They are showing the adverts for the American Sherlock thingy here …

[blamebrampton]

I am going to hate it, aren't I?

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!

Comments

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

You mean Elementary? I hope not, it's a really great show! I love it! The Holmes/Watson dynamic is really amazing, Jonny's Sherlock is perfectly manic and I absolutely adore Lucy's Joan. But it still might not be your cup of tea! I just really love this spin on the old tale. (Then again, I'm not comparing it to anything because I don't watch the BBC version.)

[takarai-karin.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched Elementary but I'm planning to since I love Lucy Liu. The BBC Sherlock fandom in tumblr has been repulsive about it though, and Freeman's comment has made me sideeye him forever. So much that right now I'm just waiting for the new season and an avoiding everything else in relation to BBCS.

Else they'll turn me off the whole thing.

[momebie.livejournal.com]

You might. I find it okay, but not in that way in which it really ties in to the Holmes mythology for me. Plus it's kind of a procedural thing and I'm not really into those. But I like Lucy Liu's face and JLM isn't bad.

[merlyn-gabriel.livejournal.com]

It's actually not a bad show. I try not to think of it as Sherlock Holmes so much as an American detective TV show with a British twist. I was all set to pooh pooh it but no, it's actually worth watching for its own sake...it's just not really Sherlock Holmes in any traditional sense at all.

[chamekke.livejournal.com]

I watched the pilot of Elementary and found it deadly dull. Maybe it improved after the pilot (that's common enough), but the characters didn't grab me sufficiently to make me want to see it again. YMMV, of course.

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*

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

SHUSH, YOU ARE SPOILING MY APOCALYPSE EVE PARTY WITH YOUR ANTI-DOOM.

(Not watching that - I still have two seasons of The Walking Dead to watch and then it will be back from hiatus.)

[janey-p.livejournal.com]

Haha, love your Christmas shopping advice. :D
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*

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

I love Elementary! However, I say this as an American, used to our style of TV. And if it were fanfic, I'd categorize it as extremely AU.

[shocolate.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't watch it if you paid me.

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.

[rickey-a.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness for Australia giving me the heads up on the Apocolypse... although it isn't the 21st in Mayan time zone yet...

LOL

Hi

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

i have such mixed feelings about elementary. i've been watching it online.

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

[shu-shu-sleeps.livejournal.com]

Just an update on the apocalypse - its now 8.15am in Australia, and no end of the world, so it looks like I'm going to have to brave the shops..... Wish me luck!

[auntpurl.livejournal.com]

J and I watched the first scene of the pilot episode of Elementary just last night. Sherlock figured out where a corpse was hidden and looked sadly at the body and said, " I hate it when I'm right sometimes." And I turned to J, spluttering with rage, spitting out something like, "NO HE DOESN'T! HE LOVES WHEN HE'S RIGHT! AND HE'S NOT SAD WHEN HE FINDS A RANDOM CORPSE! HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT STRANGERS LIKE THAT! HE'S NOT EMPATHETIC IN THE-"

I think that's about how far I got before J turned it off to preserve my sanity.

[kayoko.livejournal.com]

I've been watching Elementary and enjoy it. It definitely grew on me, but doesn't move/shock me like BBC Sherlock.

[subtlefire.livejournal.com]

If you hate a wonderful new take on a very old and repeatedly done character; a very intelligent, emotionally mature woman who is really good at her job; subtle yet oftentimes hilarious humor; numerous instances of gender!win and race!win 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.

[bk7brokemybrain.livejournal.com]

Hm. I wasn't too sure at first, but it's growing on me. They are focusing heavily on the addict facet of his makeup. I really wasn't happy that the writers shoved Sherlock's sexuality(???) in our faces before we even meet him (a bit of mystery please? No? Thanks, writers). The crimes/plots weren't very complicated (I knew whodunnit one week before I even knew there was a murder), and they play fast and loose with locations and relative distances in NYC which is surprisingly annoying to me. Jonny Lee Miller pulls a lot of faces and Sherlock is very non-fastidious in his hygiene, so it just annoys me how far they took this version from canon, or even the BBC version.
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.

[hollyxu.livejournal.com]

Huh. Watson's actually super sassy and takes none of Holmes's bs, and my favourite thing about the show. Give it a chance?

[alicambs.livejournal.com]

No idea, but I have no desire to watch an American version of British icons because I get sick of American TV taking British things and remaking them in their own image! Ooops, sorry, got on my high horse there! :-)

As to the end of the world, at least in NZ we'll be the first to know about it!