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I'm coming up with some ideas. I guess I could analyze the show from a filmmaking perspective, too, since I worked in that field, but I like forgetting that this is fiction and not something that actually happened. I don't really know how to explain it. There are some things that I like analyzing how it was made, but when I'm really invested in the characters and seeing them as people, I don't like to do that. I have this faint recollection of analyzing the composition of the shots and how they are edited together in the past, but since I started writing Sherlock fic, I don't like to do that. When I write characters, I switch into my default, "treat them like they are real" mode, so now the source material is a historical document and not a piece of carefully constructed fiction. Even though I know it is, but I push that to the side. So I'm actively disregarding things that aren't part of the characters' world, like music and shot composition, because in history, that's the historian's bias and how they want the audience to view the information being presented. That's one of the first things you do in historical research. Identify the author's bias so you can examine the information in the most objective way possible (while acknowledging that true objectivity is impossible). Pretty much, I'm treating it like a documentary.

Which is the opposite of how you're supposed to analyze art, hence my crisis. But now that I wrote that, I'm actually leaning into it even more. I haven't done any proper historical research in a while and I miss it.