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mwagneto · 3 months

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sherlock & co. review from an insane person (me) coz this is like. the 25th? sherlock adaptation i've checked out so ofc i have opinions on everything ever. and ik ppl who work on indie podcasts browse tumblr sometimes so just in case you work on this DON'T click keep reading, this post is not for youuu shoo. thanks x

ok so far it's like. fine? which is lowkey sad coz i wish it was smtg i really liked but it hasn't gripped me yet which is a shame but yknow. early days. i'm giving it time since it's only 15 episodes so far

my main issue is like. i really wish it wasn't so obviously influenced by bbc but it just so clearly is which is a shaaame like it's better than bbc in every aspect but yknow. not a high bar to clear. like it kinda feels like they liked a lot of things abt bbc and set out to fix the bad parts (h&w friendship being nonexistent, the mysteries being shit) but just kept the rest? in some places keeping things that were invented by bbc which is. baffling tbh

i'm not really picky when it comes to h&w personalities like i think it's fine to just do whatever you want w them, i think it's really fun when an adaptation gives them different personalities than what you're used to but, and this is where it feels far too bbc-ish for comfort, i just don't like it when sherlock is a cunt for no reason? like. he's not a mean person he's only mean in bbc coz moffat thought house md was cool and ripped it off. can we stop making him mean pleeeease 😭 he's just some guy..................

h&w relationship wise it's like... ok so i tend to go into adaptations with a fully clean slate so like i never let my general attachment to them influence how i view them in specific adaptations, the work itself needs to sell me on both the characters and the relationship and like... here neither of those really happened yet which makes me sad coz i think by now it should've but i'm giving it time. at least they're friends and i like that watson is useful for cases/knows things holmes doesn't sometimes coz thats like. such an essential element to sh stories for me and a loooottt of adaptations tend to just completely forget it so that's a win but idk if anything they're too tame? like i dont expect a romance but they can't just be casual friends they need to be bat shit crazy about each other. to me. but like maybe that'll develop over the rest of the podcast we'll see

kinda related to that point but case-wise i think holmes is a bit too ahead of everyone else sometimes which isn't inherently a problem but it does once again smell of bbc which like. noone should ever emulate moffat writing don't do that 🙏 god bles. but i've been able to solve every case along with/before the mcs which is like. thee point of mystery stories for me so yea i really like the stories themselves so far, especially the way they manage to make them solvable even without visuals or narration. OH and i almost forgot but i rly like the soundtrack, i love it when sh soundtracks have a heavy emphasis on violins coz. yknow

howeverr i am on my hands and knees begging them not to give watson a girlfriend tho like please oh myfffucking god . obvs watsonlock doesn't usually factor into my enjoyment of adaptations given that like. y'know. out of the hundreds out there theres only two where either of them is even gay so it's not something i expect nor require but like. to me it is essential that these two ppl are insane abt each other and don't really have anyone else, definitely noone important. like even the rdj movies got this despite ritchie's obsession w the 2 men 1 woman dynamic so idk why i'm constantly having to wage a war against random unnecessary romances for either watson or, god forbid, holmes. when the only interesting relationship either of these men have is with each other. that one granada holmes quote about them choosing not to include mary coz holmes and watson dont need anyone else etc etc. like i seriously dislike it when they introduce anyone else like cmonnnnnn thog dont care

anyway tldr. i guess if asked to pick a short description i'd say. promising? i hope it's gonna be good in the long run. the way they do mysteries is already something i like so. i hope they keep that up and i hope the h&w relationship evolves into something i enjoy coz so far i'm like. i can see the bones of smtg i'll potentially like but it's not there yet. but also like. this is an indie production i'm listening to for free so ion wanna rip into it these are mainly just what i liked/disliked based on the preferences i developed with this one quick trick (grow up completely insane abt sherlock holmes -> consume every adaptation that you can get your paws on -> no profit)

#i left out a lot coz i didn't wanna make it ten kilometres long but this is most of it ig #i also have a lot of issues w how modern adaptations depict his addiction problems but that's a different post #sh stuff #sherlock holmes #sherlock & co #also im not putting it on the tierlist yet but i will eventually #it's too short for now i wanna see how it plays out before i judge it #sh reviews

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rueria · 3 months

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readers and writers (literally just me rambling about whatever, also kinda personal)

the more time passes by, the more i feel that i'm more of a reader than a writer but unlike kdj or mnkm i don't have my personal writer who painstakingly writes stories tailor-made exactly for me so instead i suffer with these ideas in my head orz

"just commission stuff" it's not the same, also i'm scared bc what if i dont like it even tho it's great bc i'm rly picky sghdjsks

anyway, readers and writers. fsr i just recently realized the romance of the connection between a reader and a writer, bc of orv and hshm. bc it's usually like, reader and character, or writer and character right. but like. the innate romantic nature of storytelling yknow? scheherazade extending her life by a day each night she tells a story, and charming the king all the while. people have been telling and taking in stories for as long as humanity has existed.

it's like ughh. like i cringe a little at myself for being addicted to hamilton back then (i still kinda am tbh) and there's a lot of lines i could point out but these specific verses from burn still have got me by the throat:

"you and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless"

"you built me palaces out of paragraphs. you built cathedrals"

"i'm rereading the letters you wrote me. i'm searching and scanning for answers in every line, for some kind of sign"

"you and your words, obsessed with your legacy. your sentences border on senseless"

and then later in who lives, who dies, who tells your story:

"i try to make sense of your thousands of pages of writings. you really do write like you're running out of time"

like. writing as an act of love. reading as an act of love. writing hidden messages in the black of the ink and the white of the paper, and sometimes there's nothing there, but reading can give that nothing meaning anyway.

the power of words, man. the desire to communicate and be understood. aghsjdks

stories as sustenance. i remember reading a story of a girl who literally lives through stories, by eating them; i should reread that, i don't think i finished it.

stories made solely for one person. a writer and a reader with the wall of a story between them, the one-sided communication through the words written on that wall. in a way, using that wall makes it easier to communicate with another person than directly talking with them face-to-face.

maybe that's the specific reason why AI used for writing and art just gives me this dread (among many other reasons). the way of communication that i know best would become a lot more meaningless. i'd have to actually talk to people.

i've always loved stories since i was a kid. i've been reading for as long as i can remember. i spent more time with stories than with real people. it didn't matter how shitty it was, how long it was. if it was a story, i read it. because someone wrote it. comics, tv shows, movies, artpieces, music. there's always a story, and behind it, there's a person.

am i making any sense, probably not. idk. i don't really know what this is or how to end it. uh, anyway, writer-reader dynamics will probably always get me. there's probably a lot more out there that i just haven't seen bc as much as i say i read a lot, i really don't. not enough lol.

#shut up eri #i... don't know what this is #a disorganized jumble of memories and thoughts with a bit of self-reflection i guess

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