What's the point of a revolution without general copulation?

Now I can go read everyone's spoilery reactions.

Mostly, my own thoughts are just that I really liked the part where everything - but aside from that, one tiny thing that just struck me:

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Wait ... so, what happened?

I have never watched The Sentinel, but I know the basic premise. I've read a lot of Sentinel fusions with other fandoms (i.e., Steve is a Sentinel and Danny is his Guide! Sherlock Holmes is a Sentinel and Watson is his Guide! Derek Hale is a Sentinel and Stiles is his Guide! John Reese is a Sentinel and Finch is his Guide! Erik Lehnsherr is a Sentinel and Charles Xavier is his Guide! etc).

(not for nothing, but you could do a whole massive meta on fannish slash archetypes just by categorizing characters as Sentinels and Guides. But I digress.)

One thing that seems to be very common in these fusion stories is that the universe knows of, and accepts, the existence of Sentinels, and there's some sort of "Center" where Sentinels are treated for Sentinel-specific mental conditions, hooked up with Guides, etc.

But I'd always thought that in the actual Sentinel series, the existence of Sentinels was not generally known.

So, is this all fanon? The idea of Sentinels as generally known, Centers to treat them, and so on? Because if so, it's remarkably consistent across fandom fusions.

But right now, this is like an abusive relationship.

He insults and belittles her, and we're supposed to think it's funny and okay because he's so special, and she (long-sufferingly) takes care of him, and it's all fine in the end because eventually he tells her he does value her, and she's superior to an inanimate object.

However great it is that Watson is a woman, and a woman of color, they need to do better.

- which I am planning to watch and am optimistic about, I would watch the fuck out of this:

Except that it really wants to be a Festivid because it's that kind of source? Only I'm pretty confident that no one's actually going to request this source, so I think I'm just going to have to make the vid without any excuses.

And now, I'm going to watch Elementary pilot, because that is a thing I can do, because the internet is large and contains multitudes.

...work's been kicking my ass like whoah, and every now and then I fall into a funk where the political situation just seems so overwhelmingly, irredeemably hopeless than I can't even bother to post about it anymore, so... yeah.

But! In good news, I officially finished and submitted my vid for Club Vivid! Yay! ... and now I only have to wait four months before the world can see it. Woe.

Also? Office buildings where they take your picture at the security desk to put on a temporary ID badge? I am convinced it's some sort of psychological warfare, to demoralize you and put you on uncertain footing in advance of your meeting, so you'll just acquiesce to everything that's demanded of you.

Oh, oh! I should add that I enjoyed this vampire!Sherlock story.

Dammit.

(Yes, I do still rememeber fondly both - both! - of those TV movies from the 1990s where Holmes had been cryogenically frozen and then he was unfrozen in the modern world and picked up a female Watson. One of whom was, awesomely, Margaret Colin)

I finally watched Scandal in Belgravia, long after most people had posted their reactions so I know I missed a lot of commentary.

My short reaction is that for whatever reason, I found Holmes to be infinitely more tolerable this time around; he was grating on me by the end of last season. I couldn't exactly figure out why I was squicked by the ending but then Cesperanza articulated it. So there's that.