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theodoraleft left many thanks for everyone who helped out with the Thanksgiving shopping last month. She also left the thanks last month, but I have been writing stories about bamboo and compost and god knows what else and burning my thumb and learning to play Cole Porter in E flat on the ukulele, not to mention very, very crap at doing anything in a timely fashion. Thanks, though! SHE was totally timely!
For anyone worried about December 21st, the world has not ended here in the future. It won't end over there in the past, either. Though if I have to go into the shopping centre opposite my work to buy salad for lunch and brave the bonkers crowds again tomorrow, it may end for one or two very specific people. I feel absolutely certain there must be a way to commit homicide by red pepper, if one is sufficiently motivated! Probably best to pack some extra porridge …
Keep out of the madding crowds, dear flist! If you haven't bought your gifts yet, tell everyone they were delayed in the post and buy them in the sales!
In other news, the lovely
theodoraleft left many thanks for everyone who helped out with the Thanksgiving shopping last month. She also left the thanks last month, but I have been writing stories about bamboo and compost and god knows what else and burning my thumb and learning to play Cole Porter in E flat on the ukulele, not to mention very, very crap at doing anything in a timely fashion. Thanks, though! SHE was totally timely!For anyone worried about December 21st, the world has not ended here in the future. It won't end over there in the past, either. Though if I have to go into the shopping centre opposite my work to buy salad for lunch and brave the bonkers crowds again tomorrow, it may end for one or two very specific people. I feel absolutely certain there must be a way to commit homicide by red pepper, if one is sufficiently motivated! Probably best to pack some extra porridge …
Keep out of the madding crowds, dear flist! If you haven't bought your gifts yet, tell everyone they were delayed in the post and buy them in the sales!
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Date: 2012-12-20 01:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 02:17 pm (UTC)Sherlock: Look at me! I am terribly clever and eccentric! And more so than the average British person! Though, of course, being British gives me a head start on both.
Watson: Woe! I am depressed! I killed someone, because god forbid a woman surgeon be competent or indeed a war hero as Watsons have traditionally been. I mean, even Grey's Anatomy had a war hero female surgeon, and it's a cold day in hell when they are flying the flag for equitable representations of women in TV, though I suppose they've not put any pressure on the two lesbians to be size zeroes now I think on it … sorry, what was I saying? Oh yes, WOE! And also ANGST!
Sherlock: I am going to pose manfully and tell you I am super-brilliant more often than the most recent Doctor Who.
Watson: I can't stand him. Also, you're SO brilliant.
Sherlock: Cheers. I know.
Me: AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE! [Flees, wishing I'd thought to record Go Girls so I could get my crap Kiwi TV fix without the ads.]
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Date: 2012-12-20 02:03 pm (UTC)Else they'll turn me off the whole thing.
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Date: 2012-12-20 02:23 pm (UTC)Lucy Liu is AWESOME and I love the idea of her as Watson. But again, the adverts have made her seem all passive and angsty and not the kick-arse character that makes a good Watson or indeed a good Liu.
It may actually be a fantastic show, but I have to start fleeing from the ads if I am going to be able to watch it at all because they are a steaming pile of pig manure. (Not even horse manure, which is comparatively nice.)
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Date: 2012-12-20 02:41 pm (UTC)Watson was a robot once, their argument is invalid. (tumblr can be very bad for my blood pressure, I swear)
Apropos of nothing, Google just told me today (yesterday where I am, I guess) is the 200th anniversary of the Grimm's fairy tale. I feel like I should read something to celebrate ^^
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Date: 2012-12-20 03:13 pm (UTC)Have you ever read Mrs Holmes of Baker Street? I have not, because I've not been able to get my hands on a copy, but it posits an argument based on textual evidence that Holmes was a woman. Apparently, it's fab.
As are the Grimm stories; wolves, blood, sex with corpses – all the good things kids today miss out on!
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Date: 2012-12-20 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-21 04:41 pm (UTC)Yeah, Liu is pretty fab, which is why I was v cross when it looked as though she was having to be all sweet and passive. Since this is apparently not the case, I'll give it a go!
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Date: 2012-12-20 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-21 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 03:59 pm (UTC)Glad to hear that Dec. 21st hasn't heralded the end of the world where you are. Mind you, as the OH points out, it's not Dec. 21st in the Yucatan yet. Meh, whatever. *remembers the Harmonic Convergence of 1987" *snorts*
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Date: 2012-12-21 04:36 pm (UTC)We're well into the 22nd here, still alive! And don't even mention that: the number of hippies I had to listen to that year! ARGH!!!!!
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Date: 2012-12-20 04:15 pm (UTC)(Not watching that - I still have two seasons of The Walking Dead to watch and then it will be back from hiatus.)
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Date: 2012-12-21 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-22 04:03 am (UTC)I LIKE PRESENTS. :D
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Date: 2012-12-20 04:15 pm (UTC)I'm happy to say I've got all my presents together already (had since Sunday, yay! ^^). But I only had to get little presents for 4 people. Very manageable. :)
The real work will come around the Christmas days themselves, when I make candy and our favorite cookies for my family.
Not that I'm getting too worked up about that right now, in case the world DOES end before that. No reason to worry needlessly. *giggle*
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Date: 2012-12-21 04:35 pm (UTC)I really wish I lived closer to you what with the cookies, but you've given me a good idea: I should make some truffles rather than rely on sewing and flower making!
And HURRAH for non-death!
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Date: 2012-12-21 04:47 pm (UTC)As for the end of the world: Somebody said something about 6pm our time which would be about noon for the Mayas. 15 minutes left. :D
And some other people said that the calculations are off by 104 years. How could THAT happen? *shakes head*
Oh well, one of these days, one of them will be right - but then he or she won't even be able to gloat... *giggle*
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Date: 2012-12-20 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-21 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 06:07 pm (UTC)Let's get that chap that swaps with Cumberbatch, anyway, and make Watson female and Oriental and useless, because women are useless.
And American.
And I have no idea who the actress is, do that doesn't tempt me.
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Date: 2012-12-21 10:32 am (UTC)I think I will give it a try, on the understanding that I expect it to be an American procedural with people named Holmes and Watson by their ACD-loving parents rather than actual Holmes and Watson. If Watson IS perfectly fine and not the patient-murdering simpering Holmes worshiper the ads make her out to be, then that may be fine. If not, I will probably bring my outrage to LJ ;-)
Lucy Liu is actually rather good, despite being in some very trashy films.
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Date: 2012-12-20 07:03 pm (UTC)LOL
Hi
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Date: 2012-12-21 10:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-21 01:59 pm (UTC)here with a nasty head cold
if the world ends can I saty in bed?
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Date: 2012-12-21 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 09:02 pm (UTC)on the one hand i really think lucy liu is gorgeous and amazing, and i have no problems with watson's backstory because watson is supposed to be a little messed up in the confidence department.
i'm eye rolly with how sherlock is just a little too good to be true. he's too likable. it feels (to me) very ~american in that way. he redeems himself too easily every time. :/
my main problem is with the watson dynamic (that might just be my 'stuff' rising to the surface). but i find the whole premise that she's there without his consent and he's just expected to open up to her, and our sympathy is definitely intended to be with her when she's talking about how she's opened up to him and yet he's not playing the game. and just. why should he, seriously? imposed caregiving. just. ugh.
but i still watch it whenever a new episode comes up. :P
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Date: 2012-12-21 10:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 09:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-21 10:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 09:47 pm (UTC)I think that's about how far I got before J turned it off to preserve my sanity.
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Date: 2012-12-21 07:19 am (UTC)Though he does sometimes hate it when he is right, like in the Little Dancing Men. But he throws himself into action hoping he will be in time and then says, 'Alas, Watson, too late!' and it's always over people he has met and been charmed by, usually a woman or a child …
I think I'll probably give it a go, but am most likely to pretend he was named after Sherlock Holmes and thus has issues ;-)
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Date: 2012-12-20 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-21 07:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 11:04 pm (UTC)instead of the EPIC FAILS of the BBC version; and the steady growth of what we can see will be a wonderful friendship and partnership, then yes - you will hate Elementary.I admit, I side-eyed the show when I first heard about it, but when all of the anti-American bullshit followed I did some unfriending and vowed to watch it. I am very glad I did. I will admit that the show's creator is not the best writer, so please stick with it past the first two episodes, and it will get a lot better. I'm not saying it doesn't still have its problems, but the positives are worth it to me by far. I look forward to it every week. I will end my plug there :)
Also, red peppers are revolting and I think you should definitely find out the damage they can do to rude holiday crowds.
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Date: 2012-12-21 07:10 am (UTC)Taking it to America doesn't bother me at all; Conan Doyle was very keen on Americans and has loads of them in his Holmes stories and more in his fantasy and sci fi books. What upset me in the ads was the fetishisation of British Holmes in an American context, though from what you say, it could well be that the adverts are nothing like the show: fingers crossed! Still, I don't see why it couldn't be all-American, which would make more sense! New York is certainly a dense enough metropolis to be the sort of city ACD thought you needed for a Holmes!
Red peppers are DELICIOUS! You should let me eat them all for you! (Though they are also admirably aerodynamic …)
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Date: 2012-12-22 12:45 am (UTC)I have to say, it pleases me greatly to see so much positive Elementary talk from your other commenters. The only discourse I've really been able to find has been on Television Without Pity, and it's not quite the same as fandom.
Oh, I forgot that roasted red pepper hummus is quite acceptable. Save enough for me, and you can do what you like with the rest.
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Date: 2012-12-21 01:28 am (UTC)That said I keep watching every week. The mysteries are improving, the Holmes/Watson relationship has been pretty solid, I love the leads (Aidan Quinn is a good second to Rupert Graves as far as silver foxes go), and the addiction issues are intriguing. Watson had been hired on a limited basis as his sober companion, so I'll be interested to see how they manage to keep her with Sherlock.
I'd give it a go. It's not the gem that the BBC version is, but it's good enough.
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Date: 2012-12-21 07:02 am (UTC)I know what you mean about locations: both London and Sydney-based programmes have scene one 15km from scene two, when characters are meant to have walked there in three minutes ;-)
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Date: 2012-12-21 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-21 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-21 08:58 am (UTC)As to the end of the world, at least in NZ we'll be the first to know about it!
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Date: 2012-12-21 10:21 am (UTC)And here we are at 9.20pm, still fine!