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[purplefringe]

Puncture Repair
edited by purplefringe
fandom: Elementary
characters: Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson
music: Puncture Repair - Elbow
summary: I leaned on you today (and I have promises to keep)
content notes: Spoilers for the whole first series
notes: Made from scratch in a 48-hour burst of sleep-deprived creativity, in order to be finished in time for such_heights's birthday yesterday. ♥ Thank you for getting me to overcome my initial scepticism and finally watch this stupid show about stupid people with stupid faces and their stupid (beautiful, complex) relationship. I may have some Thoughts about them at some point, but right now everything I have to say is in the vid.


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Lyrics

I leaned on you today
I regularly hurt but never say
I nearly wore the window through
Where was air sea rescue?
The cavalry with tea and sympathy
You were there
Puncture repair

I leaned on you today
I regularly hurt but never say
You patched me up and sent me on my way
I leaned on you today

Comments

[calvinahobbes]

MY EMOTIONSSSSS ;____________;

I was clutching my chest the minute they started handing each other things. URGH! And then your sequence of distressed!Sherlocks sort of ramping up in frustration until car crash and thrashing things. SHERLOCK JUST HAS A LOT OF FEELINGS OKAY! And the parellels between the Manhattan constellation and Irene's freckles ;___; And the one between the heroin syringe and the tattoo needle OMG!

The handcuff clip made me think about how ~SYMOBOLIC this is of Sherlock's condition, how he is so obsessed with being able to 'break free' on his own, don't need no stinkin cavalry don't need no help no sir he quits his own damn drugs/handcuffs.

But then Joaannnnnn and "puncture repair" brb dying. OKAY I CAN'T TALK ABOUT THIS ANYMORE BYE D: D: D:

[purplefringe]

*pats* I'm sorry I made you feel those things! (...I'm not sorry.)

Thank you for such a lovely, in-depth comment! It's always so great to get detailed feedback - particularly when it highlights things I hadn't even thought of myself. I really love what you said about the handcuff bit - it's funny, because what I was actually thinking about was the dialogue that accompanies that scene (I think a lot about the context of the clips when I vid....maybe too much) - that's the scene where he tells Joan that 'seeing the puzzle' 'has its costs'...it's isolating. There is no cavalry coming because he has pushed them all away. But it works both ways!

The Manhattan constellation and Irene's freckle constellation...I was really pleased with that parallel. :-) But I debated whether or not to put it in - it initially felt a bit strange to see Irene in the vid, when it was otherwise such an intimate look at Joan and Sherlock's relationship, and Sherlock's psyche. But then I realised (a) Irene/Moriarty IS such a key part of what makes up that psyche that it was no different from showing his drug addiction, and (b) I would have been really annoyed if I'd seen that parallel show up in another vid :-P

tl;dr: Thank you! I hope you've recovered.

[calvinahobbes]

Hee, you should not be sorry! You should totally treasure the knowledge that you made me wibble :D

I just... am still not quite sure how you packed so much punch into such a short vid. But you really did!

that's the scene where he tells Joan that 'seeing the puzzle' 'has its costs'...it's isolating.
Ah, that's right! I had forgotten. But yes, I think that's the other side of the coin, really, because I think what Elementary does such a good job showing - and what you vid shows! - is that Sherlock is WRONG about his job/intelligence being isolating. It's also his choice, in some way, and the show is all about dismantling his idea about not needing anyone. He needs Joan! He is better with her! (Voice-overs are a bit of a pet peeve for me, but you made it work because it was 100% topical.)

I think you are completely right about Irene - I definitely didn't think it turned the vid somehow shippy or moved the focus from Sherlock and his relationship to Joan. Because the way you used that clip made it clear that it was so much more about how Sherlock saw/puzzled out Moriarty, than it was about how he saw Irene... If that makes sense...

[purplefringe]

Sherlock is WRONG about his job/intelligence being isolating. It's also his choice, in some way, and the show is all about dismantling his idea about not needing anyone.

Yes! Quite. 'Seeing the puzzle' doesn't have to be isolating at all. Quite the opposite in fact - seeing all the connections between things could help him to be a wonderfully empathetic (is that a word?) person if he wanted to. (See the scene where he sends a bottle of champagne over to the newly engaged couple). It's mostly his own choice/his own destructive behaviour that is isolating, not his abilities. Joan takes none of his shit and helps him to accept that other people can be a Good Thing.

I'm not usually that keen on voice-overs either. I think they shouldn't really be necessary...but I love that quote, it's so simple and heartfelt, and it felt right to use it here.