Sherlock Holmes is not an actual person. No, really.

I'm fine with people taking a Watsonian approach to the stories. Works for fanfic, works for fun. But when they're trying to be serious lit crit talking about Doyle's works it do get amusing when they slip up and talk as if Holmes has his own opinions.

I know that's a natural way to type it, and a way of distinguishing between character and writer held opinions, it's just funny too.

... even if I have the exact same problem a lot. And a slight frustration since the Holmes in my head has changed to looking like Robert Downey Jr after many years as Jeremy Brett. It's like regeneration, only he doesn't know he did it, plus he's still in that slightly loopy phase from being so new.

My head is a weird, weird place.

On the plus side, I've narrowed down what I want to do the presentation about, and found some appropriate secondary reading and stuff. Also found some women doing police work in a story, searching women and also following them undercover. Which is much more interesting than all them heiresses, even if they never get names or meetings or screen time.

More Doctors = More better

Someone asked for recs for where to start watching Classic Doctor Who.

... my brain, it did crashed, for I want to rec everything ever OMG all the Doctors are the bestests!!! ... except for the movie with 8. I love 8, I really do, but... no.

Plus there's the massive does-not-compute moment where someone has never seen Doctor Who before. I realise these people exist, it's just... *blink* *blink*.
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... where could you actually start?
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Beginning when a Doctor is newly regenerated doesn't tend to work very well either. It does with 3 because they change the game straight away and 3 is his own self after he wakes up, but with 4 he's still changing ( Read more... )

Starting with a new companion may work better. You get to watch them meet the Doctor, so it's like being introduced again.
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Nope, it's no use, I can't think of where to start. Too many variables. Does not compute.


I'd give them my favourite shiny and hope.

So that'd be The Five Doctors, for starters, and then 7+Ace, maybe Battlefield so there's at least one character in common, maybe Remembrance of the Daleks because made of win. Or Ghost Light. Or The Curse of Fenric. Or... you know, a few.

But that's what I like. Figuring out what someone else likes is difficult.


... I'm pretty sure The Five Doctors is hopeless as an introduction. It's made of confusing. I just like it. Lots of Doctors and LOTS of monsters and puzzles and battles and winning right quick and all that politics bit where the Doctor is the best out of the Time Lords too. Even Time Lord Presidents, when faced with an impossible puzzle, think more Doctor = more better.