the writers know neither the characters nor the actors.

[valancy_joy]

HEAR HEAR!! *beams approvingly* :)

[spiderine]

You have carte blanche. Either the post or the letter itself. Is Sparky into Sherlock?

[spiderine]

Is the Sherlock she's watching the Jeremy Brett or the new one with Benedict Cumberbatch (who MUST be called Cummerbund at every opportunity)? Because the eps of the latter that were shown on PBS were cut. Lots of character bits were lost. The ones direct from the BBC are full eps.

Everyone who has eyes to see with ships Holmes/Watson, especially with the Cummerbund series. But people have been shipping Holmes/Watson from the very beginning! "Decoding the Canon" is an amazing resource for that. http://www.nekosmuse.com/sherlockholmes/subtext.htm

Torchwood? Oy vey. Yes, there's lots and lots of bloody death; because it was conceived as a "post-watershed adults only" entry of the Doctor Who universe, they decided to take advantage of that with lots of blood and the occasional naughty word. The first season is also... kinda cracky (as in "were the writers on crack or something?")... but the series as a whole is lots of fun!

[leenah]

hey, do you have a spot with recs of good H/W (in any permutation) fic? i've read everything by katie forsythe 50 billion times, so no ned to rec that. :)