Black is the color of my true love's arrow

[sovay]

And despite going to sleep on a dystopia, I dreamed about a nonexistent case of Sherlock Holmes in which the subject of a possible kidnapping turned out to be a hermaphrodite who was the avatar of a Hindu god, glimpsed by Holmes at the end of the story in their full divine splendor. fleurdelis28 says this should be the plot of the next movie. I can't really argue; I'd buy tickets.

Comments

[sovay]

I'd probably be annoyed if myths and magic suddenly became obviously true.

I object to myth in Sherlock Holmes when it's done stupidly—yes, Young Sherlock Holmes, despite your lack of the actual supernatural, I am looking at you—but I don't have a problem with deduction and transcendence in the same story.

(On the other hand, it annoyed the hell out of me that they gave a rational scientific explanation for all of the stuff going on in Sarah Waters' Affinity -- there, I wanted the possibility of magic.)

The only Sarah Waters I've read is Fingersmith—what's with Affinity?

[weirdquark]

You know, it's been so long since I've read it, that I don't remember exactly. Just that it seemed like there was mystical stuff going on, and then at the end, it was like, no, actual real world explanation! There was also betrayal going on, so maybe it was supposed to be part of that.

[sovay]

Just that it seemed like there was mystical stuff going on, and then at the end, it was like, no, actual real world explanation! There was also betrayal going on, so maybe it was supposed to be part of that.

Eh. It might just not have worked. That kind of ending has to be done brilliantly in order not to disappoint; and not everyone can write "The Hound of the Baskervilles" or "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."