Day of the Boxes

[louiselux]

I 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.

Flying rec  - Non-Perishables by 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*

Comments

[rochefort.livejournal.com]

UK viewers, don't forget about the BBC Sherlock Holmes adaptation with Rupert Everett and Ian Hart at 9pm.

I liked Rupert Everett's queer Holmes. Ian Hart was rather eclipsed, though. But the story? Oh dear. It might have been good... except it wasn't. Too much emphasis on the sensational element of Holmes's cocaine habit and the sex crimes, and not enough on characterisation and period mores and detail.

Alarm bells started ringing when the snobby society lady didn't know where her daughter was after an argument (how likely was that in the Victorian/Edwardian upper classes?), and it all spiralled down from there.

Other anachronisms raced past me, almost too numerous to count and too boring to recount. Such as: the young women left in the morgue to identify her sister's body, while her father elegantly weeps in the next room (with Watson, incidentally, patting his back and going, 'There, there'??); or bereaved parents taking part in a reception for the king days later -- they would have scandalised everyone by not being in mourning for the next year, surely.

Holmes, of course, didn't take cocaine in the middle of a case. Nor would Watson have married that lady. They really needed a proper fanfic writer to devise a decent storyline for this.

Bleugh. But why has all the Christmas cheer gone?

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

There were so many little details wrong with it. The fact that snobby society lady also had a fag on was a bit off - also, yes, lack of mourning and the sister being shown the dead body.

Holmes, of course, didn't take cocaine in the middle of a case.

They will keep on doing this and it really annoys me, as thought they haven't read the books - it's supposed to distract him from boredom.

And another thing - 'Sherlock'?! He would never have let her call him that. I was fully expecting him to tell her quite bluntly to stop, but he never did.

And the plot was sadly lacking in interest, I thought.