three fannish things make a happy post
I have had a crazy week, full of accomplishment and CLEANING ALL THE THINGS. Details forthcoming; at the moment it is very important that I do the bullet-points version of reaction posts to the many and varied things I have seen between my bouts of doing things.
i. Inception! My non-spoilery thoughts are that it did basically everything that I expect a Christopher Nolan film to do (in both the positive ways, ie the effects, oh my heart the effects and also the Hans Zimmer score, and the negative ways, ie someone really needs to sit Mr. Nolan down and talk to him kindly about his women) -- so, because I knew what I was in for when I went in, I was free to just wildly enjoy myself. Apparently there is already a huge post of Inception resources for those of us who are fannishly inclined; I have not had time to take a look, but I am delighted with the sudden explosion of fanworks. And I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I already have a blank doc open entitled 'Ariadne in the Labyrinth,' which hopefully will soon be less blank and full of my Thoughts on Ariadne. (Spoilers: most of them are "dfkldsfjkfdfsd I LOVE HER.")
ii. Sherlock! SHERLOCK. To be honest, I flat-out adored it. I understand that, among other things, our main characters are still all white guys, and that Moffat is doing most of his bad bits of writing women without doing most of his good bits, and that does knock my squee down to bearable levels. On the other hand, the little nods to canon have seized me by the heart and won't let me go, and -- as I was processing at some length with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
oliviacirce -- the Sherlock/John dynamic gets me where I live. Because, you see, Jeremy Brett of the Grenada series is my quintessential Holmes, and Jude Law of the new film is my quintessential Watson, but these two guys, this particular Sherlock and John, are my quintessential Holmes'n'Watson, these two mad, fucked-up, brilliant people who are actually capable of understanding each other.
I know a lot of people thought that the possibility of gay was textually brought up in order to be dismissed and made into a running joke, and I can see how that might happen, but from where I'm sitting, it genuinely hasn't happened yet. I really did read those scenes as John being bewildered at the suggestion because they'd only just met, and the scene in the cafe particularly as being less 'Straight man pretends to be okay with living in enlightened times but is actually quite glad his new flatmate is basically asexual' and more 'Man who genuinely doesn't give a damn one way or another is startled into asking if something is going on and is relieved to find out that they're both goddamn terrible at this social interaction thing, so maybe they should go solve crime.' And I do ship them. I ship them with quite a bit more expectation that they'd be functional in their dysfunction than I assume of most Holmes/Watson permutations. So yeah, I adored it.
Additionally, I've noticed that the vague suggestion that Benedict Cumberbatch (IS THAT NOT THE COOLEST NAME EVER BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH) should perhaps play the Twelfth Doctor. I ignored this suggestion because I am too busy loving Eleven to go around casting Twelve. However, someone on my flist -- I am sorry that I do not remember who you were! because your idea is fucking brilliant -- proposed that perhaps Cumberbatch should, instead, play Eleven's Master. And now I am completely weak in the knees, because I couldn't think of a single good candidate before, and I think he'd be perfect. He can do the weird young/old thing that Matt Smith does; he can do that calm, worrying sort of crazy; and he's just as odd-looking and of a comparable enough age to do a fantastic foil. If this doesn't happen now I will be a wee bit crushed.
iii. White Collar! This week's was charming without being memorable; it had a fun A-plot, but not even a fraction enough kinky subtext to get me jumping up and down and clapping like a seal, the way I often do. I'll be glad when show-time catches up with the end of Tiffani Thiessen's pregnancy, because I suspect that everything would be greatly improved by Moar Elizabeth.
Incidentally, USA filmed White Collar's panel at ComicCon. From it I have learned that Marsha Thomason (...and perhaps the whole cast, IDK) ships the OT3, that I am possibly a bit in love with Marsha Thomason and Tim DeKay, and that hopefully after episode six there should be Moar El. Also, the cast is adorable. <3
i. Inception! My non-spoilery thoughts are that it did basically everything that I expect a Christopher Nolan film to do (in both the positive ways, ie the effects, oh my heart the effects and also the Hans Zimmer score, and the negative ways, ie someone really needs to sit Mr. Nolan down and talk to him kindly about his women) -- so, because I knew what I was in for when I went in, I was free to just wildly enjoy myself. Apparently there is already a huge post of Inception resources for those of us who are fannishly inclined; I have not had time to take a look, but I am delighted with the sudden explosion of fanworks. And I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I already have a blank doc open entitled 'Ariadne in the Labyrinth,' which hopefully will soon be less blank and full of my Thoughts on Ariadne. (Spoilers: most of them are "dfkldsfjkfdfsd I LOVE HER.")
ii. Sherlock! SHERLOCK. To be honest, I flat-out adored it. I understand that, among other things, our main characters are still all white guys, and that Moffat is doing most of his bad bits of writing women without doing most of his good bits, and that does knock my squee down to bearable levels. On the other hand, the little nods to canon have seized me by the heart and won't let me go, and -- as I was processing at some length with
oliviacirce -- the Sherlock/John dynamic gets me where I live. Because, you see, Jeremy Brett of the Grenada series is my quintessential Holmes, and Jude Law of the new film is my quintessential Watson, but these two guys, this particular Sherlock and John, are my quintessential Holmes'n'Watson, these two mad, fucked-up, brilliant people who are actually capable of understanding each other. I know a lot of people thought that the possibility of gay was textually brought up in order to be dismissed and made into a running joke, and I can see how that might happen, but from where I'm sitting, it genuinely hasn't happened yet. I really did read those scenes as John being bewildered at the suggestion because they'd only just met, and the scene in the cafe particularly as being less 'Straight man pretends to be okay with living in enlightened times but is actually quite glad his new flatmate is basically asexual' and more 'Man who genuinely doesn't give a damn one way or another is startled into asking if something is going on and is relieved to find out that they're both goddamn terrible at this social interaction thing, so maybe they should go solve crime.' And I do ship them. I ship them with quite a bit more expectation that they'd be functional in their dysfunction than I assume of most Holmes/Watson permutations. So yeah, I adored it.
Additionally, I've noticed that the vague suggestion that Benedict Cumberbatch (IS THAT NOT THE COOLEST NAME EVER BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH) should perhaps play the Twelfth Doctor. I ignored this suggestion because I am too busy loving Eleven to go around casting Twelve. However, someone on my flist -- I am sorry that I do not remember who you were! because your idea is fucking brilliant -- proposed that perhaps Cumberbatch should, instead, play Eleven's Master. And now I am completely weak in the knees, because I couldn't think of a single good candidate before, and I think he'd be perfect. He can do the weird young/old thing that Matt Smith does; he can do that calm, worrying sort of crazy; and he's just as odd-looking and of a comparable enough age to do a fantastic foil. If this doesn't happen now I will be a wee bit crushed.
iii. White Collar! This week's was charming without being memorable; it had a fun A-plot, but not even a fraction enough kinky subtext to get me jumping up and down and clapping like a seal, the way I often do. I'll be glad when show-time catches up with the end of Tiffani Thiessen's pregnancy, because I suspect that everything would be greatly improved by Moar Elizabeth.
Incidentally, USA filmed White Collar's panel at ComicCon. From it I have learned that Marsha Thomason (...and perhaps the whole cast, IDK) ships the OT3, that I am possibly a bit in love with Marsha Thomason and Tim DeKay, and that hopefully after episode six there should be Moar El. Also, the cast is adorable. <3
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No but really, I do want all the fic that makes it make sense. I am going to write all the Ariadne fic that makes it make sense! And you are going to write all the Cobb/Mal? Or something?
PS, have you heard of the ring theory? IDK if I buy it, but I also don't know if I don't buy it because I want Cobb to be screwed.
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Huh! Well . . . I think it's very interesting, but I also think it's kind of bullshit. I mean, I don't think Nolan intended it to be an easter egg that would people would see and work out, exactly. And I don't think it was his totem, that's bullshit. I think possibly it was there to confirm that the ending was reality, if people wanted to see that. NOT THAT IT MATTERS, as the ending was clearly NOT reality. Nolan obviously thought it was open-ended, but really either way is so wildly full of holes that it makes no sense.
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P.S. I will fight you to the death re: women issues in the movie. Mal is the only character who's interesting or fleshed-out at all.
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And absolutely Mal is the only character who's interesting and fleshed out! She also happens to be dead. It is all very headachey.
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But she doesn't function as such for 90% of the film. Nearly all of it is dreams in which she's alive and flashbacks in which she's alive. It's not the same as a dead female character we never meet or see.
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GODDAMMIT SCOTTWORTH, WHAT IF WE AGREE ON SOMETHING. WE MIGHT BRING ABOUT THE APOCALYPSE.
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