i’ve been illustrating a lot IRL for a lot of different purposes so i thought i’d draw Sally again!! why do i alway draw her holding coffee?? masterpiece mystery™
sherlock
The Sherlock finale was a mess, but I did really like the scene where Mycroft starts insulting John in order to get Sherlock to shoot him (Mycroft.)
I’m a terrible sucker for ‘older sibling does something inexplicably cruel in order to save their younger sibling further pain’ scenes. (See also: the TLMOE season 2 finale)
- there’s like 2 special effects and they are awful
- most of the scenes are set in a room with people talking and talking and not doing much else so they don’t even waste that much money in doing them, aka there’s not much risks to go over a budget, clearly they used it well
- the only scenes they could keep for the real episode they can do multiple takes with the real dialogue
- the visuals are embarrassing and there’s not creativity in it
i can’t believe people loved this episode and i hope moffat and gatiss laughed at their face after the screening was over
I’d just like to point out that that last comment is really not very nice. Everyone at the BFI screening was genuinely excited to be there, and whether you’re right and the current episode is fake and/or edited from what we will see tomorrow, everyone at the screening was POSITIVE that we were seeing new sherlock. It’s what we’d payed for, it’s what we’d come hundreds and thousands of miles for. It’s what we’d skipped work for. If mofftiss laughed at our faces, they were being cruel, and for you to say that is as well.
There’s a cruel, somewhat ableist “ha! how gullible!” subtext to that post, yes.
Meanwhile Mummy and Daddy Holmes are sipping tea in their cottage as their children burn England to the ground
They’re a bit like the Skywalkers really.
I agree that it’s dumb to eliminate female characters for the sake of a male-oriented plot, but you can’t just call every female death fridging. In real life, people just die. There doesn’t have to be a good reason or a good time.
That’s true. But in fiction, there is a disproportionate number of narratives which kill women (often in situations the men would survive) for the sake of the angst of the men, with the women being little more than plot motivators. I don’t think it is ultimately to be the case here, as her will even posthumously has been very heavily foregrounded here rather than just letting her be an object of angst, but it’s perilous and painful territory. And the sad thing is, this show just doesn’t have many prominent women to spare.