Tag: fandom

spacewifespock:

softjlc:

the most bizarre thing about this is that i don’t have anyone irl to share this with. i don’t think this is a ‘’normal’’ or acceptable thing to be devastated over in out society. i just cannot get myself to explain to like my mom or my casual friends, why it feels like my life has been torn apart, just because two men didn’t kiss on a tv show last sunday 

i think most of us are there honestly, that’s another tragedy of this whole thing, that we thought fandom culture was finally going to get taken seriously because we made a real scholarly effort to predict something and succeeded. that’s fucked up, obviously, because fandom should be taken seriously anyway. but yeah, that’s a huge loss and it hurts me a lot. 

I told my parents how bad the episode was. They know I run this blog, and that without the show I wouldn’t have been able to write me thesis on Inception. And even with that, they don’t really understand how devastated I am and everyone else is

atikiology:

also. seriously. say the BBC wants to prevent their most successful show from having a queer ending (which was, hypothetically, the plan from the start) so they go to mofftiss and say, hey, calm those gays down and make them straight, and mofftiss are like, well ok then, now that we don’t get to do what we wanted, let’s wreck our own show to the ground. 

i’m going to be honest and say that this scenario is complete nonsense to me. 

if someone took your own work out of your hands, instead of murdering it and doing all your characters a disservice, AND spitting the thing you initially wanted to achieve (in this case LGBT representation) in the face to make sure to rub it really in. you’d just refuse to do that shit.

you can’t tell me that someone can force Vertue, Moffat and Gatiss to produce and write something they hate and then have Cumberbatch and Freeman act it out, fully knowing that it’s the opposite of what they signed up for. It’s not like those people don’t have other career opportunities you know. They are some of the most popular and hyped writers, producers and actors of our time. Someone forcing them to run their own project into the ground, a project they poured so much love and devotion (and, as i used to think, hope for a revolution) into is fucking ludicrous. I’m sorry but. If it had been their plan from the start and someone had told them “you don’t get to do it” they would have said “ok fuck you goodbye you don’t deserve the best show of the 21st century anyway.”

nah i’m telling you. they’re dead serious about this. 

whymofftiss:

discosherlock:

the worst thing is i dont know how to just stop loving sherlock. like the episode itself i can get over but the entire show and these characters and what theyve gone through and the happiness and the love they shouldve gotten, that they deserved, means so so much to me and i. cant just turn that off even when i feel so goddamn cheated

i want to burn all my sherlock stuff and never watch it again…. but I like it. I love it. It was my life. How am I supposed to NOT watch it? I just don’t know anything anymore…

inevitably-johnlocked:

thepineapplering:

shamynay:

thepineapplering:

The Final Problem was a disgrace to the original ACD stories
A disgrace to the pastiches
A disgrace to the people watching “for the cases”
A disgrace to the casual viewers
A disgrace to women
A disgrace to Billy Wilder
Oscar Wilde’s name shouldn"t even be mentioned as the same time than TFP
A disgrace to the character’s arcs
A disgrace to the previous 12 episodes

Now, why would they write something that misses EVERY SINGLE APPEALING ASPECT OF THE SHOW

Not just two or three
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM

I’m sorry, because I’m clearly missing something, could you please explain why this episode was such a disgrace to all you listed above?

I got tired of waiting for your answer and I feel ranty, so here it is:

– to the original stories: I’ll give you two words: HANGING GARRIDEBS. You want sometig else? The dancing men being just thrown into a closing montage with no explanation. NONE.

– to the pastiches: the plot of this episode was supposed to MAKE HISTORY. Sherrinford comes crom pastiche. They turned it into a penis shaped prision (actually I would count that as a redeeming feature) and the sibling character had absolutely NO FUCKING ARC, NO DEVELOPMENT IN HER STORY. Is the WORST VILLAIN IN THE HISTORY AND I AM INCLUDING DOCTOR EVIL FROM AUSTIN POWERS. Fuck it, I’m including VIVAN NORBURY from TST.

– to the people watching the show for the cases: THERE WAS NO FREAKING CASE, MICROFT HAD HIS SISTER IMPRISIONED WHEN HE WAS 14? WHO DOES THAT? What was the case? Sherlock not remembering his sister? Him being lied to FOR FORTY YEARS?!? WHAT WERE THEIR PARENTS DOING?? Why did it escalate to such extra levels?

– to the casual viewers: people like Sherlock for the cool deductions, the beautiful cinematography, the thrilling plot that keeps people on the edge of their seats. None of this can be found in TFP. The deductions were lame. The cinematography lazy as fuck. The plot was insane and PREDICTABLE. IT MADE NO SENSE. I fell asleep the three times I saw the thing, one in RUSSIAN.

– to women: ok wow, just look what they did to poor Molly, they pulled a love confession out of her teeth, when she clearly said SHE DIDN’T WANT TO SAY IT BECAUSE IT HURT HER, TO ADMIT SHE LOVED SHERLOCK BEFORE. And it hurt Sherlock as well, to make her say it. Fuck the plot here, that was non consensual. That was AWFUL. And to Eurus?!? A little child with mental illness? Also she’s supposed to be a villain and got REDUCED TO BE A SISTER JEALOUS OF HIS BROTHER’S FRIEND IN A PLAYDATE WHAT’S UP WITH THAT

– to Billy Wilder; Mark GaHtiss said over and over again how he was inspired by Wilder’s adaptation, how much he wanted to make it right. In TFP Sherlock’s drug struggle is completely left behind, and the reason for it is not addressed either. What happened? A miracle cure? Billy Wilder’s big regret was not to make Holmes the character he wanted (homosexual, addicted to drugs because he was closeted). GaHtiss had the chance and said “not now, thank you”. A disgrace.

– The fact they even uttered Oscar Wilde’s name in the most hetero fucked up episode of the show should grant them jail time in Pentonville ( if you don’t know, Oscar Wilde was convicted two years in Pentonville for having homosexual relations)

– to the character’s arcs: Sherlock was supposed to change from a great man to a good one. Where is this good man? Did he really keep himself from having romantic relationships because HIS SISTER KILLED HIS BEST FRIEND?!? And even he DOESN’T EVEN REMEMBER HER, IT MARKS HIS ROMANTIC LIFE? Forget the fact he keeps being closeted by the writers. WHY IS HE DENYING HIMSELF FROM FEELING ROMANTIC LOVE?

And John, omg… We saw him taking control of his own life in TLD, refusing to be a piece in everyone’s puzzle and now he is on Nigel Bruce levels of bumbling Watson, he is just there, the not so bright sidekick, being pulled from one side to the other as a pawn…

– to the previous 12 episodes: those were MASTERPIECES. They excelled in every single aspect, always innovative, always surprising. You may not like the plot, the drama going on. But it was INTERESTING. The set design was superb. In TFP ee have a grey room painted with spongento give it texture.. A fakeass explosion where you can see THE GREEN SCREEN. The deductions didn’t have that gorgeous graphics, but some boring letters in the well scene. WE DIDN’T SEE ANYTHKNG GROUNDBREALING OR INNOVATIVE IN TFP. NOTHING WHATSOEVER.

Please note I never touched or mentioned johnlock, when the lack of any development in their FRIENDSHIP was terribly disconcerting.

TL,DR: TFP IS THE WORST THING I’VE EVER SEEN IN TELEVISION, AND I SURVIVED THE FINAL EPISODE OF LOST.

THIS ALL SHOULD BE FRAMED.

weeesi:

I’m thinking of my ol’ friend Graham Robb, who dedicated an entire section of his book Strangers to the idea that everyone implicitly knows Sherlock Holmes is gay – why are we still talking about it

I’m thinking of my ol’ friend Matt Cook, who included in his book a quote from a 19th century gay man relating to Sherlock Holmes through his realising own idiosyncrasies – the story of a man finding a role model, a man like himself in a story he once read

I’m thinking of my other ol’ professory friends, who’ve painstakingly put their names and academic reputations on the line to demonstrate how valid and vital queer readings of Holmes’ canon are

I’m thinking of my fellow fandom scholars, who’ve done the Work out of nothing for no one and in turn did something for someone and were harassed for it

It is too much to ask to be listened to, to be respected, to be heard – if nothing else, to be acknowledged!

Apparently so