You! Me! Dancing!

[coyotesuspect]

Bullet pointing this bitch:

1) One of my crazy racist uncles is visiting. He spent like twenty minutes the other day trying to convince my dad that Obama was a Muslim. I turned up the volume on the soccer game I was streaming. On the topic of Islamophobia, the whole New York mosque debacle makes me want to cut someone.

2) My little sister started high school! And got braces! And joined the volleyball team! What is this why is my little sister growing up?

3) I've been up since 5:30 this morning watching soccer games.

4) My sleep schedule is the strangest thing ever. Sometimes I have a normal night's sleep. Sometimes I sleep in the afternoon. Sometimes I sleep in the morning. Sometimes I don't sleep at all. I blame familiardevil .

5) Earlier this month, scorpiod1 wrote me Bela/Henriksen apocafic AU for the spn_hetexchange . It is perfect, and exemplifies exactly why I think these two would be such an interesting match. SPN het OTP. ♥

6) Speaking of fic exchanges, I have my gift for spnrarepairs to wrap up. I have 4,500 words of fic written and the front cover and song selections of an accompanying mix done, but now I have to push through to the end. Ugh.

7) Holy shit it's raining. THAT OFFICIALLY MEANS SUMMER IS OVER. D: Except I still have a month till school.

8) On the topic of school, I'm flying back to Chicago a week and a half early. Which means I have to figure out who's couch I'm crashing.

9) I just realized I've been doing numbers when I originally said bullet points. Huh.

10) I think my laptop is going to get fixed soon.

And now for something not in list format! I watched the first two episodes of that new Sherlock show on BBC, which is apparently the Next Big Thing in fandom, and my thoughts are below.


This show is Boring. As. Fuck.

Which is both strange and disappoint as I'm a sucker for these kinds of [odd couple] + [murder mystery] = syndication for life! type shows.

Granted, the plot isn't much. The plot is never much. But, in the two episodes I've watched- each of which was over an hour long- they've failed to set up any kind of series or season arc which would draw me in.

If you look at Supernatural- which, I admit, is by no means a master of it's own arc- you had at least three hooks to pull you in for the long term by the very first episode: 1) Where is dad? 2) Who or what killed Mom and Jessica? and 3) Will Sam and Dean be able to fix their relationship.

Here, we have: 1) Who is this mysterious M that's funding this Chinese smuggling ring and does he have any relation to this mysterious Moriarty who's .... bribing cab drivers to murder people by ripping off the Westley vs. Viccini death match in The Princess Bride?

And, obviously, anyone with even a passing acquaintance with Sherlock Holmes is going to know the answer to that.

Moving to a micro level, the plots within the story haven't been impressive either. Despite each episode being over an hour long, nothing really happens, and they don't make you care enough about the victims to really care if the murder gets solved. Which is fine, I don't care about the murders on Psych. I watch Psych for the chemistry between the leads.

Which brings me to the most damning reason Sherlock is Not a Good Show: the leads, and their chemistry, or lack thereof.

Sherlock Holmes is annoying. Not just in this version, but in every version. He's arrogant, cold, and a know it all. He's probably schizoid. And, yes, this version's Sherlock is probably more annoying than most with his constant whines of, "How does it feel to be so stupid? How strange it must be to be in your little mind." We get it Sherlock, you're smarter than us. But there are ways to get around that annoyingness!

In the stories, which I've only read a few of, admittedly, Holmes is always tempered by Watson's writing. You seem him through the lens of someone who is fond of and admires him. In the recent Guy Ritchie movie, RDJ gives him pathos and charm. He's still an arrogant know-it-all, but you very much get the sense that he finds his intellect incredibly isolating. He understands how humans work, and yet he can't manage a simple relationship. Which is why Watson leaving to get married is so appalling to him; he is literally losing the one person in the world who he has an actual relationship with.

I know it's not fair to demand that this actor be Robert Downey Jr. But he needs to bring something to the table to make Sherlock more palatable or at least empathizable. And he doesn't do that.

As for Watson. Watson is just... bland. You know there's something wrong when Watson is being threatened at gunpoint and I can't bring myself to care whether he lives or dies.

And together, they fight crime! And are annoying and bland.

Finally, and to wrap up this epically long whining, the whole gimmick of this show is that it's a modern retelling of Sherlock Holmes. But so far, that just seems to be: Holmes and Watson with... CELLPHONES. They haven't managed a real sense of how placing the Sherlock Holmes story in a modern environment affects the story in any tangible way. To a certain extent, there's no reason why it would. Holmes's genius is deduction, which is low tech by nature. (Though, how much do I love the whole "WET" "BLOOD" "RANDOM OBSERVATION" word bubbles that pop up when Sherlock is examining something? A lot. And by "love" and "a lot," I mean I laugh my ass off.)

And if you're going to modernize it, modernize it. Make one of them a woman! Or a black guy! Set it in California and have them stalk seedy adulterers (which is what most PIs do).

Oh wait. That would be Psych.


Bitchfest over, I have an icon meme from like... two weeks ago.

1. Reply to this post with the words WESH WESH WESH and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee

These are from kiwiana

1)
made by raelala || text: other: colbert sodomy, pol: colbert // it's unamerican you see

I don't know what episode the quote is from, but it amuses the hell out of me. And it's appropriate for so many different occasions. Mainly occasions which have to do with gay sex, which is a lot when it comes to fandom.

2)
made by betcg2 || text: stock: gay sex // sex isn't love but it sure is fun

I really like the intimacy in this picture. That, and the implication of things to come, is what makes this really hot. Nom nom nom tension and slow burn.

3)
made by morbid_girls || text: spn: bela kiss kiss bang bang // leave a beautiful corpse, darling

I fucking love Bela. She's fierce and smart and her own person. I hate her backstory, but I thought she was a great character and foil for the Winchesters. And the cropping and text on this icon are perfect.

I miss her. ):

4)
made by iwantpie || text: spn: charles the prophet needs a beer // and so do I, really

I really like the coloring on this icon. And the text. Fandom often makes me feel this way *g* Also, beer > other alcohol. (Except vodka.)

Oh god. I am so classy. *facepalm*

5)
made by peculiargroove || text: rp: queen elizabeth 1 (redheaded bamf) // virgin
who can't drive

Have I talked about my immense love of Queen Elizabeth 1? Because it's immense, and I've had it since childhood. Badass redheaded woman? Sign me up.

I have a weird fascination with her dad too. When I was like ten or eleven I went through a Tudor obsession and read everything I could about them. So when I found this icon, I had to have it.

6)
made by vibrantnotions || text: hp: welcome home mr. moony

REMUS/SIRIUS TRAGIC OTP FOREVER.

Ahem. I spent most of my time in HP fandom reading Marauders fic. So this icon makes me sad. But in a good way. ♥ MWP+L + LYF


Surprise!11) I've been reading sarcasticindiefucks for like an hour, and now my internal monologue is in hipster monotone. Goddamn.

evenmoresurprise!12) *sigh* One of my guy friends who everyone thinks I should date/thinks I am already dating called me up and asked me if I wanted to go out for Thai. After we went out for Indian recently. Yes, but I swear to God these better not be dates.

.endtransmission.

pee ess: [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and I want to know who you would cast as Mercutio. We've already got James Franco for Benvolio. Also: Mercutio/Benvolio. You ship it.