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petronia1) Hey, look! melannen wrote a story about Dr. Watson having a psychic wolfbond! (I woke up this morning and realized I was apparently extremely confused and attributed the story to the wrong author??) (I know this is kind of like, "I thought Dr. Watson was the psychic wolfbond," but the story addresses this.)
...This is ACD-flavour, but there are a helluva lot of animal soulbond stories in Sherlock fandom; it's what genderswap was at one point to ST:AOS. I don't really have an explanation. Or rather, I think genderswap makes a meta-point about ST:AOS, but maybe Conan Doyle fans are just prone to liking animal soulbond stories. It's one of the nicer things that could be said of a fandom, I feel. XD
2) The Honourable Schoolboy: TTSS is not at all in the same style as Le Carré's early novels, which didn't surprise me. It does surprise me that this one isn't in the same style as TTSS, because it's a direct sequel. But it's like the dude abruptly discovered The Satirical Omniscient (I am thinking of a 19th century writer, but I'd be bullshitting if I named one), and wielded it, unmastered, like a golf club if not a sledgehammer - not refined to an icepick yet, I mean - rambling on and on about "colour" characters I am not 100% convinced I ought to care about. They'll return later in the book... probably. Meanwhile, George Smiley is onto a phase I recognize with cold horror, namely that after you drop the bomb and turn in your report, they make you manage organizational change.
* Smiley actually buys into this, because he goes all Kate Beaton Pirate Nemesis and hangs a blown-up grainy surveillance photo of Karla on his office wall, which others find faintly unnerving. At the end of TTSS he and Ann get back together for like... three weeks... but then he abandons her for Karla, basically. You get this story via Martindale/The Satirical Omniscient so maybe it is BS, but... yeah. #nocomment
* Basically Le Carré rejigs his characters between books and pretends he doesn't. Guillam has been promoted to some kind of Greek god (and the only ppl who find this as funny as I do are book reviewers on Douban, predictably). Like, the Guillam in this actually feels like BC!Guillam. Also, mention of "the reptile fund"!
* Jerry Westerby, who is the sorta-main character, has also been rejigged (to be competent and not a hopeless lush, as far as I can tell).
* Ficcers should know that it transpires Bill Haydon had hidden microphones EVERYWHERE, including the senior staff dudes' lavatory. ("Typical Haydon flair.")
Anyway. Much of this takes place in Hong Kong (Tufty Thessinger is still alive in bookverse, if sidelined) and I'm kind of hoping it doesn't turn out to be the "Blind Banker" of the trilogy... but now that I've said it, etc.
Niggling movie details - in the sense of "I've ruined it for myself by watching the thing over half a dozen times"... but actually, I don't think I've ruined it. XD I won't be watching it again, though:
* It took me until rewatch #5 to confirm without a doubt that the school STUFFS THE OWL and mounts it in Jim's classroom. You are meant to notice this, because Smiley goes and takes a gander at it.
* And it was, what, rewatch #3 before I squared Bland whistling the tune from the phonetap?
* John Hurt's porcelain Union Jack bulldog figurines look exactly like John Hurt. Once one notices this, one is incapable of seeing anything else in this scene. (Who gave those to him?)
* There are two exits to the Circus (in movieverse; bookverse is quite different) - the turnstile with the gatekeeper that leads directly up the staircase, and the freight elevator that can't be called unless the person exiting closes it manually first. Except Bland and Guillam do trot off at one point without closing the door. That aside (maybe they are just dicks?), presumably the elevator is not an entrance, i.e. you can't get back upstairs directly from street level, because that would be ridiculous.**
But then...
How did Bill Haydon get his bicycle inside??? #superspy
** It would be ridiculous because that would mean movie!Circus was built to the exact same layout as the clerks' office in Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Naval Treaty". AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NAVAL TREATY.
melannen wrote a story about Dr. Watson having a psychic wolfbond! (I woke up this morning and realized I was apparently extremely confused and attributed the story to the wrong author??) (I know this is kind of like, "I thought Dr. Watson was the psychic wolfbond," but the story addresses this.)...This is ACD-flavour, but there are a helluva lot of animal soulbond stories in Sherlock fandom; it's what genderswap was at one point to ST:AOS. I don't really have an explanation. Or rather, I think genderswap makes a meta-point about ST:AOS, but maybe Conan Doyle fans are just prone to liking animal soulbond stories. It's one of the nicer things that could be said of a fandom, I feel. XD
2) The Honourable Schoolboy: TTSS is not at all in the same style as Le Carré's early novels, which didn't surprise me. It does surprise me that this one isn't in the same style as TTSS, because it's a direct sequel. But it's like the dude abruptly discovered The Satirical Omniscient (I am thinking of a 19th century writer, but I'd be bullshitting if I named one), and wielded it, unmastered, like a golf club if not a sledgehammer - not refined to an icepick yet, I mean - rambling on and on about "colour" characters I am not 100% convinced I ought to care about. They'll return later in the book... probably. Meanwhile, George Smiley is onto a phase I recognize with cold horror, namely that after you drop the bomb and turn in your report, they make you manage organizational change.
* Smiley actually buys into this, because he goes all Kate Beaton Pirate Nemesis and hangs a blown-up grainy surveillance photo of Karla on his office wall, which others find faintly unnerving. At the end of TTSS he and Ann get back together for like... three weeks... but then he abandons her for Karla, basically. You get this story via Martindale/The Satirical Omniscient so maybe it is BS, but... yeah. #nocomment
* Basically Le Carré rejigs his characters between books and pretends he doesn't. Guillam has been promoted to some kind of Greek god (and the only ppl who find this as funny as I do are book reviewers on Douban, predictably). Like, the Guillam in this actually feels like BC!Guillam. Also, mention of "the reptile fund"!
* Jerry Westerby, who is the sorta-main character, has also been rejigged (to be competent and not a hopeless lush, as far as I can tell).
* Ficcers should know that it transpires Bill Haydon had hidden microphones EVERYWHERE, including the senior staff dudes' lavatory. ("Typical Haydon flair.")
Anyway. Much of this takes place in Hong Kong (Tufty Thessinger is still alive in bookverse, if sidelined) and I'm kind of hoping it doesn't turn out to be the "Blind Banker" of the trilogy... but now that I've said it, etc.
Niggling movie details - in the sense of "I've ruined it for myself by watching the thing over half a dozen times"... but actually, I don't think I've ruined it. XD I won't be watching it again, though:
* It took me until rewatch #5 to confirm without a doubt that the school STUFFS THE OWL and mounts it in Jim's classroom. You are meant to notice this, because Smiley goes and takes a gander at it.
* And it was, what, rewatch #3 before I squared Bland whistling the tune from the phonetap?
* John Hurt's porcelain Union Jack bulldog figurines look exactly like John Hurt. Once one notices this, one is incapable of seeing anything else in this scene. (Who gave those to him?)
* There are two exits to the Circus (in movieverse; bookverse is quite different) - the turnstile with the gatekeeper that leads directly up the staircase, and the freight elevator that can't be called unless the person exiting closes it manually first. Except Bland and Guillam do trot off at one point without closing the door. That aside (maybe they are just dicks?), presumably the elevator is not an entrance, i.e. you can't get back upstairs directly from street level, because that would be ridiculous.**
But then...
How did Bill Haydon get his bicycle inside??? #superspy
** It would be ridiculous because that would mean movie!Circus was built to the exact same layout as the clerks' office in Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Naval Treaty". AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NAVAL TREATY.
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Date: 2012-02-17 06:24 pm (UTC)...where would I go looking for these Sherlock stories of which you speak? I've found quite a few soulbond+werewolf ones, and a couple Daemon-AU ones based on His Dark Materials, but I would love to find some more straight-up soulbonded animal fics in Sherlock.
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Date: 2012-02-18 03:50 am (UTC)Oh, also, satirical omniscient is probably Thackery. And it made me seasick when Thackery first used it until he too got the hang of it, which he may have by Vanity Fair. I've managed to forget that book completely.
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Date: 2012-02-19 06:11 am (UTC)Yeah, Thackeray is most likely whom I was thinking of - but I read Vanity Fair so long ago and remember so little of it that I hardly wanted to venture. XD