Some musings and more general time wasting

[mymetalphantom]

Watching House of Cards on cable was very annoying. Because BBC programmes have no advert breaks cable have to cut loads out of them so they can work their ten minutes of adverts in. This is why the BBC = better than all other channels.

Okay, and you people on the Points of View messageboard over at bbc.co.uk, stop whinging about...everything! And leave Jonathan Ross alone now because that is getting very, very, very old and boring.



So last September, over on Holmesian.net, someone started a thread about "if you could be a canon character for a day..." and I have spent this long agonising over this ridiculously simple question.

At first I thought that I wanted to be Watson, solely so that I could be Holmes's one true love (yes he is!) I really didn't even mind that I would have to become a man to do this. It's only for a day, right?

Then I thought, wait, would I have to have leg and/or shoulder injuries? I'm not sure I'd want a bullet wound that some scary Victorian surgeon had operated on.

So, I decided to do the online "which Sherlock Holmes character are you?" test that was recommended on Holmesian.net. Do you know who I got?

...Sherlock Holmes.

I'm slightly...not flattered by that. lol

I wouldn't consider myself very Holmes-like.

I also discovered that I have a rather unpopular fannish opinion...
...Sherlock Holmes was not even a little bit in love with Irene Adler. Yes, yes I know, the woman and all that jazz, but seriously, he spends the majority of his aquaintance with her happily helping her get married to someone else! Not exactly the greatest love story is it?

I think it sells the character a little short to suggest that the only way Holmes could admire her was because he loved her. Surely it is more flattering (and far more canonical) to have Holmes consider her intelligent.

Yet, whenever I mention this to other Holmes fans they look blankly at me. Maybe I talk to the wrong fans. Granted I also ship characters but I don't claim that my ship is OMG! CLEARLY CANON!

(even though OMG! Holmes/Watson is totally canon! Can't you read? And Holmes/Lestrade is also canon if you only ever watch the Granada Holmes and let your imagination run away with you completely).


Note to self: Stop being in love with Matthew Wright!

Comments

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Re: Irene Adler - You are SO TOTALLY RIGHT. I think it's really silly (and insulting) to say that Holmes couldn't have had regard for her without there being romance/attraction involved. I mean, come on, he's incredibly egotistical and this woman outsmarted him. He has respect for her wit and quick-thinking. I think she threw him for a loop, but love doesn't enter into it.

Also, Holmes/Watson is totally canon XD Nobody could argue that Watson isn't the most important person in Holmes's life, in all seriousness.

And Holmes/Lestrade is also canon if you only ever watch the Granada Holmes and let your imagination run away with you completely).

<3!!!

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

YAY! Finally, someone with some sense!

Personally I believe that the fangirlish insistence that she was OMG his twu wuv! stems from the desire to put themselves in Irene's place. To hold her up as evidence that he was interested in women.

Holmes would rightly dismiss it as romantic drivel.

God, I'm quite in love with him!

Nobody could argue that Watson isn't the most important person in Holmes's life, in all seriousness.

Yes, definitely. Jeremy Brett claimed that without Watson, Holmes might have eventually burnt-out on cocaine. I don't fully subscribe to that theory but I believe that Holmes and Watson are the perfect couple - in many respects.

I fully accept that canon does not really support my second favourite ship ;)

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Personally I believe that the fangirlish insistence that she was OMG his twu wuv! stems from the desire to put themselves in Irene's place. To hold her up as evidence that he was interested in women.

Yeah, seriously. I never thought of the "putting themselves in her place" thing, but the second one is something I thought of. Even "The Seven Per Cent Solution," which I liked very much, tried to explain away Holmes's disinterest in women. Slash aside, I don't think Holmes's interest or not in women needs to be rationalized.

Jeremy Brett claimed that without Watson, Holmes might have eventually burnt-out on cocaine.

I can definitely see that, considering how they played Holmes and Watson :)

I fully accept that canon does not really support my second favourite ship ;)

I love your second favourite ship XD And there's certainly canon support for affection!