Fandom: *bored*
New thing: *is released without warning*
Fandom: omgomgomgomgoHMYGAWD I’M SCREAMING I CAN’T HANDLE THIS SLAY MY ENTIRE ASS I’M DYINGGGG
Fandom: *gifs thing in lightning speed and reblogs 221 times*
Fandom: Hey, did you notice this (prop/costume), it’s the same as in (setlock date/episode) *adds 1k worth of research*
Fandom: … is that a dick joke?
Fandom: Also, this is definitely (ACD canon reference).
Fandom from different time zone: WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING
Fandom: … that’s definitely a dick joke.
Fandom: This is so gay. I love it.
Fandom: What can we predict for the plot from this 0.1 seconds of footage? *adds 57 theories*
Fandom: MOFTISS *shakes fist*
Fandom: This is so gay. I hate them.
Fandom: *starts to make (nsfw) crack posts using the new footage*
Fandom: *has analysed every single frame of the new footage in less than [footage time x 1895]*
Fandom: …
Fandom: *bored*
sherlock calling mycroft “blud” was the most embarrassing thing. if that had been a fanfic i would have closed out of it.
so many things happen in this show that if it were a fanfic i would be like “what the ever loving f”
‘If it was a fanfic I would have closed out of it’ is the perfect summary for my feelings on TEH
I find that “blud” line awkward as well, although I think that that was intentional. I assume that it was meant to balance John’s awkward “mate” later on, as well as the less succinct versions of this with Mrs. Hudson and with Molly. And, together, they were underscoring the whole issue of picking up where things left off…only not, because life really had gone on and no one was untouched by that passage of time. So they all were re-establishing what they were to each other, Sherlock to each of them, full of false steps and awkward moments.
But yeah, I still find the episode unsettling, even though insight from the series as a whole gives it some justification. I mean, what seemed on first viewing to be a wholly changed character shown by Sherlock, we now know reflects the changed POV of the whole series—something I find fascinating and wicked clever. And the issue of facades, confusing or at least fairly insignificant at first, has much greater resonance now we’ve seen HLV. The lack of fall solutions and their replacement by fanfic versions still makes me unfulfilled, but perhaps when I get over my resentment I’ll have a more visceral rather than simply literary appreciation of them. I continue to be a bit grudging in my acceptance of what seems to be kowtowing to BC’s vanity: letting him do his French waiter bit and of course hiring his parents, but those parents show more promise in HLV and that, too, changes how I see them in TEH. And then, yeah, the whole tube carriage scene was just AU when we failed to understand the POV change. This is, even more than TBB, an episode I really don’t rewatch.
I guess that’s what it comes down to for me, then: a whole lot of the OOC that would have had me closing a tab with a written fanfic is now to some degree justified by the series as a whole. Kind of like the fic you’ve noped out of a couple times before but that has now, completed, gotten such good reviews from fans you trust that the later chapters are much improved and the writer posts in a note that they’re now working with a beta and so you suck it up and persevere and while it’s not your favourite fic ever, it’s not terrible. But you’re not sure you can comment with any grace or conviction, so you just leave kudos to be polite and go looking for something more enthralling.
