Gift for purplefringe by dkwilliams (Sherlock Holmes - Granada TV series)

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Title of vid: Always 1895
Recipient: purplefringe
Vidder: dkwilliams
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (1984-94 Granada TV series)
Music: Love Theme from "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" by Miklos Rozsa
Summary: No matter what changes occur in the real world, for Sherlock Holmes and his Watson(s), it is always 1895.
Content notes: No standardized notes apply
Signed length: 01:20
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Comments

[purplefringe]

Oh, festividder, this is beautiful and lovely and full of FEELINGS and I love it <333 Thank you so much! I had no idea that there was a Basil Rathbone recording of this poem - but it's perfect, and has added whole meta layers of HOLMESness to this vid. You've used the source footage to illustrate the poem perfectly - the gas lamps, and fog and 'England is England yet'.

I love the use of the War footage, which makes it seem like this Holmes and Watson really are part of our world, even as the poem insists that they 'never lived and so can never die'. Such meta, wow :-) (I have meta thoughts, but can't articulate them just now because I am too full of love)

Oh oh and 'only those things the heart believes are true'<333333 That was PERFECT. Their FACES. THEIR FACES ARE SO GREAT.

Thank you so much!

[dkwilliams]

So glad you liked the vid! I dithered about what music to use and then came across Starret's recording of his poem and knew I wanted to use that for part of it. After that, it was all about the meta.

Personally, I love "playing the game" and I think that in some alternate universe Holmes and Watson are real.