January 2013 Media Thread

RobertLumley

This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. I find that exposure to LW ideas makes me less likely to enjoy some entertainment media that is otherwise quite popular, and finding media recommended by LWers is a good way to mitigate this. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please use the comment trees for genres. There is a meta thread for comments about future threads.
If you think there should be a thread for a particular genre of media, please post it to the Other Media thread for now, and add a poll to the Meta thread asking if it should be a thread every month.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please use the comment trees for genres. There is a meta thread for comments about future threads.
If you think there should be a thread for a particular genre of media, please post it to the Other Media thread for now, and add a poll to the Meta thread asking if it should be a thread every month.

way too many gay jokes.

Eh, I enjoyed the gay jokes. There was like... one an episode? Which isn't a lot when you remember there are only six episodes, but is a lot when you realize it's one an episode.

I love the way Sherlock's thoughts are shown

I really liked this when they did it, but I also thought they did it rather inconsistently. In some of them, they highlight all the clues, and you can draw the inferences (I chided Sherlock through my screen for not getting it in A Study In Pink); in others, they don't highlight them, and it's easy to feel like Watson (Hover for spoiler.).

(I chided Sherlock through my screen for not getting it in A Study In Pink)

I would like to know what he hadn't gotten - I just watched ASIP, but I had had the plot spoilered.

Obviously, to avoid doing the same thing to anyone else, rot13 or that link spoiler thing you just did would be a good idea.

EDIT:

Regarding consistency, IIRC they only show that he's checking "wet or dry" on the coat, not what he's trying to learn, but with the jewelry they show the deduction onscreen, even though he exposits it anyway. (I think I danced around the spoilers successfully there.)

3MixedNuts13y

There it is: Tally of Johnlock-teasing jokes in Sherlock, seasons 1-2. Nitpicking welcome. On average, an episode has a little over two jokes.

5MixedNuts13y

More than that, I think two or so an episode. There are three in the first (Mrs Hudson, Angelo, and Mycroft), and that's if you count Angelo's shipping of Johnlock and Sherlock's clumsy attempt to let John down gently as one joke. Oddly enough, I can't find a tally, so I'll keep one on my next marathon. The jokes are good - anything that causes Freeman to act one of his nine or so flavors of exasperation is automatic comedy gold. I'm just complaining about the frequency. [...] I think the mood dictates that. A Study In Pink is meant to show Sherlock's abilities, so we can exclaim "Fantastic!" in chorus with John, which is why we get both clue highlighting and expospeak. Baskerville is about Sherlock losing it a little, so making things less clear helps. I agree that the characters are sometimes dense. In Reichenbach, Sherlock misses or takes forever to get nearly all of Moriarty's hints, though a large part of it is probably playing dumb. (Moriarty's last move genuinely surprises him, but he didn't phone that one in.) My personal theory for his abysmal stupidity in A Study In Pink is that he starts out incapable of any thinking while distracted (e.g. by Anderson's face) and that improvement in this area is one of the benefits of having a sidekick-caregiver-sober coach.

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