Freudian Fandom: Our daddy vs Our son

just-sort-of-happened:

I’ve been thinking that it’s really interesting that, at least in the Sherlock fandom, there are two aesthetics of how we, broadly speaking, relate to Benedict Cumberbatch vs Martin Freeman.

Now, I know not all of us think of things this way, but the concept is out there; the idea of these actors as, ‘daddy’, and, ‘son’.  The thing I find fascinating is that each fandom (if we were to pretend they’re discrete groups) has an aesthetic that seems to follow from the relationship it implies between the actors and the fans.

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