SH and The Case of the Silk Stocking

Last night I watched Rupert Everett play Sherlock Holmes in "The Case of the Silk Stocking" which I thought was probably the worst SH I've seen in ages. RE's SH is so athletic that he leaps around demonstrating how he might later have survived the Reichenbach Falls but puts me in mind of bad wire-work action movies. Mrs Watson-to-be has the lousiest American accent and I think bears little resemblance to the few mentions of Mrs Watson in canon (for fun go to http://www.sherlockpeoria.net/Who_is_Sherlock/WatsonsWives.html where the author hypothesizes that the good doctor may have had 6 wives!!). If they ever make a sequel I doubt I'll watch it.
Speaking of accents as an American I find that many British actors cannot do good American accents and I'm sure the opposite is true too. In BtVS we were blessed by the fact that Marsters and Denisof were very good at Britspeak or so I'm told by nativespeakers.

On another note I'm so pleased that Lazuli, lit_gal, riani1, tabaqui, authoressnebula, nwhepcat and others have updated their fics. Such abundance makes me extremely happy.

More Favorite Fics: Long Time Gone and The Hour Series (S/X)

Long Time Gone by yin_again is an incredibly well-written fic. It goes AU sometime in S7 as Xander leaves Sunnydale, disappearing for 8 years. In the interim he's become a man, a man with a mission as he returns to Sunnydale and to Spike for help. Slowly, step by step, their relationship grows as they overcome a few obstacles on their path to happiness. Yindagger's Xander is unforgettable--he's a man who has found happiness only to have had it snatched away in a cruel manner. With Spike's caring help he comes alive and is able to love again. It's h/c though the hurt is psychological not physical.
The Hour Series is the result of a challenge by estepheia where in order to make peace with Xander, (or at least a kind of ceasefire) Spike offers Xander an opportunity to get even: One hour of payback for past insults and Spike's involvement with Anya: "Sixty minutes. You say it - I do it. You dish it - I take it." Yin's Xander takes Spike up on his offer in a completely novel way--I didn't foresee that response. Yummy.
I'm often astonished by the quality of the writing in fandom. Some are actually published writers and others like Yin are attempting to turn pro. And of course there are others I think could be published if only their fics were original, het and not NC-17. In writing her original fiction Yin cut back on writing major fanfics. She has written ficlets set in the LTGverse and other things and I keep hoping she might one day give her LTGXander the child he deserves.
I'll keep reading whatever she chooses to write and maybe one day I'll go to a bookstore and see a mystery written by her. I wish her well in all her endeavors