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reflectedeve) wrote2010-07-27 11:39 pm
reflectedeve) wrote2010-07-27 11:39 pm
the border lines we drew between us
I am so sleepy right now; I've started going to the gym again at last, and it feels wonderful (hello endorphins, I missed you), but clearly this is an additional effect.
My flist has been overrun with Sherlock squee the last day or so, and having just finished the episode, I can see why. (I want all the fic, please.) The whole "modern" setting is handled beautifully, for the most part, and I'm deeply pleased with the Holmes & Watson characterizations. There's just one thing (well, there's definitely more, but for now): I am, once again, feeling heartily tired of this incredibly self-conscious approach to subtexty friend(/partner)ships, in which they explicitly bring up the possibility of gayness in order to deny it. (I saw a friend note this on twitter when the show had just aired, and she was quite right.) Sure, we can and will get around that, as always, but it's still frustrating. The characters doth protest too much; I still love their dynamic, but I want that to go somewhere, for real.
I look forward to reading everyone else's reaction posts, which I've been avoiding, when I'm more awake. (Speaking of reactions, where's all the White Collar squee I'm usually avoiding right about now? I hope this week's episode wasn't a disappointment.)
Okay, bed. As usual, there are plenty of other things I'd really like to talk about (Gerard's hair! The upcoming Young Justice cartoon! Community being so amazing, omg, what took me this long? etc) - I need to develop more stamina. (Also, I need to find time to make some icons, because mine are really out of date/unbalanced.)
My flist has been overrun with Sherlock squee the last day or so, and having just finished the episode, I can see why. (I want all the fic, please.) The whole "modern" setting is handled beautifully, for the most part, and I'm deeply pleased with the Holmes & Watson characterizations. There's just one thing (well, there's definitely more, but for now): I am, once again, feeling heartily tired of this incredibly self-conscious approach to subtexty friend(/partner)ships, in which they explicitly bring up the possibility of gayness in order to deny it. (I saw a friend note this on twitter when the show had just aired, and she was quite right.) Sure, we can and will get around that, as always, but it's still frustrating. The characters doth protest too much; I still love their dynamic, but I want that to go somewhere, for real.
I look forward to reading everyone else's reaction posts, which I've been avoiding, when I'm more awake. (Speaking of reactions, where's all the White Collar squee I'm usually avoiding right about now? I hope this week's episode wasn't a disappointment.)
Okay, bed. As usual, there are plenty of other things I'd really like to talk about (Gerard's hair! The upcoming Young Justice cartoon! Community being so amazing, omg, what took me this long? etc) - I need to develop more stamina. (Also, I need to find time to make some icons, because mine are really out of date/unbalanced.)