My Reaction to Sherlock: Season One

This is totally irrelevant to the rest of this post but when we were in Vietnam, my dad casually told one of his friends that I was a "Yellow Banana". Cue my WTF face. I was all like, "did you just refer to your daughter as a bright yellow, tropical fruit?" But when I asked him later, he said it was because I was yellow on the outside but white on the inside. It took a while for me to process but then I laughed and said,

So. After much nagging from Tian, I finally got through Season 1 of Sherlock. Okay, "got through" makes it sound like such an ordeal or something but really it wasn't. Plus there were only 3 episodes so it's not like I had to slog through a whole bunch of filler episodes or anything like that.

I liked it but at this point in time, it is not a full-out, IMMA HAVE YER BABIES type of love. It's not the show; it's me. I've been feeling a strange sort of disconnect with everything I've watched recently. I can't seem to get through Season 4 of True Blood or bring myself to start the new series of Doctor Who. Oh wait, there was that one Korean drama I watched a few weeks ago... Answer Me 1997. It was literally the only Korean drama I watched last year but was considered by many to be one of the best dramas of 2012. If I find time, I might blog about it... or not, considering I have 6 tutor classes to take next week.

But I digress.

Episode 1 of Sherlock was great. I think. Hard to tell really since I watched THE WRONG PILOT. (Tian, you should have warned me. This is all your fault dammit). Episode 2 was kind of boring and also a bit uncomfortable to watch to be honest. It wasn't bad per se and I appreciated their efforts to include a bit of cultural diversity in the show but someone really needs to tell the writers that if they want to include Asian people in a storyline, they don't always have to include stuff like gangs, smuggling, ninja acrobatics, jade artifacts, teapot ceremonies, stilted accents and a weird Chinese lady trying to sell you a lucky cat in a seedy part of Chinatown, okay? (Read this article if you want a more humorous explanation of the "orientalism" of the 2nd episode. The word makes me laugh btw. Orientalism. Reminds me of Fantastic Noodles.) Plus the plot was kind of boring. Did I mention that? Third episode on the other hand was BLOODY FANTASTIC. Can't reveal any more because I might spoil it but jaysus, that ending.

And I love how the writers mess around with the undertones of Sherlock and Bilbo's John's relationship. But because I care for you guys, I'm going to have to warn youse not to type "Sherlock and John" into Google Images unless you're into some very, uh, overzealous, explicit fan art.

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John: I'm glad no one saw that.

Sherlock: Mmm?

John: You ripping off my clothes in a darkened swimming pool. People might talk.

Sherlock: They do nothing else. 

Like best quote ever or best quote ever?

To end this post, I'm going to post up a list of my predictions for Season 2 (which will most likely be greatly inaccurate and cause me much embarassment when I read over them after finishing the season). Here they are:

• Moriarty will continue annoying everyone in the second season with his strangely feminine, high-pitched voice. Oh, and with his evil and dastardly plans too.
• John Watson will receive a fatal injury and in the last moments of his life, will confess his undying love for Sherlock who will most likely say something like, "Emotions - such an unnecessary state of the human existence. I find that having them often clogs up my mind.".
• An important female character will be introduced. She is most likely going to try to seduce Sherlock who, as always, will remain oblivious.
• There will be an episode titled "The Immense Hyperbole". I don't know why but it sounded pretty cool in my mind.
• Ms Hudson is secretly Sherlock's long lost Grandma, posing as the landlady in order to keep an eye on her her grandson.
• Or maybe she's a secret spy working for Moriarty who aims to murder Sherlock bit by bit with poisoned tea.
• There will be more "ethnic-focused" episodes.
• There will be more episodes in which I find that my puny brain cannot handle all the clues and ,revelations so it will spontaneously combust.
• There will be more episodes which highlight London in all its glory and which will make me curse my parents for choosing for the wrong country to become a refugee in. JK. I luf Australia (most of the time).