Watch all the Sherlock!
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xenakis made appropriate post-VividCon icons, and since I couldn't let well enough alone, I stole them and animated them:
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(The reference/meme-starter: here.)
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extrathursday came by and we watched at least an hour of vids. Possibly more. Probably more. Time goes by fast when watching vids. We watched hours of vids. But not all the vids.
To round out the evening, I watched the third episode of Sherlock:
Sherlock 1x03, "The Great Game"
Ah, an entire scene that sets up the hung/hanged bit. Clever. I like it when a writer gets to complain about the mis-use of language. (But as for me, I like my comma splice errors and will not give them up.)
AH, written by Gatiss. That's the explanation for the "I'm a writer being clever" bit. He's allowed. I'll allow it. Plus, Cumberbatch looks good lit like that.
Wait.goodbyemyfancy told me to read the character blogs before watching this. I should do that now. After I watch Cumberbatch flop on the couch one more time. *rewinds* Hee.
BBC websites read (Sherlock's and John's) and now I can continue with the episode! No wonder it takes me so long to watch one of these episodes...
HEAD IN THE FRIDGE!
Oooh, and now they're talking about the blog post. ...I can't imagine what this series is like for people who haven't read the original stories. It's just so full of references. It's a remarkably faithful adaptation, at least as far as all the canon details. Even today's Sherlock doesn't care if the earth goes around the sun or not. I wonder if John wrote up a list like Watson's, and if Sherlock found it and mocked it like Holmes did. :D
That was a flounce, Sherlock. You just flounced while sitting down. Cumberbatch, I am impressed.
Aww, Sherlock watches John leave the flat. (Mrs Hudson ftw!)
Nooo, explosions! Beautifully shot. *applauds* I'm sure Sherlock is fine. We're barely 9 minutes into the episode.
This scene is prettily shot, too. I like the cold light there.
BRUCE-PARTINGTON!
"I'D BE LOST WITHOUT MY BLOGGER." *flaily* (I'll... just be a minute here.)
Hee, all of Scotland Yard reads John's blog. Oh of course they do.
ORANGE PIPS.
That window-in-window location was a good find. More pretty shooting.
Despite the fail-full way of presenting the information, I liked the Jim-is-gay bit. I liked it because (as with previous moments in the show and the Sussex pollen bit with the shoes just after), Sherlock has some less esoteric evidence of his deductions. Sure, he noticed Jim's tinted eyelashes and what have you else, but Jim was obviously flirting and left his number. With the shoe-pollen Holmes would've just known the mud, but Sherlock's got a computer which makes it so much easier to tell where the mud's from. I like this not-all-just-observations way of making Sherlock present information. I wish I had a better way to describe it, though.
I like how they've got an excuse for Sherlock to spend large amounts of the episode with a pink phone. *thumbs up*
Lestrade doesn't have a lot to do if he can drop everything when Sherlock gets a funny text. I mean, I know they're trying to call these bombings terrorism, but still: odd.
Also, I'm inexplicably craving hazelnut chocolates. Odd.
Cumberbatch is having fun with this, isn't he? With the voices and the being able to play slightly different characters when talking to witnesses.
More pretty shooting. From the lights turning off as they walk down the hall, to the match cut on the centred laptop.
I like to watch Sherlock too, Moriarty. I mean. How creepy this is, eh?
HA. According to Lestrade Connie Prince is 54, the news ticker said 48, and Prince's website (linked a few steps from John's blog) said she was 36. Hee!
"Good Samaritan."
"Who press-gangs suicide bombers?"
"Bad Samaritan."
LOL.
Mrs Hudson is a great character.
And Sherlock and John are the greatest fake reporter/photographers. Not that I want this to turn into John and Sherlock wacky fun time, but I do like when they get into the comedy.
I was waiting for John to yell at Sherlock for a few minutes now. Good on John. And Sherlock is wrong. He is a hero. We like cranky geniuses. If he ever watched House he'd know this.
Ha! Google fails Sherlock and he has to actually use his voice and call someone. But then when they're at the Thames he uses his smartphone to get lots of fun facts to impress everyone. Hee.
...I was about to squee at "You see but you don't observe" but then John had to go and call Lestrade and Sherlock girls. Hee. (But also my radical feminist side demands that I point out that calling someone a girl as an insult - however gently meant - is not a good thing.)
Awww, but then John distracts Sherlock by asking him to babble through his observations and deductions. Awww.
The dialogue is pretty snappy here. But it's a very natural kind of snappy.
"You... scratch their backs?"
"Yes, and then I disinfect myself."
That one fell flat for me, guys.
A professor having issues with a/v equipment? NEVER. Hee. That stuff never works right when you want it to. It's more fun when you're a TA and the tech malfunctions 'cause there's never a lesson plan hinging on the tech. Or by you I mean me. I was a bad TA if you measure TAing by how rigidly one plans a tutorial. But I'm meandering here.
This is an okay-looking action sequence, but I'm not sure what we're getting from it.
...the little old man in Argentina just happened to paint a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event into a painting that could pass as a masterwork?
Just look at John, solving Mycroft's mystery. I hope Sherlock isn't too smug when he finally shows up.
Oh, there's Sherlock now. Good, not too smug.
I like that when they heard the brother coming in, John makes sure his gun is at the ready.
Neat editing trick, with layering the coloured lighting over the brother's face before they cut to the bar itself.
Sherlock curled up in his coat on that chair with his laptop is so very cute.
This is the problem with being a Holmes fangirl is that I'm geeking out over a) Col Moran is totally the rifleman, and b) Moriarty: slightly Irish, as he should be. And the scene is all tense and stuff (John! In! Peril! and Sherlock! Is! Concerned!)
Freeman's so good. That stumble and slump was really well done. (And well edited! Go, editors!)
Tense ending! Hee! I bet they re-cut what they'd had after getting word of their renewal.
Fun series! <3
ETA: It seems I'm back into making silly icons with pre-fab web tools. I have no Photoshop cred left...
xenakis made appropriate post-VividCon icons, and since I couldn't let well enough alone, I stole them and animated them: and (The reference/meme-starter: here.)
This afternoon
extrathursday came by and we watched at least an hour of vids. Possibly more. Probably more. Time goes by fast when watching vids. We watched hours of vids. But not all the vids.To round out the evening, I watched the third episode of Sherlock:
Sherlock 1x03, "The Great Game"
Ah, an entire scene that sets up the hung/hanged bit. Clever. I like it when a writer gets to complain about the mis-use of language. (But as for me, I like my comma splice errors and will not give them up.)
AH, written by Gatiss. That's the explanation for the "I'm a writer being clever" bit. He's allowed. I'll allow it. Plus, Cumberbatch looks good lit like that.
Wait.
goodbyemyfancy told me to read the character blogs before watching this. I should do that now. After I watch Cumberbatch flop on the couch one more time. *rewinds* Hee. BBC websites read (Sherlock's and John's) and now I can continue with the episode! No wonder it takes me so long to watch one of these episodes...
HEAD IN THE FRIDGE!
Oooh, and now they're talking about the blog post. ...I can't imagine what this series is like for people who haven't read the original stories. It's just so full of references. It's a remarkably faithful adaptation, at least as far as all the canon details. Even today's Sherlock doesn't care if the earth goes around the sun or not. I wonder if John wrote up a list like Watson's, and if Sherlock found it and mocked it like Holmes did. :D
That was a flounce, Sherlock. You just flounced while sitting down. Cumberbatch, I am impressed.
Aww, Sherlock watches John leave the flat. (Mrs Hudson ftw!)
Nooo, explosions! Beautifully shot. *applauds* I'm sure Sherlock is fine. We're barely 9 minutes into the episode.
This scene is prettily shot, too. I like the cold light there.
BRUCE-PARTINGTON!
"I'D BE LOST WITHOUT MY BLOGGER." *flaily* (I'll... just be a minute here.)
Hee, all of Scotland Yard reads John's blog. Oh of course they do.
ORANGE PIPS.
That window-in-window location was a good find. More pretty shooting.
Despite the fail-full way of presenting the information, I liked the Jim-is-gay bit. I liked it because (as with previous moments in the show and the Sussex pollen bit with the shoes just after), Sherlock has some less esoteric evidence of his deductions. Sure, he noticed Jim's tinted eyelashes and what have you else, but Jim was obviously flirting and left his number. With the shoe-pollen Holmes would've just known the mud, but Sherlock's got a computer which makes it so much easier to tell where the mud's from. I like this not-all-just-observations way of making Sherlock present information. I wish I had a better way to describe it, though.
I like how they've got an excuse for Sherlock to spend large amounts of the episode with a pink phone. *thumbs up*
Lestrade doesn't have a lot to do if he can drop everything when Sherlock gets a funny text. I mean, I know they're trying to call these bombings terrorism, but still: odd.
Also, I'm inexplicably craving hazelnut chocolates. Odd.
Cumberbatch is having fun with this, isn't he? With the voices and the being able to play slightly different characters when talking to witnesses.
More pretty shooting. From the lights turning off as they walk down the hall, to the match cut on the centred laptop.
I like to watch Sherlock too, Moriarty. I mean. How creepy this is, eh?
HA. According to Lestrade Connie Prince is 54, the news ticker said 48, and Prince's website (linked a few steps from John's blog) said she was 36. Hee!
"Good Samaritan."
"Who press-gangs suicide bombers?"
"Bad Samaritan."
LOL.
Mrs Hudson is a great character.
And Sherlock and John are the greatest fake reporter/photographers. Not that I want this to turn into John and Sherlock wacky fun time, but I do like when they get into the comedy.
I was waiting for John to yell at Sherlock for a few minutes now. Good on John. And Sherlock is wrong. He is a hero. We like cranky geniuses. If he ever watched House he'd know this.
Ha! Google fails Sherlock and he has to actually use his voice and call someone. But then when they're at the Thames he uses his smartphone to get lots of fun facts to impress everyone. Hee.
...I was about to squee at "You see but you don't observe" but then John had to go and call Lestrade and Sherlock girls. Hee. (But also my radical feminist side demands that I point out that calling someone a girl as an insult - however gently meant - is not a good thing.)
Awww, but then John distracts Sherlock by asking him to babble through his observations and deductions. Awww.
The dialogue is pretty snappy here. But it's a very natural kind of snappy.
"You... scratch their backs?"
"Yes, and then I disinfect myself."
That one fell flat for me, guys.
A professor having issues with a/v equipment? NEVER. Hee. That stuff never works right when you want it to. It's more fun when you're a TA and the tech malfunctions 'cause there's never a lesson plan hinging on the tech. Or by you I mean me. I was a bad TA if you measure TAing by how rigidly one plans a tutorial. But I'm meandering here.
This is an okay-looking action sequence, but I'm not sure what we're getting from it.
...the little old man in Argentina just happened to paint a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event into a painting that could pass as a masterwork?
Just look at John, solving Mycroft's mystery. I hope Sherlock isn't too smug when he finally shows up.
Oh, there's Sherlock now. Good, not too smug.
I like that when they heard the brother coming in, John makes sure his gun is at the ready.
Neat editing trick, with layering the coloured lighting over the brother's face before they cut to the bar itself.
Sherlock curled up in his coat on that chair with his laptop is so very cute.
This is the problem with being a Holmes fangirl is that I'm geeking out over a) Col Moran is totally the rifleman, and b) Moriarty: slightly Irish, as he should be. And the scene is all tense and stuff (John! In! Peril! and Sherlock! Is! Concerned!)
Freeman's so good. That stumble and slump was really well done. (And well edited! Go, editors!)
Tense ending! Hee! I bet they re-cut what they'd had after getting word of their renewal.
Fun series! <3
ETA: It seems I'm back into making silly icons with pre-fab web tools. I have no Photoshop cred left...
