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

[crotalus-atrox.livejournal.com]

Now that sounds like an enviably lovely day. Particularly this bit:

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

"Oooer," I believe, sums up my thoughts.

[cutselvage.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! I'm glad you like it. :D Um, via the neighbours? Did I put the wrong address on it?! *baps self*

And that was quick, too. I'm in awe of Australia Post, who generally suck in the 'getting things sent quickly' department. :)

[biascut.livejournal.com]

I have MANY RANTS to RANT about Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Anachronism.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Word.

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.

[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.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

No, the address was fine, it was the postman who was wrong!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Hee! Sadly, the Holmes adpatation was all a bit too modern for its own good. Everett made a rather good Holmes, nicely cruel and cynical, and there was some nicely suggestive interaction between him and Watson, but the plot was a bit weak and there was some ill-advised attempts to make things a bit more modern and racy. Didn't work. But still - I did see The Incredibles, whihc was very funny indeed!

[crotalus-atrox.livejournal.com]

Ah, pity that. Well, good thing I didn't seen it. My disappointment would've been loud and possibly ranted about on livejournal.

The Incredibles was a great movie, I thought. It's very well done, and Pixar always does a good job with their characters.