Hello from Germany (too)!

[Tea&Nicotine]

First of all, before I even say 'hi', can I applaud everyone that has been a fan since the beginning?  I mean, how can anyone survive waiting so long?  And I thought Tokio Hotel was bad...  

 

So, with that out of the way, hi!  How did I fall in love with come across Sherlock?  Bored and surfing Netflix, I finally gave the series a chance about a week ago (and finished it in that week) and now I'm -very- impatiently twiddling my thumbs--and drinking more tea than usual.  Quite honestly, the hype it had received drove me away (just like how I can't bring myself to play FF VII); but now I see that it was very well deserved.  Now I'm trying to get my whole family to watch it, while also trying not to seem obsessed (which fails the moment I open my mouth and giggle).  I'm a sucker for witty dialogue and facial expressions, which Sherlock has so much of it should be illegal.  

 

I'm a writer with her first book already published, who's looking for fellow mates to fan with.  I'm German, but my German isn't so good that I can chatter 50 Shades of Sherlock but I wish I could.  So, I'm here.  Hi, again.

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Hello, Tea&Nicotine -- welcome to Sherlock Forum!    Sounds like you've come to the right place!

 

What sort of books do you write (I assume you have more in the works)?

 

[sittything]

Hello and welcome to the forum!   I'm like you and only discovered the series through Netflix within the past few months.  And now we wait... along with everybody else.  

[Schlauer Fuchs]

Hello Tea&Nicotine and welcome to the forum (and fandom)

 

I can so understand why you'd shy away from something that gets so intensely hyped. I also have the tendency to be wary of overly popular series/ music/ films/ people etc. because I tend to think that if so many people like it, it must be very mediocre. Well, sometimes that's true, but sometimes something deserves to be loved because it's just special, and that's definitely the case with Sherlock. I only got to know it about 2 or 3 months ago and and like you watched the whole thing within a few days - and then over and over again the following weeks.

 

I hope you'll join in on our discussions here because frankly, they're just as much fun as watching the series itself

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Hi to the forum. When I discovered Sherlock nearly 4 months ago I watched 2 episodes on Netflix over a 3 day period then binge watched the rest on day 4. And do jump in, we have great discussions that can be as epic as an episode of the show at times.

[Tea&Nicotine]

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone!  Yes, I'm currently in the phase where I'm re-watching everything for the third time...the second time, I caught everything I missed the first time (is it just me or do they mumble sometimes?)...now it's just for the little things, like body movements and funny faces.  Sherlock definitely is special enough to warrant it!  I managed to get my brother into it--won't forget the grin of success when he texted me, 'and damn it, I'm Sherlocked'.  Knew he'd fall in love with Sherlock it.

 

As for the books (and you'd be right, I have more in the works), I write about things/topics/situations that people would rather overlook, or pretend didn't exist.  Things that are considered taboo just because they don't want to wade into the murky water to see what's underneath.  I took that notion and won a national competition in New York for a play I'd written. :-)  My dad was a psychologist and I've been fascinated with the mental psyche ever since...well, sounds cliche, but since I've been a child.

 

Looking forward to peeking into the discussions!

 

 

[Schlauer Fuchs]

 

 

I took that notion and won a national competition in New York for a play I'd written. :-) 

 

wow, that's a great achievement! Congrats!!

 

 

My dad was a psychologist and I've been fascinated with the mental psyche ever since...well, sounds cliche, but since I've been a child.

 

Looking forward to peeking into the discussions!

 

Excellent (*doing the Mr Burns finger thing*), you can join us when we're trying to decipher all the Sherlock characters' psyches, one of our favourite hobbies here

[sittything]

Oh great, you can join us when we're trying to decipher all the Sherlock characters' psyches, one of our favourite hobbies here

Gotta kill 2 years somehow.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Hello, Tea&Nicotine! Mind telling us a little more about your book?

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

...the second time, I caught everything I missed the first time (is it just me or do they mumble sometimes?)

Thank heaven for subtitles!

 

As for the books (and you'd be right, I have more in the works), I write about things/topics/situations that people would rather overlook, or pretend didn't exist.  Things that are considered taboo just because they don't want to wade into the murky water to see what's underneath.  I took that notion and won a national competition in New York for a play I'd written. :-)  My dad was a psychologist and I've been fascinated with the mental psyche ever since...

Sounds intriguing!

[Arcadia]

Welcome to the forum!

[Tea&Nicotine]

Hello, Tea&Nicotine! Mind telling us a little more about your book?

 

 

Hehe, I love your username.  Oooh, let's see, how to put it without making it sound so....angsty.  Well,  here's what the back of it would tell you: 'the idyllic family life is a concept foreign to identical twins, Nikki and Taylin Radakovich. With a coolly-sadistic father as secretive as he is abusive, turning 18 for them represents more than just becoming fledgling adults. It signifies the freedom to escape the hell they'd been forced to call home. However, until time allows them their wish, they're determined to make it through in the only way they know how, continuing a bond society deems inappropriate and one that's set to become the target of their small world as well as the root of their emotional upheaval.'

 

The question that hangs in the air, a bit out of reach for the boys (but they do look up eventually), is--is it a bond conditioned by its surrounding environment, a chemical fluke of Mother Nature, or a bit of both?  I wrote it at the age of 13 and tried to keep that point of view the same while I edited it because it was important to me to show what little minds are/were capable of.

[london2211]

Welcome to the forum

 

hope you enjoy it here!

[T.o.b.y]

I didn't know Sherlock was being hyped! Good thing I got to know the series before that happened, because usually, I am the same way, I shy away from things are incredibly popular. Why is anyone's guess. Maybe my deep-rooted arrogance objects to liking the same stuff as the "ordinary goldfish".

 

Welcome!

[Carol the Dabbler]

T&N -- is that a novel or a real-life report?

 

[Pawse]

[Arcadia]

I didn't know Sherlock was being hyped! Good thing I got to know the series before that happened, because usually, I am the same way, I shy away from things are incredibly popular. Why is anyone's guess. Maybe my deep-rooted arrogance objects to liking the same stuff as the "ordinary goldfish".

 

Welcome!

Or maybe it's just because through experience we have learned that "incredibly popular" frequently means "mediocre".  As in, appeals to the lowest common denominator.

 

I wouldn't call Sherlock "incredibly" popular, at least in my little corner of the universe. I'd call it a "cult hit." (And I frequently like those!) Most of the people I know never heard of it until I started babbling about it, and of those who've heard of it, only a few have watched it -- then promptly forgot about it.

 

Popular, to me, means something like "Dancing with the Stars" -- I know very few people who DON'T watch that, and one of them is me.

 

Maybe if I knew more young(er) people ... but even the young(er) people I DO know haven't seen Sherlock!

[Carol the Dabbler]

A few of my friends (and their children) have seen Sherlock -- in some cases even before I mentioned the show to them.  But you're right, Arcadia, it's more of a cult thing in the US, the way Star Trek was in the late 60's -- in fact, it seems to appeal to the same sort of people -- and in some cases, the same individual people.  One big difference -- Star Trek (the original series) never won any Emmys!

 

[Arcadia]

Yes, I've been noticing that too, there seems to be a Sherlock-Star Trek connection .... something to do with emotionally repressed, highly intelligent beings, perhaps? And humor. I remember Star Trek being very humorous.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Yes, Star Trek could be very humorous.  I don't recall any episodes being completely serious or grim, and a few (such as "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "A Piece of the Action") were actual comedies.

 

[Tea&Nicotine]

I was still in the US, when I noticed the hype.  And really, come to think of it, it was mainly online (ahem, tumblr being one of the worst offenders) and it just seemed that everywhere I looked, it was these two guys that everyone and their grandmother were fawning over and making gifs of. Everything they did or said was so dramatized; I could tell when something bad happened in the series just by glancing through the mass hysteria of posts.  And so I was repelled...

 

But now I've been enlightened and I see that Sherlock and mediocrity are polar opposites.  

 

And it's a novel, Carol!