silentauror's Blog, page 137
May 29, 2020
totallysilvergirl:
@silentauroriamthereal @annecumberbatch...
@silentauroriamthereal @annecumberbatch @bakingsherlycakes @ben-locked
You know our only rule here in the batchbattle tag:
ALWAYS REBLOG THE CUMBERBOOTY
It’s illegal not to
babyanimalgifs:
You didn’t need a video of an otter eating some...
You didn’t need a video of an otter eating some lettuce but here you go
Au contraire, I definitely needed this!
Sherlock behind the scenes
thelostsmiles:“Our 13 yr old, Ben, loves being an uncle. He’s absolutely enchanted with Emily and...
“Our 13 yr old, Ben, loves being an uncle. He’s absolutely enchanted with Emily and could cuddle her all day (except when it comes to nappy changing, then he quickly finds something else to do). […] Their wives will be the lucky ones.”
Ahhhh my heart!!
milfiepumpkin:“I told you there’s enough space on the couch for...
“I told you there’s enough space on the couch for both of us”
(surprise, surprise! never drawn before anything like this… *coughs* one day I can make a book of this fanarts)
May 28, 2020
We’re really at this point of the dystopia, huh
We’re really at this point of the dystopia, huh
27,400 words! We are GETTING there, folks!!
27,400 words! We are GETTING there, folks!!
northernstardust
replied to your post “So, a question about Mary inspired by your recent post. I...
replied to your post “So, a question about Mary inspired by your recent post. I know you…”
Thank you so much
for such an thorough answer! I have to agree, she is not likable at
all, she is not interesting and she is so damn inconsistently
written! Like you said, she is supposed to be so smart, yet she
marries John, who is relatively famous by his association with
Sherlock and has a public platform. She does it while being on the
run and in hiding. Doesn’t John put up his wedding photos on his
blog?
2/3 Also isn’t she even a little
bit worried about Sherlock finding out who she is? Is she stupid then?
Reckless? Or maybe she has some other motivation, for example, she loves John
too much to refuse him. Except seeing how she treats him, she really doesn’t.
Well, maybe she has some other villainous motive. Except she doesn’t, she is
actually good… The result is a wreck, obviously.
3/3 I think the only viable way to
make her a memorable character and not to destroy the show’s main dynamic was
to write her as a villain.
***
Finally replying properly!
Moffat and Gatiss have never been
hugely hung up on consistency, which is something I find irritating in general.
Gatiss once sort of rolled his eyes and essentially said that people who wanted
them to tie up all of their plot holes and loose ends wanted “pablum”, which is
somewhat insulting. This fan base is a particularly intelligent one, and
wanting solidly plotted writing is not a flaw! I could say a lot more about
that, but I won’t.
Overstating Mary’s intelligence
really bothers me. In the ACD canon, the only person who is smarter than
Sherlock is Mycroft. I can accept that. I’ve liked the way they’ve contrasted
Sherlock’s intensely overthought, yet brilliant processes with John’s ability
to see a direct point A-to-point B connection that Sherlock sometimes misses,
like the TBB when he thinks of just taking a photo. That works so well and
shows so much how John brings in an element that Sherlock is missing and needs;
it’s a very balanced partnership between them. But then they suddenly bring in
Mary, who is smarter than John, smarter than Sherlock (“I’m not John; I can
tell when you’re lying” – ugh), can hack into secure secret service databases
on a cellphone in under ten seconds, is smarter than Mycroft and also maybe
worked for him at some point, but also worked for the highest bidder, is a
crack shot (who nevertheless missed Sherlock’s actual heart, lol) – blah blah
blah, Mary Sue to the nth degree.
And yet, what kind of professional
assassin doesn’t think to maybe NOT wear her signature perfume to threaten
someone in her ninja outfit????? That’s either rank stupidity, or else it’s ego
– as Sherlock states in the first episode, it’s the downfall of genius (“genius”)
to want to get caught. Did Mary want to get caught? I would argue not; she was
willing to commit actual murder to keep John from making an informed decision
about her. Conclusion: stupidity. Then there’s her “I can’t have you and
Sherlock hanging off my gun arm” – yet John outwitted her, easily. They were
leagues ahead of her. And yes, as you said, John is justifiably famous through
his partnership with Sherlock, whose fame Mary likes to downplay. She obviously
assumed that Sherlock would never have a clue who she was, because she
obviously undervalues his intelligence, yet his VERY first deduction about her
caught that she’s a liar. On top of that, if Mary actually worked for Mycroft,
or he at least knew who she was, how was Sherlock never going to find out??
Also, why tf didn’t Mycroft ever think of maybe mentioning it??? Ugh. My
pragmatic conclusion is, just like with Eurus Holmes, they weren’t actually plotting
this out in some amazing, genius masterplan from ten years beforehand; they
were adding as they went without checking for continuity and consistency. Lazy
writing. They’re good writers – but they’re horrendously lazy. Every single one
of their end-of-season cliffhangers has resulted in an irritatingly
tongue-in-cheek cop-out “solution”. Their “there’s something that no one has
caught” thing re. Reichenbach was the bouncy ball that Sherlock used to stop
his pulse temporarily, yet I’d read that theory dozens of times by then. Mary
is not as smart as they think she is (certainly not as smart as SHE thinks she
is!), and the fandom is vastly more intelligent than they realize.
You said “I think the only viable
way to make her a memorable character and not to destroy the show’s main
dynamic was to write her as a villain.” I agree. It would have followed through
logically on what they started with. Where they tripped up, in my opinion, was the
moment of having John decide that he didn’t want to know anything about her,
that he’d rather live with the lies forever, and then taking her back. That was
inconsistent on John’s part, too, given how protective he’d been of Sherlock in
the past. Forgiving someone who hadn’t asked for forgiveness after having
attempted to murder Sherlock is a lot worse than someone calling him a weirdo,
and yet here we are. I could go into a rant about heteronormativity and how
there are no consequences in Moftiss’ world if the perpetrator is a woman, but
that’s a rant for another day, and one that I’ve already ranted before. As is
much of this, but there it is. :P
totallysilvergirl:
lestranqe:
THE SHIRTS OF SEX, SEDUCTION AND...
THE SHIRTS OF SEX, SEDUCTION AND TEMPTATION.
@bakingsherlycakes here it is, coming around again! @annecumberbatch @silentauroriamthereal @ben-locked @jolieblack @jobooksncoffee
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Don’t worry, one of those buttons will pop off one of these days and shoot you in the eye for me, lol
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