The Sherlock Rabbit Hole
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westernredcedarI've been lost in Sherlock fandom again for a while, mostly thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bk7brokemybrain who hooked me up with some amazing meta about Season 3 and I fell down the rabbit hole and have yet to emerge out the far end. Gah, this damn show. It just can't stop making me want to think about it.
The meta I've most enjoyed has been the detailed work of loudest_subtext_in_television, and as of last night I believe I have read everything she has on her masterlist at her blog. (I really enjoy the super-meta of reading a blog about a TV show that has a blog as a major plot element.) I'm completely intrigued by her reading of the text of the show, including her fascinating analysis of A Study in Pink (oh,oh,oh her screen caps and thoughts on the scene at Angelo's in ASiP! YES! Bisexual John! Yes!) and The Blind Banker (who would have thought I'd be convinced to revisit TBB for anything other than dissecting the horrid race issues?), as well as the exuberant amount of writing she has done about Season 3. I have also been following the work of abrae, who has so much insight, especially into the use of framing and the language of film in how we can and should interpret the new season through this lens. Good stuff.
Last night I stayed up far too late readingarianedevere's transcript of The Sign of Three. Originally I just went in search of the exact text where Sherlock explains that he has taught John to dance, but then I ended up reading the whole thing.
The one epiphany I had while reading the transcript was one that is old news to others, I'm sure. It's that Sherlock reads a telegram from Magnussen (CAM) to Mary at the wedding. Oh! Oh oh! I missed this on my several watchings so far. (See, it's this sort of interwoven subtle clue that gives me hope that the deep relationship building identified by loudest_subtext might have some hope, at least partially, of being intentional on the part of the writers. Also, it makes me harken back to all the crazy predictions and text analysis of my early years in HP fandom...oh, evolving canon, you are so fun.)
Anyhoo, I don't have any added thoughts of my own, as the complexity and depth of the meta already being written far outshines any tiny thoughts I might have. I suspect I'll read another transcript tonight, and then I really, really want to try and write a plausible scene in which Sherlock teaches John to dance, alone at Baker St, because, holy shit...how would that even go down?
I get overwhelmed with UST just thinking about it.
bk7brokemybrain who hooked me up with some amazing meta about Season 3 and I fell down the rabbit hole and have yet to emerge out the far end. Gah, this damn show. It just can't stop making me want to think about it.The meta I've most enjoyed has been the detailed work of loudest_subtext_in_television, and as of last night I believe I have read everything she has on her masterlist at her blog. (I really enjoy the super-meta of reading a blog about a TV show that has a blog as a major plot element.) I'm completely intrigued by her reading of the text of the show, including her fascinating analysis of A Study in Pink (oh,oh,oh her screen caps and thoughts on the scene at Angelo's in ASiP! YES! Bisexual John! Yes!) and The Blind Banker (who would have thought I'd be convinced to revisit TBB for anything other than dissecting the horrid race issues?), as well as the exuberant amount of writing she has done about Season 3. I have also been following the work of abrae, who has so much insight, especially into the use of framing and the language of film in how we can and should interpret the new season through this lens. Good stuff.
Last night I stayed up far too late reading
arianedevere's transcript of The Sign of Three. Originally I just went in search of the exact text where Sherlock explains that he has taught John to dance, but then I ended up reading the whole thing. The one epiphany I had while reading the transcript was one that is old news to others, I'm sure. It's that Sherlock reads a telegram from Magnussen (CAM) to Mary at the wedding. Oh! Oh oh! I missed this on my several watchings so far. (See, it's this sort of interwoven subtle clue that gives me hope that the deep relationship building identified by loudest_subtext might have some hope, at least partially, of being intentional on the part of the writers. Also, it makes me harken back to all the crazy predictions and text analysis of my early years in HP fandom...oh, evolving canon, you are so fun.)
Anyhoo, I don't have any added thoughts of my own, as the complexity and depth of the meta already being written far outshines any tiny thoughts I might have. I suspect I'll read another transcript tonight, and then I really, really want to try and write a plausible scene in which Sherlock teaches John to dance, alone at Baker St, because, holy shit...how would that even go down?
I get overwhelmed with UST just thinking about it.
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Date: 13 Feb 2014 04:50 am (UTC)Here is the right one
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Date: 13 Feb 2014 08:15 am (UTC)Yes, it's zero dark thirty. But I have devoured the first two essays on the episodes. Joy!
Sleep now. Dream of what Sherlock and John's first romantic encounter will look like.
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Date: 13 Feb 2014 03:17 pm (UTC)I was dreaming of how to get them dancing.
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Date: 13 Feb 2014 04:08 pm (UTC)I'd like to know how much he'd tell John about his love of dancing and training/abilities. Sherlock is really opening up to John, letting himself be vulnerable, all the way up to his epiphany and the baby deduction and their shared look. After that he clamps down on his feelings and pushes John away, makes himself look like a machine again, so I wonder if he'd regret showing John that hidden part of his desires for himself.
Also, I wondered if there wasn't a barre hidden in 221 somewhere, where he exercises. :) He's in great shape for a man who never seems to work out.
Have you seen the Ritchie films? In the second, H&W are at a diplomatic ball and H takes W for a spin around the dance floor (!!!) to scope out an assassin. That thrilled and shocked me, since I wasn't sure how much of a spectacle they were making of themselves, but Holmes asks Watson who taught him how to dance, and Watson tenderly recalls, "You." Lovely moment!
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Date: 13 Feb 2014 06:35 pm (UTC)Is Holmes a dancer in ACD canon? I'm still only an ACD canon novice.
Also, if the kid naps I might take a crack at writing up a dance lesson scene. You'll be the first to know. I think all the nuance you are talking about about how much he would share or not is the part I'm curious about, and want to see what would happen in a fic...especially knowing they get interrupted by Mrs. Hudson. So much potential there.
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Date: 13 Feb 2014 07:11 pm (UTC)That's the dance scene.
RDJ has said he is playing Sherlock as gay and in love with Watson, the script supports it. He is not as gracious about Watson's marriage as Cumberbatch's version. Still, he grudgingly, petulantly supports Watson as he gets him to the church on time, etc.
I really did not like the first movie. The second was much better, and then the first grew on me a bit. Mostly, it was too far from canon for my taste, sexualizing Holmes who was always above it all in canon. This version is dirty, scruffy, in touch with his (gay) sexual self, but turns out to be huggy and kissy with Irene Adler in a more fraternal way. I have grown to love RDJ's version, after all. It has everything to do with RDJ himself and his chemistry with Jude Law.
Oh, and Game of Shadows has a freaking hot pseudo sex scene between the two with Holmes on his back, Watson trying to throttle him, angry, ripping Holmes's clothes off, Holmes wrapping his legs around Watson. Holy hotness, Batman. So much passion.
Okay... here's a link to that scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHsOZyhTNY If you hate spoilers, then don't watch. If you don't care, then watch, but get a towel ready because your hands will be sweating by the time it's over. Here, Holmes is putting himself in the place of the new bride, just as our Sherlock was doing all through TSoT. It's the first 1:20 that is pertinent. The entire train sequence is fantastic.
I don't know if ACD's Holmes was a dancer at all. I haven't read all the stories. I imagine he'd have been given lessons as a boy, at minimum.
Jeremy Brett could do the Safety Dance, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSiK0-Nh65M Trippy.
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Date: 14 Feb 2014 01:56 am (UTC)I'm 1000 words into the dancing. Oh yes I am. Hoping to get a draft finished this evening, this is just meant to be a little thingy for fun and not a multi-day writing exercise.
Around tonight if I could use a read-through? No worries if not.
I'll be all over watching Game of Shadows when I get this thing finished.
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Date: 14 Feb 2014 02:00 am (UTC)Game of Shadows has a better 'case' in it, too. Enjoy it.
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Date: 14 Feb 2014 10:44 am (UTC)