I never know what to title posts like these

I'm busting ass to get Amaranth & Ash turned in before I go off to residency at the end of next week, and that means writing lots of sex scenes.  And writing lots of sex scenes means spending plenty of time on 4chan.  That's were I stumbled across these, though apparently they are from Warren Ellis. 

I really want to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It looks slasherific, an impression that's been confirmed for me by my friend JJ, who's seen it already and loved it. Another friend of mine hated it. She said it's nothing like the books. I don't care.

Comments

[Vidensadastra]

Oh my God, those are fantastic!

And the movie is definitely slasherific--but also more m/m/f-friendly than I had expected going in! It made me a little bit glad I've never read the books, because that meant I didn't have to hate the movie for not being faithful to them. :)

[Angie]

It's different from the books in some ways, but it also follows canon in a way some people don't recognize.

The actual puzzle/mystery part is weak, and people who love Holmes stories for the clues and logic and figuring stuff out are probably going to be disappointed.

But a major aspect of the movie which is being snarked is actually canon, and that's the more action-hero Holmes and competent, kick-butt Watson. It's said in several stories that Holmes is very competent with his fists, and with a form of martial arts I forget the name of, but which was actually current in Victorian England. Watson was in the army -- as a doctor, but not someone who kicked back and treated the occasional patient. Holmes was able to guess in the first story that he was an army doctor recently back from Afghanistan because he had a military bearing, was tanned, and had an injury; he'd been out there in the sun, running around and getting shot at, so it's not at all a stretch to suppose that Watson could handle himself in a fight, or be competent with a gun.

Some of the classic Holmes movies has convinced many people that Watson was an incompetent idiot; Nigel Bruce's Watson in particular has quite a lot to answer for. That's what non-canon, though; Doyle's Watson was never a fool. And given that the original stories were narrated in the first person by Watson, it makes sense that he'd have downplayed or outright ignored both sex and violence, because that's how Victorian gentlemen were. We can't assume that Holmes never got into a major fight, nor that either of them never got laid, just because Watson never described either event explicitly in his chronicles of their adventures. :)

Angie