{"id":214373,"date":"2014-04-26T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T09:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/26\/thescienceofjohnlock-violethuntress\/"},"modified":"2014-04-26T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T09:58:28","slug":"thescienceofjohnlock-violethuntress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/26\/thescienceofjohnlock-violethuntress\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Sherlock<\/strong> fandom has an awful lot of Sherlock<\/strong> haters in it, for the Sherlock<\/strong> fandom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

it\u2019s certainly the only example i\u2019ve seen where a significant number of hardcore, highly productive fans transformed into \u2018i fucking hate this show, i\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

i think if the show had been consistent backwards from S3 (ie, if S1 had been matched to S3), you wouldn\u2019t see this. certainly for myself, i\u2019d have had a look, gone \u2018nah, not for me\u2019, and moved on. but people who fell hard, hard, hard for S1 in a full-on fangirl love of my life kind of way, are not surprisingly having a hard time modulating their emotions as they try to disengage. i lived through the long, slow, miserable death of my x-files feelings, it was fine, the show worn me down gradually until i was able to throw my hands up and go on with my life. the sheer suddenness of this turn around is hard on the temper.<\/p>\n

it\u2019s perfectly normal for people in the holmes fandom to say they \u2018hate\u2019 the comedic-idiot reading of watson in the rathbone movies, for example. it doesn\u2019t mean they equate it with genocide or racism. i can say i \u2018hate\u2019 the moffat-gatiss characterization without implying it\u2019s somehow the largest thing on my mental horizon. but it is, at this point, my least liked adaptation of the canon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah. The fact is, S3 was a major departure from S1\/2 in a lot of ways – tonally, structurally, in characterization. They also retconned some things from S2 in the name of a \u201cclever\u201d Reichenbach resolution (like, say, most of Sherlock\u2019s emotional growth). Then on top of that, there are plot holes and things that just don\u2019t quite line up, a lot of threads left dangling, and unfortunately the subpar resolution of S2\u2019s problems has left a lot of us no longer confident that the writers will actually resolve those dangling threads.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t hate S3, and I don\u2019t hate the show. But I can totally understand why someone WOULD hate either or both now. There are definitely some things that leave me uneasy, and if they aren\u2019t resolved (or worse, pushed farther) in S4 I might lose interest in the show altogether. But I think it\u2019s entirely understandable why people would give up at this point.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh, I so agree with all of this.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For me (and possibly for a lot of long-time Holmes fans, though I can\u2019t speak for anyone but myself), the most important feature of any adaptation is the \u201cclick\u201d in the Holmes-Watson relationship. Change (almost) anything else, but if you\u2019ve got that totally satisfying\u00a0click<\/em> of two intelligent, emotionally needy, and adventurous people who get each other and light up in the other\u2019s presence, and you\u2019ve got the adaptation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(This is part of what the Elementary fandom is dealing with currently. I\u2019m a few episodes behind, but this element was there in season 1, and then in season two they progressively spent less and less time on Watson to the extent that she is so underwritten as a character that the\u00a0click<\/em> doesn\u2019t happen anymore. People are losing interest, which is incredibly sad because that adaptation has\u00a0so much potential<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

But back to Sherlock: I know for myself I was HOOKED by ASiP because of the strength of that\u00a0click<\/em>. Those boys are\u00a0glowing<\/em> in that hero-walk at the end. It\u2019s there again in neon lights at the end of TGG. It becomes harder to find in Series 2, where we get misunderstandings and Sherlock pushing John away; and then what so many cling to as the rooftop moment\u2014the tears, the involuntary laughter\u2014as evidence of the perfectly clicking relationship again even at this extreme moment, was, as pocupine-girl wrote, reconned by series 3. And then in Series 3 you have to go looking for that click<\/em> with a microscope. It\u2019s evident at the end of TEH, once in the train car, which is why the scene may be emotionally if not morally redeemed, then again in the hallway, even though it\u2019s nearly indecipherable, and then again in the Rizzla game. The saddest part of all: HLV has\u00a0none<\/em> of it. I\u2019m tempted to look at it this way: Gattiss likes his arguments and then his make-up sex<\/strike> scenes, while Moffat for some reason, after ASiP, is really enjoying writing jealousy and distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As many people have said before, I think it\u2019s possible to see this lack of \u2018clicking\u2019 as a ripple-effect of Reichenbach: a ripple of distance that precedes it and a long ripple of distance that follows. But in BBC Sherlock-timeline terms, that\u2019s 2\/3 of the entire show, without any promise that it will get back on track any time soon. So if what I\u2019m seeing on screen, instead of this intimate, sparking relationship is one that is simultaneously distant; at times physically and at times emotionally abusive; and at times so underwritten that we have to fill in the most pivotal bonding scenes (like hospital bedsides) ourselves, you have to bet that\u2019ll harsh my squee. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All true sadly but I just can\u2019t bring myself to hate on any of the Sherlocks. I am still hopeful for a better S4. There were parts of S3 I loved but most of it was disappointing after waiting so long. If they don\u2019t get that\u00a0click\u00a0<\/em>back, the show will start to fail because the Holmes\/Watson dynamic is what it\u2019s all about.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

thescienceofjohnlock: violethuntress: porcupine-girl: abundantlyqueer: abundantlyqueer: thescienceofjohnlock: The Sherlock fandom has an awful lot of Sherlock haters in it, for the Sherlock fandom. it\u2019s certainly the only example i\u2019ve seen where a significant number of hardcore, highly productive fans transformed into \u2018i fucking hate this show, i\u2026 i think if the show had been consistent backwards … <\/p>\n

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