I recall thinking about that when I wrote Red and thought there was something in either that story or Milk that didn't fit. Today I re-read them and didn't see anything contradictory, although maybe it's in the beginning part of this one that I had written before pico started. I need to re-read this draft at some point! I started today, but then had to go out.
It is like the mood of the series is pulling at me here though. Maybe that's a good sign, although perhaps not for this story.
This definitely veers in that direction, though as you say, it may be a leap for this story simply because it's not referenced until now (unless it's in the parts we haven't seen). I'm quite curious to see how you handle this as you go on.
As a side note, I had to laugh when I read the NYT review of the "Holmes" movie and came across this sentence:
Anachronistic as it might be, it isn’t hard to imagine Benedict Cumberbatch, the kinetic, intensely focused Sherlock of the BBC series, aging into this mellow codger. (The same can’t be said for the smirky action-hero version played by Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie’s tedious franchise.)
Smirky action hero--oh lord the new mfu trailer definitely stars a walking smirk.
Ah, that was pleasant to read regarding my favourite dramatisation of the character! I think smirk is the emotional/intellectual stance of choice for a lot of protagonists these days. That approach and almost only that approach.
I didn't put anything in this story, consciously anyway, to connect it to Experiments, although I don't think it would be hard to add a sentence or even a phrase here and there to reference that extra layer of things. This is probably because my mind is always ready to go in that direction and I think my stories are usually situated near the edge.
Possibly what I thought was incompatible, back in the winter when I wrote Milk was that I referred to a series three development with Redbeard. Since Redbeard was in the past, he would have been there even during series one and two, but we just hadn't heard of him (if, indeed, Redbeard is a dog - I've decided he was). So...I suppose I could take that detail from series three without taking any of the rest of it, since I had already created my own version of the hiatus, the return and Mary. Hmmm. Hmmm.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ninetydegrees
no subject
on 2015-07-18 11:14 pm (UTC)It is like the mood of the series is pulling at me here though. Maybe that's a good sign, although perhaps not for this story.
no subject
on 2015-07-19 03:15 pm (UTC)As a side note, I had to laugh when I read the NYT review of the "Holmes" movie and came across this sentence:
Anachronistic as it might be, it isn’t hard to imagine Benedict Cumberbatch, the kinetic, intensely focused Sherlock of the BBC series, aging into this mellow codger. (The same can’t be said for the smirky action-hero version played by Robert Downey Jr. in Guy Ritchie’s tedious franchise.)
Smirky action hero--oh lord the new mfu trailer definitely stars a walking smirk.
no subject
on 2015-07-19 03:44 pm (UTC)I didn't put anything in this story, consciously anyway, to connect it to Experiments, although I don't think it would be hard to add a sentence or even a phrase here and there to reference that extra layer of things. This is probably because my mind is always ready to go in that direction and I think my stories are usually situated near the edge.
Possibly what I thought was incompatible, back in the winter when I wrote Milk was that I referred to a series three development with Redbeard. Since Redbeard was in the past, he would have been there even during series one and two, but we just hadn't heard of him (if, indeed, Redbeard is a dog - I've decided he was). So...I suppose I could take that detail from series three without taking any of the rest of it, since I had already created my own version of the hiatus, the return and Mary. Hmmm. Hmmm.
no subject
on 2015-07-20 01:13 am (UTC)