I made LiveJournal icons. Unfortunately, no-one uses them anymore. Or uses LiveJournal anymore, I suspect. This makes me sad.
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-Doctor Who (lots of Amy and Amy/Rory)
-The Hunger Games
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-Doctor Who cast (Karen, Arthur, Matt and Freema)
Textures are by planets-bend-between-us at Tumblr. Number 1 is from this bit of not-quite-art here, and Number 6 from this one.
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Sherlock megapost
I have Warmed Up to Sherlock now. The show, I mean. I still don’t quite like Benedict Cumberbatch’s interpretation. He’s a great character but he’s not my Holmes, if you know what I mean. And Martin Freeman isn’t my Watson. But I did finally feel the friendship between them in this episode, and it was so sad. Especially when they were sort of reaching out to each other and not touching, when Sherlock was on the roof. Wibble.
Also: Jen from The IT Crowd was in this episode! <3 Which brings me neatly into what I really wanted to talk about, which is the women of Sherlock. I know that A Scandal In Begravia was accused of being sexist because Irene failed to beat Sherlock, as she did in the original. Instead, he guessed her password, defeated her and saved her life. I've only seen it once, so I doubt I'm qualified to talk about if it was sexist or not. But…Irene dies in the original stories. By the time Watson starts writing A Scandal In Bohemia, she’s now ‘the late Irene Adler’. Assuming that there’s not that long between the story taking place and Watson writing it, Irene died young. So in the original, she dies. In the new one, she lives. That sounds good to me. Everything else (her role as dominatrix, her being saved by a man…) I’ll let smarter people go over.
And then there’s Molly. I LOVE HER. I even hastily made an icon of her so I could use it on this post. Her role in The Reichenbach Fall was so quiet but so, so important- Sherlock disregarded her for so long, but she persisted on being his friend, on trying to help. Moriarty thought he’d targeted all Sherlock’s friends, but that one girl, that one lovely compassionate clever girl, she slipped under his radar and she was the key to the whole thing. Moriarty used her, and then ignored her, and that was a bad mistake. I’ma gonna point you towards Molly’s entry on the official Sherlock site- “…she’s good at her job and, in some ways, far more perceptive about the real Sherlock than he is himself.” Irene Adler might have been the only woman to know who Sherlock was, but Molly knew the man he could grow to be.
I love her okay? I could write PAGES about her. She’s great. Anyway-
One more woman to discuss: Sally Donovan. I hate that everyone seems to hate her so much…and calling her a ‘whore’, or a ‘cunt’, I really hate that.
She’s a cop. She weighed up the evidence as she saw it and came to a not unreasonable conclusion. And- as unpopular as this opinion might be- I can easily see why she would distrust and dislike Sherlock. Don’t forget, she’s a black woman in a profession still dominated by white men. She’s probably worked all her life to get away from people like him.
I LIKE HER OKAY.
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I love Molly Hooper- she is fabulous. I want a spin-off with her and Donovan.