In a critical review of The Abominable Bride, Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff made a smart point about the narrative problem Sherlock’s astounding cleverness poses. “[Moffat’s] protagonists have a tendency to become strange, alien gods after a few seasons. They’re the ones who figure out the puzzle every time,” VanDerWerff writes. “Sherlock Holmes is the smartest and best. He is the only one who can save us.”

http://www.theverge.com/2016/¼/10704192/sherlock-the-abominable-bride-review

@ladyvean - Okay, for some reason tumblr won’t let me reply to a reply, so here’s weird formatting.

I thought it was… very cute.

For the last few episodes, Sherlock has been starting to feel to me like an AU. Which sounds really silly: of course it’s an AU, it’s a modern-day AU, I kind of specialize in those.

But it’s an AU which is forgetting where the characters came from, and who they are. 

The charm of an AU is that the characters are who they are, and we get to see how they fit into a different world, an unusual world that shouldn’t contain them very well. We get to see how they’re shoehorned in - or, even  more interestingly, how they fit as if they’ve always been there.

And that’s great as long as I still feel like they are those original characters… but I’m not sure I know who these particular people are anymore.

The source material is starting to feel like a distant memory - a source of in-jokes. And that’s probably fine if one is super-into Sherlock, whether it be BBC Sherlock or pure fine-grain Doyle. But for someone like me who’s just read a few of the novels and thought this was kind of a neat idea, it’s starting to feel like I’m watching a show that casts the same actors, but isn’t about the same characters anymore. 

I’m not sure I signed up for that.

[iztarshi]

Inspired by various tumblr posts.

Humans quickly get a reputation among the interplanetry alliance and the reputation is this: when going somewhere dangerous, take a human.

Humans are tough. Humans can last days without food. Humans heal so fast they pierce holes in themselves or inject ink for fun. Humans will walk for days on broken bones in order to make it to safety. Humans will literally cut off bits of themselves if trapped by a disaster.

You would be amazed what humans will do to survive. Or to ensure the survival of others they feel responsible for.

That’s the other thing. Humans pack-bond, and they spill their pack-bonding instincts everywhere. Sure it’s weird when they talk sympathetically to broken spaceships or try to pet every lifeform that scans as non-toxic. It’s even a little weird that just existing in the same place as them for long enough seems to make them care about you. But if you’re hurt, if you’re trapped, if you need someone to fetch help?

You really want a human.

[roachpatrol]

you know fantasy dragon soulbonding fic i want more of that where the humans are the dragons, like, we’re huge, we’re old, we’re scrappy as hell, and if you are small and cute enough we would be delighted to carry you around on our back 

[friendlytroll]

holy shit that’f b amazing. 

also imagine an alien being like

‘I THINK A HUMAN IMPRINTED ON ME THEY KEEP HANGING AROUND ME’

[dendritic-trees]

But imagine aliens that only form social bonds under very specific circumstances having to deal with humans though:

Like, they will bond with a group, and if they move they just bond with a new group while still talking to their old group.  They will bond with other species. They encourage their children to practice bonding with inanimate objects.  They can have more than one mate in their lifetime.  Sometimes they have more than one mate simultaneously.    Once they bond with you they’ll start trying to bring other humans they are bonded with to bond with you.

If you stand around them long enough they’ll probably just wander over and try to pat you, this is how they bond with other species.  You may have accidentally bonded with a human without knowing it.

Seriously they will bond with anything.

[pretzel-log1c]

@jq-piccadilly

[argylsocks]

addendum:

“Help the human in our party bonded with a grafknap and now they want to bring it with us”

“I don’t see what the problem is.”

“We’ve already got like five of them, and then there’s the orlaps and vanghus.”

“krrrk sor krrkr going thr krrk -bula spike krrk”

[down-sizing]

“Companion Mar, how do you sustain these high levels of interpersonal relation?”
“Uh… hanging out, I guess.”
“Hanging out of what, exactly?”
“Sorry, that’s a human phrase used to describe spending leisure time in the general proximity of others for entertainment.”
“But we are very far from your past companions, and yet you have continued to express interpersonal relation to them, in spite of the lack of proximity.”
“Oh, well, I comm them now and then.”
“Interesting. So you posit that physical proximity and verbal communication are key to this relational anomaly?”
“I mean that’s part of it.”
“… great Glarbnack, you’re doing it right now, aren’t you?”
“Oh, come on, Kursp, we’ve been friends for ages, you know that!”
“No! Stop! I can’t believe you would - oh, Glarb, what’s the word? - vefriendle me without even asking me first!”
“Befriend. The word is befriend, Kursp.”
“Ugh, humans! Well I know I can’t stop you but at least try not to emote all over the place.”
“Sure thing, buddy.”
[Enraged squeaking]

[pilgrimkitty]

OMG THIS ONE IS FANTABULOUS

[cosmictuesdays]

Humans.

Will.

Pet.

Anything.

Just watched “The Abominable Bride”.

And.

Oh, my God, Moriarty on his knees sucking on a gun barrel, can we not, can we not?

The penis metaphors were thick in that one.

No pun intended?

[arachniclsgrip]

i dyed my hair

[constablejello]

Odo’s delated lines from Children of Time.

manicpixiedreamalien asked:

The people making these choices are government officials, and there's always going to be people who feel different. Are there those with valid reasons against starfleet that aren't xenophobia, and what are they?

insignificantstrawberry answered:

PRElings (Permanent Residents of Earth) may resent Starfleet because government officials can have first pick of a person’s personal labour. Well, I mean not first pick, but they are able to take something in the name of the academy. This system can (and lately, does) result in shortages of cheese, wine, chocolate, designer clothing, seats to anticipated plays or concerts, or even special treatment for certain housing districts. PRElings see this as space-dwelling humans taking the best parts of their planet and throwing the rest in the trash after they’re bored of it. The older generation may even remember how quick some were to leave Earth behind after First Contact while parts of the planet were still radio active or on fire. Earth is a beautiful place in the late 24th century, but it’s all due to century of cleanup after two devastating nuclear wars.

[fictional-red-art]

Trekkie stickers!

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