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posted by [personal profile] rivers_bend at 09:39pm on 10/01/2013 under ,

I have been watching and wholly enjoying this show since the premiere, but I will admit it's been more for the characters and the actors than for the crimes and storytelling. I felt like tonight they got the whole package going on. But I have to admit that I did, for a while there, think that they had cast Vinnie Jones as Moriarty, and I just couldn't. I could not. I am so glad that that was a particularly ridiculous red herring. And I think the only reason I believed it at all was because of the nature of the cases in the previous episodes. I actually doubt it was a long con, but if it was, kudos to the writers.

Also kudos, again again, to Lucy and Johnny, both of whom manage to play understated emotion BRILLIANTLY.

in conclusion, JOAN, WHAT ARE YOUR SWEATERS. JUST. WHAT.
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posted by [identity profile] no-detective.livejournal.com at 05:45am on 11/01/2013
OMG CAN WE ALSO TALK ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT IRENE FAKED HER OWN DEATH SOMEHOW??? 1) There was no body, just the blood; 2) Moran did not kill her; and most importantly 3) I cannot stand the thought that any adaptation would fucking FRIDGE Irene Adler. Especially an adaptation that I'm growing to love more and more with every episode!

Also, "what you do is amazing" - and both of them MEANT IT. Also also, JOAN STAAAAAAAYED.

*flails in your general direction*
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posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 05:52am on 11/01/2013
;dkjfals;dkfj YES WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT. I definitely want more Irene story, and would LOVE it if they didn't just use her to get Sherlock to be emotional.

THEY DID BOTH MEAN IT. And fucking hell, that look on Joan's face, where she was riding the line between believing him and wondering if he was maybe mocking her, but without ever looking like she doubted herself because of that. And the way he was acting like a TOTAL CHILD and she didn't pander or bend, she just carried on doing what she needed to do and letting him have his strop. GOD I LOVE HER SO MUCH. And I also loved that they put the scene in with her therapist, because I felt like that made it clear that yes, his breakdown was part of her decision to stay, but it was also a decision she was making for herself for her own reasons.
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posted by [identity profile] no-detective.livejournal.com at 06:01am on 11/01/2013
Ahhh, I loved the scene with the therapist! Because Joan is so freaking cool and genuinely TOGETHER, and she's also a person who's chosen a life of no permanence - each new client means a new place to live, a new relationship that has to end in a given time, a new project that she commits to completely but then moves on. It's like... very profound, meaningful temp work because she can't really do commitment. EXCEPT NOW SHE WANTS TO. d;fhs;dfkha;fh; i love her SO MUCH <33333333
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posted by [identity profile] rivers-bend.livejournal.com at 06:13am on 11/01/2013
I wish so much that there was a universe in which I was REMOTELY cool enough to even contemplate dating the goddess Lucy Liu, but as there is not, I shall just be utterly in love with Joan Watson from afar (and through the whole fiction/RL barrier). She is awesomely together, in her own fucked up way. and I really like that they show us the ways she's fucked up (her inability to stand up to her mother, her not having really gotten over the whole surgery thing, the little ways that Watson is fucked up in every incarnation), but she is never weak because of that. She is very human and complex and interesting as a character. And she is interesting in ways that are not direct foils to Sherlock's interesting ways. I keep comparing this show in some ways to CSI NY, and Mac and the character played by Sela Ward whose name I have trouble remembering, and I love her, and I think she's the best thing to have happened to that show in ages, but she is just exactly opposite of mac in pretty much every way, except that they are both smart. But I feel like she is there to be a mirror to him. And I know that Watson functions differently in some ways in relation to Holmes in original canon, but idk. I just love the relationship between Joan and Sherlock.
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posted by [personal profile] desertport at 06:51am on 14/01/2013
I LOVE Joan's wardrobe so much. I want all her clothes.

And I agree, they both really bring it with the understated emotion. I really liked Holmes' repetition of Joan's words to him, such a tender, quiet moment.
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