Reichenbach (and broken backs)

[melannen]

Dear Sherlock fandom: Just to let you guys know, he's not really dead.

(No I haven't seen the newest episode or been spoiled beyond the title, I'm just being a brat. That one's even older than 'Vader Is Luke's Father.' But not quite as old as 'there's a flood, everyone dies except the MC.')

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When I lack the brain to do other things, I've been reading through Escher Girls and Boobs Don't Work That Way since somebody or other linked to them, and here are three things:

1. I want a superheroine called Escher Girl now. Who has super-flexibility, minor shapeshifting powers, and detachable body parts. And she should be in a comic book where all the other female characters are drawn realistically.

2. Is there a blog/tumblr anywhere that's the inverse of this - showcasing examples of mainstream comic book art where women look and move like human beings? Because I really need a palate cleanser now. Of course I'm starting to doubt that there are enough examples for that to work.

3. In a moment of weakness I thought to myself "okay, there's about a dozen tumblrs now that you check with some regularity, it might be nice to have them aggregated, maybe you should just get an account" ...and OMG people, when you have a dashboard, tumblr is even harder to use and uglier than it was before. I think I am going to forget I did that and keep checking them one at a time, thanks. *shudder*

Edit to note on this bit: I should say that there is a certain amount of disablism/body image enforcement going on in those blogs; it hits me because actually, my feet do look like I'm wearing high heels when they're at rest, and yes, I can bend my ankles like that painlessly, because I'm a toe-walker; and there are women with bodies that naturally do some of the other things people complain about in comic book art. Even if the body image you're enforcing is closer to reality, you're still excluding some people, and some of the language on those blogs does bother me. However: even women who do have bodies that can look like that aren't going to act the way the comic-books show it. I wear boots that give lots of ankle support when I'm going adventuring, personally...

Comments

[holyschist]

I still don't understand how chopping off the 15 seconds in which it is revealed that Sherlock is still alive would have made it any better. Surely that can't have come as a surprise to anyone. Ever.

I'm sure it would shock all the same people who were stunned, stunned in the theatre with the second RDJ Holmes, both when he went over the falls AND when he was campily revealed.

Sadly, I think the number is way higher than 136.

[kittydesade]

I still haven't seen that stupid thing in the theatre, which makes me a bit sad. I was looking forward to it, things have just been too chaotic lately.

It's also entirely possible I'm prejudiced from having devoured the whole series of stories when I was wee. But I'm sticking with my narrative inertia and the likelihood of most show-runners killing off their cash cow character. Well, one of them.

[holyschist]

Argh, wasn't thinking--I hope I didn't spoil it too much for you (not the falls obvs, but the "twist").

I tend to assume most shows will not kill off the main character, but I'm not sure most people think about narrative inertia that much.