Cimorene

here follows a kind of essay. hang on. :)

well, i watched some of the other, less fabulous film versions as a child and read a few of the stories. i heard of the slash, hm, a few years ago, and then i finally got around to reading the complete works last summer and went looking for it in earnest after. i enjoy viewing everything through slash goggles; i don't think romantic attachment is necessarily written into canon. but that True Platonic Love which renders two people more important to one another than any other thing or person may be to either... is quite close to romance, really. the dividing line is slender, and either interpretation seems perfectly plausible.

the same is true of brett and hardwicke's holmes and watson; but brett brings a definite swishiness to holmes, and a chemistry with hardwicke (or with burke for that matter) which is at times electric. of course, physical chemistry does not equal romantic attachment, but it's also not an essential element of a close platonic friendship, if you follow me. it aids the slashy interpretation. (and watching brett's gorgeous, adorable holmes-mannerisms makes it more fun, too.)

i'm fairly confident i've read (or started) every piece of hw slash on the internet. my recs are at my recs page, not my journal--the holmes ones under other (http://www.rightthisway.net/cimorene/recsother.html).

and i just watched 'the devil's foot' tonight, review forthcoming. it contained what i felt was the slashiest single scene in written canon too, but the film episode heightened the emotional tension and the personal-relations-subplot between holmes and watson. i haven't seen--and my dad doesn't own on film--'the dying detective.'