As a fellow MSTie: what's your favorite episode? And have you seen the new season on the Gizmoplex?
Fellow MSTie alert!!! 🚨🚨🚨ahhhh, i love this! Think I can unequivocally say ...
The Mole People! 🍿😉👌
(0 seconds hesitation there!) Bahaha!!! Also love 'Teenagers From Outer Space', 'The Unearthly', and 'The Touch of Satan'. Though I think the B&W ones get the funniest! What are your faves???
AND NO!! I haven't yet gone to the Gizmoplex?! will have to check it out!! Still doing my seasonal rewatch of old faves!! haha
Happy Holidays! ~ Liriels
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While I absolutely love both BBC Sherlock and Sherlock & Co, Sherlock & Co definitely depicts a more healthy relationship between Sherlock and John.
For starters, on BBC Sherlock, Sherlock and John are both co-dependent on each other. John was implied to be suicidal before he met Sherlock. Sherlock relapses without John by his side. Even with Mary to substitute the void in his heart and help him find purpose again, John would never move on from Sherlock. If anything happened to John, it wouldn't end well for anyone, especially Sherlock.
On Sherlock & Co, one of John's only problems after returning home from Ukraine was that he couldn't afford a flat on his own. He seemed to be very excited about life, going on dates, couldn't wait to start his podcast. He was genuinely happy to see Mike.
Sherlock could easily manage on his own without John. He doesn't need to be reminded to eat, he doesn't need an assistant for cases, he doesn't need someone to take care of him. His only problem is that he needs a flatmate.
Although John and Sherlock both need each other to afford rent, they don't need each other for anything else. They want each other's company, they don't need it. They aren't two halves of a whole, they are two wholes coming together. That's how it should be with all healthy relationships, platonic, romantic, queerplatonic, or otherwise.
It also helps a lot that Sherlock isn't a complete jerk on Sherlock & Co. He genuinely treats John and everyone else with a kindness that while I believe BBC Sherlock is capable of it, he rarely showed it. When John's PTSD is triggered, Sherlock asks John if he'd rather sit out that case. He then asks John if he wants to hold hands and discuss his feelings. In part one of the Blue Carbuncle, Sherlock complimented, actually complimented John. That kind of scene just never happened on BBC Sherlock. John was doing his "That was fantastic! You're amazing!" and Sherlock said, "You flatter me, Watson. But you did awesome too! You should have seen the way you did that! It was brilliant!"
John seems like a much more well rounded happy person in general. Just listen to any of his viewer discretion warnings. "Greetings you handsome devil! This episode will contain a bit of the old swearing, a bit of violence, some drug use. Oh and a bit of duck poo!" I hate to make this comparison, due to how much it will sound like an insult. But he acts like the quirky Disney Princess personality that every Disney Princess from the 2010s has and I mean that in the best possible way. It's my favorite thing about him. He's so adorable.
In the Blue Carbuncle, John has a moment similar to ones that you've seen many times before on BBC Sherlock. John has plans that mean he won't be able to help with the case. He is going to Berlin to spend Christmas with his old army friends. It's going to be his first boys' trip in years. But then he gets so sucked into the case that he's almost late for his plane and decides to just stay with Sherlock anyway because the case is just so fascinating he can't leave. On BBC Sherlock, John has abandoned his plans, his job, his girlfriends, for a case because he couldn't stand to be without Sherlock for so long. Also because Sherlock would often crash is dates, ruin his relationships, just so that John could assist him on cases. On Sherlock & Co, Sherlock was happy for John that he was going out with friends, even though it would mean spending the holidays alone. And Sherlock LOVES Christmas, so it's sad to think that he would have to spend it alone.
Where BBC Sherlock would manipulate or guilt John into staying, Sherlock & Co Sherlock let John go and was genuinely fine with going it alone for a week or two, even if it meant being all alone on Christmas.
I love BBC Sherlock, toxic co-dependent relationships and all, and I always will. But Sherlock & Co gives a little something different and I am happy that my boys are happier.
SH: *laughing* What's so funny Watson?
JW: *laughing* It's just hearing you say "bell end"
SH: Lovely and jubbly
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Last post for today but I’ve started watching Sherlock Holmes (1984, Granada Holmes) and I need to scream about it!!!
I am still in season 1 but so far it is an absolutely fantastic adaptation and ADORE how Jeremy Brett plays Holmes. The intensity. But also the warmth and the humor. He is captivating. I am having an existential crisis two to three times per episode; he is such a fucking great Holmes! (Also, I just have to add, the man is sexy as hell in the role. Hot damn.)
I need to watch more and I need to learn more about the Behind the Scenes and the actors and especially Jeremy Brett.
Meanwhile, I am still reading my way through the Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and I friggin’ love Holmes and Watson together. They are truly special.
I am having so many THOUGHTS and I am so HAPPY.
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oh so first burying oneself under the other’s covers only to emerge asking about shoelaces, then watching the other in their sleep and later flopping on the other’s matress cursing in frustration of unsolved case, but asking deep personal questions about the other’s past and laughing together a while after?
and now waking the other up in the morning with a cup of tea? oh okay sure
what, maybe you’ve even sat on the edge of sherlock’s bed with that tea, john, and looked at him light-heartedly as he was pretending to sleep despite your talking, early sunlight probably splayed on his face and shining warmly on his disheveled hair or whatever? yeah of course why wouldn’t you perform this perfectly platonic activity, just warn me when I should give you both some privacy so that you can present him with a morning kiss alright
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gonna be so honest i prefer the pairings that aren’t canon but everyone ships them over actual canon couples. like there is something so fun about posts connecting the most random dots, and “fix it” fanfiction, and the outlandish theories about how it really is canon guys i swear
i LOVE queer rep in shows, don’t get me wrong, and they are just as fun to ship, but that good ol homoerotic tension just ain’t what it used to be
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Elementary
A few favorite non-verbal communications between Sherlock and Joan
Episodes 1x01, 1x01, 1x06, 2x05
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Sherlock Holmes (1916) Clips I Don't Have a Heterosexual Explanation For
While this is definitely one of my least favorite Sherlock Holmes movies I've ever seen - not because it's a silent movie, but because the plot is boring, the romance is extremely unconvincing, and I'm not clear if it understands how to be a movie in general - it sure does have some clips that seem to go somewhat against the bland heterosexuality of the movie's premise.
Especially the first clip. I can't even conceive of the thought process behind the first clip. Truly.
So I put them together into a slightly-under-one-and-a-half-minute video. Enjoy!
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