posted by [identity profile] violetisblue.livejournal.com at 10:52pm on 27/12/2009
"I don't get it. That's a whole plot thread we just drove away from right there."

So business as usual, then. Good luck to everyone who still thinks this is all going to come together in some exquisitely complex Five-Year Plan in the last episode (right about when Godot returns from over the yardarm, I guess), I have a feeling they're gonna need it.

"There is a disturbed part of me that wants Jeff Bridges to play Moriarty so that I can weave crack!theories about how this Holmes!verse is actually the Iron Man movieverse in a parallel dimension, but that part of me rarely has good ideas."

If someone out there isn't already working on fic where Downey's Holmes is actually also Tony Stark then I simply don't know fandom like I think I do. :-D
Edited Date: 2009-12-27 10:52 pm (UTC)
 
posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 10:21pm on 28/12/2009
Good luck to everyone who still thinks this is all going to come together in some exquisitely complex Five-Year Plan in the last episode

At least it leaves plenty of good-sized plot holes for decent fanfic writers to fill in...? Yeah, that's the only way I'm seeing this ending. A 75-minute long nonsense parade followed by years of fix-it fic of varying quality and motive, just like Journey's End and Last of the Time Lords and Doomsday and probably Parting of the Ways but I don't remember back then produced. Except I'm so burned out on the characters I don't know if I'll even want to read it.

If someone out there isn't already working on fic where Downey's Holmes is actually also Tony Stark then I simply don't know fandom like I think I do.

If there is any way to make Pepper Potts secretly some sort of time-traveling Irene Adler I may just have to break out the good crack. Surely there's a plot device somewhere I could use.
 
posted by [identity profile] violetisblue.livejournal.com at 05:31am on 29/12/2009
"Yeah, that's the only way I'm seeing this ending. A 75-minute long nonsense parade followed by years of fix-it fic of varying quality and motive, just like Journey's End and Last of the Time Lords and Doomsday..."

Just think how senseless Friday's episode is going to be, AND he has to work in both the regeneration AND all the cameos of apparently almost every last goddamned person who's ever been on the show (though, in fairness, who didn't pine nightly for more Midshipman Frame after VotD?--oh, God, Rusty). Yeah, skipping with a lighthearted light heart.

"Except I'm so burned out on the characters I don't know if I'll even want to read it."

I'm sick to death of everything RTD!Who-related, including all the characters like Donna I used to just love. I'm hoping to God we're done forever with the era of dragging back every last companion and guest character every fucking fifteen minutes because I want a change, a real change and a fresh start. Though if I hate it, as noted, I can just start with "Unearthly Child" again and take it from there.

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