Wholocked wrote:

VivaCohen wrote:

Iwantthatcoat wrote:

Basically: Someone who does not feel primary sexual attraction, but can react sexually (in response). Somewhere in between a traditional asexual and a fully sexual person. A Demisexual usually needs to be tuned into a relationship before they feel sexual connections. They wouldn't look at a random person and go "wow that person is hot, I want to sleep with him."

.... I think I may be demisexual then.

Hahaha Ditto

ha I just read up on it and I kind of assumed everyone was this way. Like, I look at people and I think "well, they are very attractive to me." but I've never lusted for someone unless I was in love with them. I always assumed when people say they're lusting for someone that they're taking the idea that the person is attractive and combining it with the fact that they have a libido. Like, they're making a decision that the person is lust-worthy. I always assumed when people talk about being attracted to someone they mean they just find them attractive. Do they actually feel a sexual pull toward them? lol I'm sorry... my mind is just blown. Do people actually lust for people they don't know without talking themselves into it?

Anyway... I think Sherlock is a virgin. I don't think he ever dabbled or experimented. My reasons are far less clever than everyone elses but I'm basing this on the fact that the writers wrote Mycroft and Moriarty explicitly stating that he was a virgin. If anyone were to know his sexual history, it would be those two (that sounded weird) but really, it's true. They're great writers, and great writers don't put extraneous writing into the work. So they apparently wanted the viewers to believe Sherlock was a virgin. That's my take on it

Sam wrote:

VivaCohen wrote:

Sherlock84 wrote:

Even Cumberbatch and Gatiss are laughing.

Whaaaaat? Sheesh lol Yeah I assume there's some ashes on some mantle or some guy's body in the ground or an empty coffin or nothing at all but they stuck a gravestone up so I assumed the scene took place pretty soon after they put it up. Why is everyone laughing at me??? *cries* same ole, same ole

They are referring to: "I think he just pushes them aside or buries them out of necessity". The fact you chose "buries them" as the metaphor for his emotions is funny when the topic is Sherlock's grave site, not you idea

At least I think I'm right on this, haha

If you're right, then that was a bit slow of me. And I think you're right I completely forgot that I posted anything at all about his emotions!

besleybean wrote:

' buries them'?!  You made a funny!

"buries" him yeah lol Because its not really his body but they put a gravestone up Then they visited it. I made a funny? lol

I'm voting! I'm voting for Obama. I agree with his views, he's intelligent, and while he hasn't ended all of the world's suffering over the past few years, if you look at the facts he has done a LOT. Plus, Romney? I think not. Ever. Even if I was Republican. I am, however, a bit disappointed about how the first debate went.

tobeornot221b wrote:

Leaving behind his phone, his "physical" note to John can also been seen as a reference to ACD's The Adventure of the Empty House:

"No, Watson, I never was in it. My note to you was absolutely genuine. I had little doubt that I had come to the end of my career when I perceived the somewhat sinister figure of the late Professor Moriarty standing upon the narrow pathway which led to safety. I read an inexorable purpose in his grey eyes. I exchanged some remarks with him, therefore, and obtained his courteous permission to write the short note which you afterwards received. I left it with my cigarette-box and my stick and I walked along the pathway, Moriarty still at my heels."

Ooohhh, I like that idea.

ancientsgate wrote:

VivaCohen wrote:

I did, however, think it was very uncharacteristic of Sherlock to throw his phone on the roof when he jumped instead of putting it back in his coat or something. What's the point of leaving his phone on the roof, especially when it's filled with texts relating to murders and Scotland Yard lol

His phone would be SHER LOCKED  Seriously. No one except the most skilled hacker could get into it.

It was done for effect. His back to us, the watchers, perched on that awful edge, he said good-bye to John, started to stretch out his arms, and threw the phone down because he was done with it. Without it, no one could use its GPS to track him, wherever he planned to go. Without it, he couldn't use it and its easily recognizable phone number to make calls or texts. There's no way he could have used it again, paid the bills for its service, etc. So we got to see the very dramatic throw-down (if he's leaving his phone, he must really be going....) and he left that part of his life behind, as he had to.

He thought of everything else, he probably wiped the phone's memory (all except John's number on speed dial) before he ever went up on that roof anyway.

That makes sense.

monitaa wrote:

He must've.. probably in school.. He has strong opinions about women..likes to stay away from them.. so there must be some solid reason for that.. I think he's had a past.. maybe no sexual relationship...but jst a school/college crush or a gf..

I doubt that comes from bad relationship experiences though. I can't imagine him getting hurt by a woman. I'd think he'd just call her stupid and move on lol... I also can't imagine any woman remaining with him long enough to be in a relationship with him if he can't even manage to keep a flatmate. Maybe his strong opinion about women comes from the idea that women operate more from an emotional perspective than a mental one and he finds it very annoying.

Sherli Bakerst wrote:

Just saw this last night for the first and only  time and wanted to offer some impressions:

I was surprised at how it began; it was very different from what I was expecting.  I thought it would start off with how Viktor made the Creature and go from there.  And after his brief entrance, I then kept waiting to see more of Ben.  I thought his characterization of Viktor had a lot of Sherlock in it, and I kept finding references to Sherlock in many of his lines.  I thought the set design was amazing and also really liked the music; I could see how the Opening Ceremony for the Olympics had some of its origins in this production.  I thought Ben portrayed the mad scientist really well, especially as he spiralled downwards out of control and into complete insanity.  That's how I interpreted it, anyway.  Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature was great, the tragedy of his existence really came through.  I would have loved to have seen Ben play that role; oh well, sigh.

Now I have to read the novel.

I wish you could have seen Benedict as the creature! Every pair of eyes in the theater were fixated on the screen when I saw it and no one moved for the first 20 minutes of him writhing around on the ground when he was being born as the creature. The physicality was really amazing, which I think really helped him take the role too a whole other level.

I agree with you about the Olympic ceremony! The first half hour of the ceremony could have been taken from the play. Very much a good thing, in my opinion

Davina wrote:

I don't think this point has been raised here but it specifically to do with Sherlock's handling of the situation with Irene when she appears in the nude in ASiB. He seems to project his own awkwardness and bafflement onto John.

He says, " I don't think John knows where to look."

To which Irene replies, remember she is also very, very good at assessing people," He knows exactly where. Not sure about you...".

Sherlock then tries to deflect his 'embarrassment'/'bafflement' further by saying that if he wanted to look at naked women all he would have to do is look at John's laptop. John has a quick retort ready for that.

So, my point is, in this scene Sherlock is using John to deflect Irene's attention away from himself and what is for him a very unusual situation where he actually feels somewhat out of his depth. I think he does this partly because he believes that John being a 'man of the world' will somehow be able to handle the situation in someway. In fact John does just that by suggesting Irene puts something on, albeit he suggests a table napkin at first.

Very keen observation That makes a lot of sense. I think he probably did feel very much out of his comfort zone and probably was using John as an excuse to rectify that problem. I hadn't thought about the idea of Sherlock trying to get John to handle it though. I forgot about the napkin!  haha

imane nikko wrote:

Wikipedia has a nice rundown of the term "ship" (and related words like slash and yaoi).

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_(fandom)#section_3

"Shipping, derived from the word relationship"... now I feel a bit dim for not figuring that out on my own ha

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_%28fandom%29