You know your "Sherlock" obsession is bad when...

[T.o.b.y]

... when you read someone's transcripts of the audio commentaries on the new episodes multiple times, with squeals and giggles, and feel the burning urge to comment on the commentaries, the only reason to refrain at the moment being your husband who correctly points out that it's bad enough having a long-distance marriage and that on the few occasions where you are in one place, it would be really nice if your attention was there, too.

 

But seriously, god bless Ariane DeVere!

http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/75489.html

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Watching TGG on BBCA.  I am totally finding myself responding to Sherlock and/or otherwise talking about what is going on in the episode to the TV set during the first airing at 6pm CST and again now.  

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

...when you see cookies and all you can think is

 

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

...and when you see someone extremely pretty and you're just

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

You are talking with a guy about turning your paintings into prints and somehow, shortly before you leave the shop, Sherlock gets brought up and briefly discussed, including today's photo of the script read through for the special.

[sfmpco]

I know my Sherlock obsession is bad when...

 

- Everytime I say "hmmm" I think of the way he says it to Molly after she says "urinating in wardrobes - bad"

- When you're visiting family and you just want everyone to go to bed so that you can watch episodes of Sherlock in peace and quiet

- When bits of Sherlock dialogue creep into your every day life

- When I think I might just have a bit of a kniption if he doesn't have Sherlock hair in January.  Not favoring wiglock, but not that short Richard III thing he's got going on now.  So wiglock it will have to be.  Won't be the first time.

- When I don't even have to be watching it but can just listen to it and be playing it in my head anyhow...

- When I just can't see Benedict at all but see Sherlock as a completely separate being.  

[Boton]

I know my Sherlock obsession is bad when...

 

- When I don't even have to be watching it but can just listen to it and be playing it in my head anyhow...

- When I just can't see Benedict at all but see Sherlock as a completely separate being.  

 

I've gotten to the point that I can listen to the soundtrack and hear the dialogue over it.....

 

I love the last one, myself.  I love that there is finally a Sherlock in my head that I can laugh at and get mad at and wonder about that has nothing to do with the actor, and all I have to feel toward BC is gratitude for making such a 3D character that I can enjoy Sherlock to the max without feeling like I'm projecting anything onto the actor.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I love that there is finally a Sherlock in my head that I can laugh at and get mad at and wonder about that has nothing to do with the actor, and all I have to feel toward BC is gratitude for making such a 3D character that I can enjoy Sherlock to the max without feeling like I'm projecting anything onto the actor.

Likewise, I am relieved that I can safely have a major crush on John Watson -- even though Martin Freeman and I are both otherwise spoken for, are nowhere near the same age, and don't appear to have much in common.

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

You re-watch part of TRF to catch a line that was brought up for discussion on it's thread.  Then fast forward through the episode to catch some of the enduring/ major feels parts before you take off for church as you don't have time for the full 90 minutes.

[sfmpco]

If Sherlock were a real person, i could hang out with him all day long.  Seriously.  

[SherlockedCAMPer]

If Sherlock were a real person, i could hang out with him all day long.  Seriously.  

 

I'm debating if I would be able to.  We might actually drive each other nuts.  But it would definitely be fun to try.  Alas, he's not real so instead we'll just talk about it.

[sfmpco]

Well there are things about him that would definitely clash with me, especially the spiritual side - someone who puts science as his god... but I have found myself taking on some of his behaviors... especially not tolerating boredom or idiocy from others.

[T.o.b.y]

If Sherlock were a real person, i could hang out with him all day long.  Seriously.  

 

Hmmmm, I think I'd like him just as much as I do now if he were real, too, but I doubt very much that he'd want anything to do with me, unless I somehow became the victim of a particularly intriguing crime.

 

I can't quite imagine interacting with Sherlock. I'd probably be the Anderson type fan and stalk him or something.

[Arcadia]

I'm afraid I'd be more the Sally Donovan type. In real life, guys like that, I just want to punch them every time they open their arrogant mouths. Not that I would. Let's just say there would be a lot of verbal sparring. Of course, if it ended in laughter, I'd probably fall head over heels for the stupid jerk ....

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

I would be that one weird person like Mr. Shilcott. Like, I walk around my house with a blanket around me and when I have to get up from the computer I unplug the headphones instead of taking them out of my ears. And I'm in that stage of life as an artist where I'm drawing EVERYTHING with wings.

[Boton]

I actually think Sherlock and I would get along, but maybe John and I wouldn't.  Quirky geniuses are kind of my thing, and, since I have a fair amount of identification with Irene (different line of work, I hasten to point out), I think we would probably spar like there was no tomorrow, but we'd both know we were doing it partly because its fun.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I'm more the Molly type personality-wise so any interaction with Sherlock would be from that point of view. Her lines from TRF at Bart's before the kids are found is something I might say. At the very least, I would pick up on Sherlock's emotional distress he had going on.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I think I could get along with both Sherlock and John. And the canon Sherlock did believe in a higher power other then himself. It was Irene Adler that said he only believed in himself but she had only known for a few seconds so I don't give that much credence. Gatiss and Moffat has said that "Sherlock Holmes is a man trying to be a god". I have met a lot of real life people trying to do the same thing so that's no much on my radar either.

 

I don't mind a lot of silence for long periods of time. Can go days without talking if I have something to occupy my time. I would love listening to the violin and sharing John's toast and jam with tea.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Bad obsession: you have to apologize to your son for laughing too loud during TSOT because he is trying to sleep for the night.

[Boton]

You try, and fail, to start a Sherlock discussion at Thanksgiving dinner, although you do manage to accidentally kick off a rousing discussion of which part of the Dr. Who reboot to start viewing at.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

I think I could get along with both Sherlock and John. And the canon Sherlock did believe in a higher power other then himself. It was Irene Adler that said he only believed in himself but she had only known for a few seconds so I don't give that much credence. Gatiss and Moffat has said that "Sherlock Holmes is a man trying to be a god". 

 

And the Doctor is a god trying to be a man.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

...when you want to put a dead Sherlock underneath your personal Christmas tree, but then your creators tell you that dead Sherlock is not Christmas-appropriate.

[T.o.b.y]

How about an alive Sherlock? There is a "Merry Christmas" scene, after all...

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

I'll just decorate my Christmas tree Wholock-style. And everyone will have wings. WINGS.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Will there be weeping angels as well?