Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

[kindkit]

That was awesome. It was fun and meta and twisty in the fashion of Moffat as his best, and had few traits of Moffat at his worst. There was Mycroft, who is my favorite thing about Sherlock, and there was Moriarty, who is my other favorite thing about Sherlock, and I enjoyed it tremendously.

Naturally the fandom is busy cutting it to pieces and yelling about OMG not enough Mary/Lestrade/Molly/seriousness/Real True Feminism/plausible explanations of Sherlock faking his own death. But I don't care.

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[legionseagle]

Phew! I was beginning to think I was the only one.

I particularly loved the multiply layered unreliable narrator joke and the pantomime elements; the exaggerated make up on the Dame (Bride) and the implausible moustache on the Principal Boy (and Moriarty as the Demon King).

And the set-piece cinematography; borrowing from Paget illustrations and Rathbone/Bruce films, frame by frame.

And Pepper's ghost! And the Five Orange Pips metamorphosing into the Abbey Grange, via a swing past the Bar of Gold in Upper Swandam Lane, Limehouse, and with a detour off to the Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax.

[kindkit]

I think there's a contingent of people who want Sherlock to be an exact, faithful modernization of book canon, and maybe the Victorian setting got their hopes up. I generally like the way Sherlock plays with the Holmes traditions, myself.

Sherlock has plenty of flaws, but the amount of vitriol and hatred people express for it doesn't make any sense to me.

[legionseagle]

Nor me neither, but I think it's partly people finding ambiguities frustrating; they'd like to know if people are good or bad and even if they've been told ("I may be on the side of the angels, but don't for one minute think I am one") that it's not that simple.