So, now I’m here as well. And believe me: I tried to resist. ‚Not another forum‘, I said to myself. ‚You don’t have the time!‘, I said to myself. ‚Don’t register!‘, I said to myself. All those things I said to myself repeatedly over the last few days, since I found this forum. I have no idea, by the way, why it took me so long to find it, after all Sherlock and Mister Cumberbatch have been more or less the only things I’ve been searching the internet for in the last few weeks.

But as you can see (and here comes a fine little Star Trek-quote): Resistance is futile. Yes, so I’m a trekkie, and before the latest movie came out I just thought: ‚Benedict who…?!‘ There you go, won’t happen ever again. Because while I waited for the movie to be released, I sort of stumbled upon Sherlock – and the rest is history. A while ago I asked Cumberbatch-fans in another forum (which has nothing to do with Sherlock or Mister Cumberbatch whatsoever) if I would have to prepare myself for drooling Cumberbatch-fans when I go see „Into Darkness“. The answer was: YES. And I went (sort of): Oh. God. No. Oh, well. Seems ages ago... Now I would go: Oh. God. Yes., myself.

Because things changed shortly afterwards. But I have to admit: it wasn’t love at first sight, Sherlock and me. Please, don’t shout abuse. Can’t believe it myself. First sight was: a re-run of „The Blind Banker“ on German television. I happened to tune into the scene in which Sherlock and John look through all those books in their flat. And I thought: ‚Wow. Books. And lots of them. Exciting. And this posh Sherlock… a bit on the arrogant side, aren’t we?‘ Yeah, well, what can I say… I’m afraid I have absolutely nothing to say in my own defence. After about a minute I switched chanels, and that was that. Sometimes it takes me a little longer to get it.

Second sight was: a re-run of „A Scandal in Belgravia“ on German television a couple of weeks later. I had no idea of course that the beginning of the episode was the conclusion of a cliffhanger. Nevertheless (and that really says something about the quality of the show’s writing, I think) I was immediately hooked, fascinated, thrilled, in love and so not bored…! So, that was that. Couldn’t get enough, the next day I ordered both seasons on DVD – and fell in love with it all over again once I saw and heared it in the original and not the dubbed version. Oh, and imagine my shock when I realized that there are only six episodes so far. Are you kiddin’me???

Anyway, to cut a long story short: Here I am. 37 years old, living pretty much in the centre of Germany, loving the movies, books, my boyfriend… and yes, Sherlock. Let’s see how much time I’ll really be able to spend here, but so far I spent a lot of time just reading through the forum, so… I’m looking forward to getting to know you all soon!