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1. Jeebus, Cumberbatch, I enjoy chocolate martinis. I do not need aversion therapy; it does not constitute a problem. Please address this issue in future installments of Being Benedict Cumberbatch. Maybe in the upcoming season of Sherlock you can fall tragically off the lip of a chocolate fountain, and then Doctor Watson can rescue you, if you know what I mean.
2. Speaking of Martin Freeman, I have a working theory that the particular thing James McAvoy is good at is similar to the thing Martin Freeman is good at, which is to create in viewers this weird unshakeable pre-logical conviction that what you're seeing onscreen is A Real Person. It underlies the "character" layer, if you will - clay under fired lacquer - and does sort of bleed over between roles. I was thinking last night about the baffling-ness of Trek RPF and how the lead actors in AOS are really, really not like the characters they play**, but in XMFC... I'll have to think more about this. XD Anyway, this leads me to the obvious point of difference between McAvoy and Freeman, which is that a Martin Freeman character would have had a VERY different recovery from The Letter Mishap. I mean, up to where Briony interrupts them and it all spins to hell in a handbasket, I was sitting there like, is it just me or is this guy doing really well? That was an EPIC-level save, dudes.
3. EDIT -- forgot to ask: it is normal that there are a couple of fairly long scenes entirely in French, right? It's not that my copy is missing subtitles? XD;
4. EDIT2 -- the more I ponder the plot, the more I realize to my dissatisfaction that LORD PETER WIMSEY COULD'VE SOLVED THIS BITCH.
** Actually? Shatner is more like AOS!Kirk, and Pine is more like TOS!Kirk. I have no theories.
1. Jeebus, Cumberbatch, I enjoy chocolate martinis. I do not need aversion therapy; it does not constitute a problem. Please address this issue in future installments of Being Benedict Cumberbatch. Maybe in the upcoming season of Sherlock you can fall tragically off the lip of a chocolate fountain, and then Doctor Watson can rescue you, if you know what I mean.
2. Speaking of Martin Freeman, I have a working theory that the particular thing James McAvoy is good at is similar to the thing Martin Freeman is good at, which is to create in viewers this weird unshakeable pre-logical conviction that what you're seeing onscreen is A Real Person. It underlies the "character" layer, if you will - clay under fired lacquer - and does sort of bleed over between roles. I was thinking last night about the baffling-ness of Trek RPF and how the lead actors in AOS are really, really not like the characters they play**, but in XMFC... I'll have to think more about this. XD Anyway, this leads me to the obvious point of difference between McAvoy and Freeman, which is that a Martin Freeman character would have had a VERY different recovery from The Letter Mishap. I mean, up to where Briony interrupts them and it all spins to hell in a handbasket, I was sitting there like, is it just me or is this guy doing really well? That was an EPIC-level save, dudes.
3. EDIT -- forgot to ask: it is normal that there are a couple of fairly long scenes entirely in French, right? It's not that my copy is missing subtitles? XD;
4. EDIT2 -- the more I ponder the plot, the more I realize to my dissatisfaction that LORD PETER WIMSEY COULD'VE SOLVED THIS BITCH.
** Actually? Shatner is more like AOS!Kirk, and Pine is more like TOS!Kirk. I have no theories.
