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beccaelizabethI am watching Sherlock. Have watched first two of this year.
I'm somewhere between bored and annoyed.
I'd be vaguely interested in John and Sherlock if they were ever going to go anywhere, but there they are, archetypal, all done. There will be jokes about how everyone thinks they're boyfriends. Which isn't a funny joke. If true, unremarkable, and if not true, unremarkable. Make them boyfriends or don't, there's no joke in it.
There's been a joke about how Sherlock is Asperger's, which is stupid, because (a) we're not a joke and (b) he's far far far too good at reading social signals. He doesn't want to play by them, but he can read them like anyone's business. We have the opposite problem. And he can imitate them perfectly well when he wishes to, which we can't on our best day. Stop poking us. The label doesn't fit.
It's quite possible I'm not in the mood for detectives. I don't watch other detectives. But I will watch this and then delete it off the box.
I've also been vaguely applying cultural studies brain to try and get from the cases to the social tensions they deal with and rebox. But it's all splashy headline buzzword stuff, it's not actual lives, it's nothingy.
Bored now.
I'm somewhere between bored and annoyed.
I'd be vaguely interested in John and Sherlock if they were ever going to go anywhere, but there they are, archetypal, all done. There will be jokes about how everyone thinks they're boyfriends. Which isn't a funny joke. If true, unremarkable, and if not true, unremarkable. Make them boyfriends or don't, there's no joke in it.
There's been a joke about how Sherlock is Asperger's, which is stupid, because (a) we're not a joke and (b) he's far far far too good at reading social signals. He doesn't want to play by them, but he can read them like anyone's business. We have the opposite problem. And he can imitate them perfectly well when he wishes to, which we can't on our best day. Stop poking us. The label doesn't fit.
It's quite possible I'm not in the mood for detectives. I don't watch other detectives. But I will watch this and then delete it off the box.
I've also been vaguely applying cultural studies brain to try and get from the cases to the social tensions they deal with and rebox. But it's all splashy headline buzzword stuff, it's not actual lives, it's nothingy.
Bored now.
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Date: 2012-01-24 01:09 am (UTC)But I can see Sherlock as Aspergerian, since I have slightly similar experience: I learned how to mimic and interpret verbal social signals from a customer service course I took when I was twenty-eight. All of the sudden I could interact with people in realtime! (As long as it was over the phone.) Things that had baffled me my entire life started to make sense. Over the next few years I got plenty of practice with my new skills working as a telecommunications troubleshooter, and developed confidence in my ability to interact with frustrated, irate, and angry people (which had terrified me before).
Building on that, I started to match body language and facial expressions to the verbal cues I had learned. (FYI: it's outright amazing how often what somebody's trying to communicate has nothing to do with the words they're saying!) I'll never be as good at it as Sherlock, but I can pass for neuro-normative at work now -- and I can believe that an Aspergerian genius might deliberately set out to learn social skills, and succeed as well as Sherlock is shown to. That would also explain why he keeps finding gaps in his knowledge of socialization, and how it goes away when he's not paying attention or not bothering.
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