221b_recs | Vid Rec: Into the Fire

Title: Into the Fire
Music Title & Artist: "Into the Fire (Acoustic)" by Thirteen Senses
Vidder: Dunalqua
Pairing or Character: Holmes/Watson
Verse: Granada
Link: There is no announcement post, so the link is to Youtube: Into the Fire vid

Reccer's Comments: This vid owns my heart because it is a celebration of quiet, restrained, dazzling intimacy. The slight, graceful gestures, the glancing looks, the teasing smiles. Walking together down a busy street or a country lane, leaning toward each other, sharing a meal, touching a shoulder, lighting a cigarette, falling asleep. This vid wraps you up in the sheer warmth and beauty of these men's shared lives and the joy they take in each other and then unrepentantly punches you in the face with Reichenbach angst and walks away, its job well done.

In short, this is a tribute to the first Jeremy Brett series, and what a glorious tribute it is. The UST positively simmers, and I say that as someone who never particularly connected with David Burke's Watson (though of course I appreciate that many here love him and I would never argue with that.) He is not a personal favorite of mine, but watching this vid it is undeniable that both actors from the very beginning used their physicality to wordlessly establish a relationship between these characters of tremendous warmth and mutual fascination, and I cannot applaud them enough for the direction in which they took Holmes and Watson and the way they reached out to each other in their portrayals.

Dunalqua has only done two Holmes vids as far as I know, but they both knock me off my feet. This one is the more serious of the two, and I am so glad that they made such a beautiful work and shared it!