I found the time periods the least confusing part, actually! That made a lot of sense to me at the time, although I feel really unsure how much was just drug-induced surrealness and how much was meaningful to Sherlock's subconscious. I mean, I'm assuming that everything Moriarty said was from Sherlock's psyche, and the apparently endless angsting about his sexuality - everything that fits in with my headcanon for Sherlock, I'm now taking as canon because I choose to believe the Victorian scenes were all manifestations of things he can't address directly when he's not on drugs. But there is loads of other stuff in there which just seems random.
I didn't enjoy the Suffragette storyline at all. It was hard to empathise with the group of women when they were basically creepy vengeful murderers. I think it would have been so much more powerful to just show the inequality of the Victorian age (as they did, effectively, several times) and not try to be all moralising about it. Not have a MAN explaining how wronged women are. I feel quite irritated about that.
I didn't enjoy Fatcroft - I thought they could have nodded to canon / fanon without being so, 'oh, hilarious, a fat person eating cake'. I loved Mycroft trying to protect Sherlock. I'm very worried about Mycroft, though. It seemed like Sherlock's subconscious thinks / knows that Mycroft is going to die soon. And Mycroft was very clear about asking John to look after Sherlock. MY HEART.
I found the drug addict story completely convincing - it's definitely plausible from canon, and the druggy angst from S3 hurt so goooooood. This was even more heart breaking. I thought it was great, honestly. I can't believe he must have got high in preparation for saying goodbye to John *choke* There is so much potential for fucking with our heads here. The angsty fanfic is going to be EPIC! :DD
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Date: 2016-01-02 02:57 pm (UTC)I didn't enjoy the Suffragette storyline at all. It was hard to empathise with the group of women when they were basically creepy vengeful murderers. I think it would have been so much more powerful to just show the inequality of the Victorian age (as they did, effectively, several times) and not try to be all moralising about it. Not have a MAN explaining how wronged women are. I feel quite irritated about that.
I didn't enjoy Fatcroft - I thought they could have nodded to canon / fanon without being so, 'oh, hilarious, a fat person eating cake'. I loved Mycroft trying to protect Sherlock. I'm very worried about Mycroft, though. It seemed like Sherlock's subconscious thinks / knows that Mycroft is going to die soon. And Mycroft was very clear about asking John to look after Sherlock. MY HEART.
I found the drug addict story completely convincing - it's definitely plausible from canon, and the druggy angst from S3 hurt so goooooood. This was even more heart breaking. I thought it was great, honestly. I can't believe he must have got high in preparation for saying goodbye to John *choke* There is so much potential for fucking with our heads here. The angsty fanfic is going to be EPIC! :DD