{"id":127750,"date":"2015-11-10T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/10\/faetalities-recentlyfolded\/"},"modified":"2015-11-10T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:23:13","slug":"faetalities-recentlyfolded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/10\/faetalities-recentlyfolded\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

faetalities<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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recentlyfolded<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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willietheplaidjacket<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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johnwatso<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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faetalities<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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sherlock calling mycroft\u00a0\u201cblud\u201d was the most embarrassing thing. \u00a0if that had been a fanfic i would have closed out of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

so many things happen in this show that if it were a fanfic i would be like \u201cwhat the ever loving f\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2018If it was a fanfic I would have closed out of it\u2019 is the perfect summary for my feelings on TEH<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I find that \u201cblud\u201d line awkward as well, although I think that that was intentional. I assume that it was meant to balance John\u2019s awkward \u201cmate\u201d 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\u2026only 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2014something 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\u2019ve 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\u2019ll 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\u2019s 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\u2019t rewatch. <\/p>\n

I guess that\u2019s 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\u2019ve 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\u2019re now working with a beta and so you suck it up and persevere and while it\u2019s not your favourite fic ever, it\u2019s not terrible. But you\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

it was a joke but y’all went in \ud83d\ude30<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

faetalities: recentlyfolded: willietheplaidjacket: johnwatso: faetalities: sherlock calling mycroft\u00a0\u201cblud\u201d was the most embarrassing thing. \u00a0if 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 \u201cwhat the ever loving f\u201d \u2018If it was a fanfic I would … <\/p>\n

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