Day of the Boxes
Dec. 26th, 2004 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
louiseluxI sincerely hope that you (and family and friends) are all safe and well. If anyone has been affected by the earthquake, you're in my thoughts.
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lierdumoa made me laugh. This story about Goku becoming sexually aware has some really nice insights into his character. It's Sanzo/Goku, with some Hakkai/Gojyo hints along the way.
cimorene111 - just to let you know I'll get back to you either later on tonight or tomorrow morning with the beta!
icegemini - my Saiyuki wall scroll arrived via the neighbours!! *hugs* It's brilliant, and HUGE and I shall hang it on the wall and stare at them all for hours.
It's been a relaxing day - Return of the King on DVD, The Incredibles at the cinema, chocolates, sherry and lots of lying down. Also - UK viewers, don't forget about the BBC Sherlock Holmes adaptation with Rupert Everett and Ian Hart at 9pm. *settles back with yet more sherry and chocolate*
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lierdumoa made me laugh. This story about Goku becoming sexually aware has some really nice insights into his character. It's Sanzo/Goku, with some Hakkai/Gojyo hints along the way. cimorene111 - just to let you know I'll get back to you either later on tonight or tomorrow morning with the beta! icegemini - my Saiyuki wall scroll arrived via the neighbours!! *hugs* It's brilliant, and HUGE and I shall hang it on the wall and stare at them all for hours.It's been a relaxing day - Return of the King on DVD, The Incredibles at the cinema, chocolates, sherry and lots of lying down. Also - UK viewers, don't forget about the BBC Sherlock Holmes adaptation with Rupert Everett and Ian Hart at 9pm. *settles back with yet more sherry and chocolate*
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Date: 2004-12-27 12:10 am (UTC)I really don't know where to begin.
For a start, mostly he didn't behave anything like Sherlock Holmes. I can't imagine him happily revealing the contents of his mind to a roomful of constables, talking them through the crime, in fact, he's notorious for not telling anyone anything until the final denoument. All of the police procedure seemed very self-conciously modern to me, like the director was deliberately trying to give it an up to date feel. They even had a case notice board with things pinned to it! It was all a bit Silent Witness and I just couldn't believe it. What's more, I couldn't see Holmes touching all that stuff with a barge pole, or willingly involving himself with the police like that.
Date-wise - from the telephones and psychoanalysis and Lady Wossname smoking I'm guessing they set it 1900-1910. That's fair enough I think, as Conan Doyle did carry on publishing Holmes stories until quite a while after that.
To me it seemed like a fanfic that starts well and then gets so many little details wrong that you give up in frustration. Hmph. I didn't hate all of it as there was some fun Holomes and Watson byplay, but on the whole it was disappointing.