Sherlock. No spoilers.

[pez]

25 minutes in, and already two mentions of gay. Interesting.

They've already paired Watson and Holmes 3 times.

............okay there is no point in counting anymore. XDDDD

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[jetsam]

It is fun :)

[jetsam]

OK, betting on a fandom?

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

YES. I think I'm already fangirling! /o/

[jetsam]

It gets better and better

The 'and for your date' comment... clearly there's a precedent

[storme]

Girlfriend not really his area, huh.

....Oh dear.

[jetsam]

...indeed

Same guy as does Dr Who. Knows his fandom

[storme]

Ah, I guess they've negotiated one we-are-not-asking-each-other-out moment. I forsee much reoccurance!

[jetsam]

3 or 4 times an episode would be my bet. They've already fielded the 'there's another bedroom upstairs... if you should be needing it'

[sinistera.livejournal.com]

WAIT. WAIT. WHAT IS THIS.

[storme]

Oooo and now the drugs stuff. Interestng!

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

New BBC drama. Modern day Sherlock Holmes. Titled "Sherlock". SO FAR IT'S BRILLIANT.

[jetsam]

Can I say I rather like the police?

[storme]

The writing is excellent I think; this sherlock is very much the sherlock of the books.

[jetsam]

I have to admit I've never really read the books, so I'll have to take your word for that. But it is good :)

[sinistera.livejournal.com]

I don't even

what

oh

I love you Brits.

[storme]

I wish they were using Baker St and not Gower St, though.

[jetsam]

This is where not knowing the canon is probably an advantage

[storme]

(And it's been a while since I read the books--and I'm no huge Holmes buff anyway. But this seems a lot more true to type than most adaptions I've seen.)

[storme]

Actually, that is more me knowing the street they're actually using *really* well.

(In their defense, 221B Baker St is really similar in look and layout to the place they're using (above a shop, vaguely similar architecture). But I can SEE Euston Road behind them in some shots.)

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

WATCH IT. IT'S BRILLIANT.

[sinistera.livejournal.com]

BBC One doesn't stream in the states. ):

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Surely this is what Bittorrent is for. >D

[sinistera.livejournal.com]

You are wise.

Oh. I was in Target the other day, and I was behind these two old English ladies, who were talking about how back in their day, they would go shopping with "their mums" after tea at 4 in the afternoon. In the most quaint accents I have ever heard. I could not stop listening even though I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about.

Yes. That's what we do in the States. We eavesdrop on Brits because it's hard to believe that your accents actually exist outside of movies.

[sinistera.livejournal.com]

I WAS ALSO UNAWARE THAT 'tea time' WAS A REAL THING.
I THOUGHT THAT IT ONLY HAPPENED IN MOVIES AND IN THE PAST.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

OH, YOU IGNORANT AMERICANS. TEA TIME DID AND DOES STILL EXIST.

THOUGH THE DEFINITION OF "TEA" VARIES DEPENDING ON WHICH PART OF THE COUNTRY YOU'RE IN. (YES, WE DO IT JUST TO CONFUSE YOU PEOPLE. :D)

[sinistera.livejournal.com]

GODDAMN
WHY DON'T WE HAVE TEA TIME
WE NEED AN OFFICIAL REASON TO BREAK IN THE AFTERNOON

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

YOU POOR THINGS. TELL ME YOU AT LEAST GET YOUR ELEVENSES.

[sinistera.livejournal.com]

... I don't understand your English.
What's an 'elevenses.'

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Right.

Tea in southern England = tea (+cakes/scones + sandwiches depending on how posh you are) at around... 4:30pm?

Tea in northern England = the main meal in the evening (what you and I understand as DINNER or SUPPER)

Dinner in northern England = meal in the middle of the day (what we usually call LUNCH)

Elevenses = like tea, a light snack between meals, but happening at around 11am. Because we need our cakes/biscuits (English ones)/chocolate bars/crisps at that time of the day. XDDD

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

YES, IT'S ALL PERFECTLY STRAIGHTFORWARD ISN'T IT.

[sinistera.livejournal.com]

.. so ... what I have learned today is that

1. Your Posh Level directly corresponds to the number of sandwiches and/or cakes/scones you have at tea time.
2. Northern Brits must either go to bed really early or starve at night.
3. Elevenses is essentially "second breakfast," which is what I learned from hobbits.

[semishade (from livejournal.com)]

Steven Moffat's comment: if Holmes was gay, he wouldn't fancy Watson.

I think they're rebutting, rather than teasing.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

At the current stage, if I was Holmes, I wouldn't fancy Watson either!

But, the potential... *rubs hands eagerly*

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

1. That's pretty close to the truth! Because the posher you are the more likely you'd have tea (or high tea, as you'd be fuck-all apart from eating... unlike the general masses who tend to be working and therefore not tea-ing!

2. They're simply... different. XD

3. You could say that. Although one'd imagine second breakfast being something much larger than an elevenses (which these days is usually a chocolate bar or something like that.)

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

I had that moment! "Hey that's UCH! And there's Euston Square! I've lived like fifty metres from there!"

[semishade (from livejournal.com)]

Personally I was smiling over the shaking hands/missing violence thing. Reminded me of someone else I'm fond of!

VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD!

[caleili.livejournal.com]

Lol, as a Scot, I resemble that remark, but it's too funny to confuse the poor americans who wander into this kind of conversation. Dinner time up here is any meal taken between 12 and 2, tea around 4, and tea time is around six and usually the largest meal of the day (so that's why we don't starve) but wait! That's not all... Supper is a mini-meal/snack taken just before bed, around ten or eleven (or whenever you go to bed).

As yuki said, PERFECTLY STRAIGHTFORWARD!

Re: VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD!

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Supper is confusing as well. XD

Re: VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD!

[caleili.livejournal.com]

Very :3

I imagine Holmes would be the kind of person to have tea at four... when he remembers. He strikes me as being very absentminded about the little everyday things. I bet poor Watson will end up tidying things soon enough, like the rogue socks probably already multiplying beneath the coffee table. XD