Shoscombe and Scandal
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prof_pangaeaWednesday night Tim and I watched the Granada adaptation of Shoscombe Old Place which I had SOMEHOW managed to never see (picked it up at the library, oh yeah), and then watched Easy Rider, while I made homework type things.
Easy Rider: Way, WAY overrated. Yikes.
Shoscombe Old Place: Holy crap!!!! I will cut this for spoilers, in case anyone actually cares (for all puzzled parties this is an episode of Sherlock Holmes, I'm talking about). Also included under cut: wittering about the BBC episode of SCAN.
Firstly, JUDE LAW. He popped up as "random hot young guy who wants to be a jockey and practically says he'll do ANYTHING to be one". Which is interesting when the main character in the story is an older man who owns a stables and also happens to be a confirmed bachelor. Still, even I did not expect that the solution to the mystery would be HOLMES DRAMATICALLY UNVEILING JUDE LAW IN A DRESS.
Awesome.
Also, listened to Scandal in Bohemia on BBC7 at lunch and AH, there was much goodness. It has long been noticed that Watson's very insistence upon Holmes' non-emotions in the opening paragraph is really an indicator of the opposite, but Coules' device of cutting to the terrible shouting match that Holmes and Watson had about love at the end of The Sign of the Four was even more effective, and more poignant. And then Watson's lines about, "My marriage had drifted us away from eachother. My own complete happiness, and the home-centered interests which rise up around the man who finds himself the master of his own establishment were sufficient to absorb all my attention. While Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole bohemian soul remained alone in our old lodgings, buried among his books and his chemicals, and alternating, so I presume, between cocaine and ambition."
Also, the whole "Mrs. Turner" weirdness is nicely explained by Mrs. Hudson being ill, and Turner being her cousin who came to help out. I thought Watson's immediate reaction to the Mrs. Hudson's illness was interesting:
Watson: Mrs. Hudson, you shouldn't let him wear you into the ground -- why didn't you send for me?
Mrs. Hudson: Now doctor, you have your own life to lead, and a good woman to be thinking of.
Holmes and Watson seeing eachother for the first time in months (it almost seems as though the last time might have been Watson's wedding) is appropriately stiff and somewhat painful.
Watson: [quietly] Good evening, Holmes.
[awkward pause]
Holmes: Watson.
Watson: I was... passing the door.
Holmes: ... Pray, come in.
Watson: Thank you. [comes inside. another pause] It's a cold night.
Holmes: Wedlock suits you. You've put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you last.
Watson: Seven.
Holmes: Just a trifle more, I fancy.
Watson: Perhaps.
[awkward pause]
Holmes: ...You are back in practise, but your list is not yet a long one. Tonight, you called upon a patient of a prosperous household to which to travelled in a four-wheeler. You got yourself very wet lately, and you have the most clumsy and careless servant girl. Would you care for a whiskey?
[both start laughing, and they are friends again]
Other bits:
Holmes: [suddenly] And, eh, goodnight to you.
Watson: [surprised] Oh. Goodnight.
Holmes: [casually] Would you care to call tomorrow afternoon, at three?
Watson: With pleasure. Thank you.
Holmes: Excellent. I should value a chat with you then.
Watson: 'Til tomorrow then. Holmes.... It was good to see you again. Goodnight.
Holmes: [very casually] Goodnight. [door closes, Holmes sighs]
Holmes: [to Watson] I was standing as close to her... as I am to you. Closer.
Watson: I don't think I've ever felt more... heartily ashamed of myself.
Holmes: My dear fellow.
Watson: When I saw that beautiful creature, and the way she treated you...
Holmes: I thought you objected to her morals, Watson --
Watson: Dammit, Holmes, she's a kind and graceful woman, and we were conspiring against her!
Holmes: Yes. [pause] Lay aside your scruples, doctor! A job is a job, and it worked perfectly.
Ah, can't wait for The Red-Headed League.
Easy Rider: Way, WAY overrated. Yikes.
Shoscombe Old Place: Holy crap!!!! I will cut this for spoilers, in case anyone actually cares (for all puzzled parties this is an episode of Sherlock Holmes, I'm talking about). Also included under cut: wittering about the BBC episode of SCAN.
Firstly, JUDE LAW. He popped up as "random hot young guy who wants to be a jockey and practically says he'll do ANYTHING to be one". Which is interesting when the main character in the story is an older man who owns a stables and also happens to be a confirmed bachelor. Still, even I did not expect that the solution to the mystery would be HOLMES DRAMATICALLY UNVEILING JUDE LAW IN A DRESS.
Awesome.
Also, listened to Scandal in Bohemia on BBC7 at lunch and AH, there was much goodness. It has long been noticed that Watson's very insistence upon Holmes' non-emotions in the opening paragraph is really an indicator of the opposite, but Coules' device of cutting to the terrible shouting match that Holmes and Watson had about love at the end of The Sign of the Four was even more effective, and more poignant. And then Watson's lines about, "My marriage had drifted us away from eachother. My own complete happiness, and the home-centered interests which rise up around the man who finds himself the master of his own establishment were sufficient to absorb all my attention. While Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole bohemian soul remained alone in our old lodgings, buried among his books and his chemicals, and alternating, so I presume, between cocaine and ambition."
Also, the whole "Mrs. Turner" weirdness is nicely explained by Mrs. Hudson being ill, and Turner being her cousin who came to help out. I thought Watson's immediate reaction to the Mrs. Hudson's illness was interesting:
Watson: Mrs. Hudson, you shouldn't let him wear you into the ground -- why didn't you send for me?
Mrs. Hudson: Now doctor, you have your own life to lead, and a good woman to be thinking of.
Holmes and Watson seeing eachother for the first time in months (it almost seems as though the last time might have been Watson's wedding) is appropriately stiff and somewhat painful.
Watson: [quietly] Good evening, Holmes.
[awkward pause]
Holmes: Watson.
Watson: I was... passing the door.
Holmes: ... Pray, come in.
Watson: Thank you. [comes inside. another pause] It's a cold night.
Holmes: Wedlock suits you. You've put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you last.
Watson: Seven.
Holmes: Just a trifle more, I fancy.
Watson: Perhaps.
[awkward pause]
Holmes: ...You are back in practise, but your list is not yet a long one. Tonight, you called upon a patient of a prosperous household to which to travelled in a four-wheeler. You got yourself very wet lately, and you have the most clumsy and careless servant girl. Would you care for a whiskey?
[both start laughing, and they are friends again]
Other bits:
Holmes: [suddenly] And, eh, goodnight to you.
Watson: [surprised] Oh. Goodnight.
Holmes: [casually] Would you care to call tomorrow afternoon, at three?
Watson: With pleasure. Thank you.
Holmes: Excellent. I should value a chat with you then.
Watson: 'Til tomorrow then. Holmes.... It was good to see you again. Goodnight.
Holmes: [very casually] Goodnight. [door closes, Holmes sighs]
Holmes: [to Watson] I was standing as close to her... as I am to you. Closer.
Watson: I don't think I've ever felt more... heartily ashamed of myself.
Holmes: My dear fellow.
Watson: When I saw that beautiful creature, and the way she treated you...
Holmes: I thought you objected to her morals, Watson --
Watson: Dammit, Holmes, she's a kind and graceful woman, and we were conspiring against her!
Holmes: Yes. [pause] Lay aside your scruples, doctor! A job is a job, and it worked perfectly.
Ah, can't wait for The Red-Headed League.
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Date: 2005-03-12 01:40 am (UTC)And I have never seen Shoscombe Old Place. Waiting for money to get my hands on the episodes in Casebook. I can't believe you actually have a library that has the episodes.
and AGH! JUDE LAW! PRETTY! SO MUCH PRETTY!
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Date: 2005-03-12 02:45 am (UTC)Agh. I really must get a grasp on when these episodes are playing where *I* am! I keep missing them. Of course, that would require looking up just what GMT and EST mean, and which one I live in... (I know, I should be shot for my ignorance of basic things like this).
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Date: 2005-03-12 04:50 pm (UTC)http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain
This is very good as I have no internet at home -- I've got to go to school or the library to have my BBC fun.
As for a library that carries such films, well, it's because I live in Chicago, and I also happen to live very near a LARGE library (not the GIGANTIC one dowtown, but pretty good). They only have a few, and somehow I had not noticed that I'd NEVER seen that episode (for some reason, I always forget what happens in the story, and also The Retired Colourman. Why, I don't know).
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Date: 2005-03-12 04:52 pm (UTC)Address for Listen Again right above your comment. ^_^ I wrote it down in my initial post, too.
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Date: 2005-03-12 06:59 pm (UTC)"What the deuce is it (the solar system) to me? You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or my work."
I am very much the same way, in that respect. I don't usually bother looking things up (like time zones) unless they directly affect me or my life.
Anyway, thank you for reminding me about the Listen Again feature. I hope to catch at least one episode when I go back to Troy. :) How can neither of my parents' computers have speakers?! Gah.
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Date: 2005-03-12 08:50 pm (UTC)As for Holmes' quote, it is not only wrong (factually, I mean), but I've always thought he said it just to mess with Watson. As have many scholars, in fact. Part of his whole, "I just moved in with the guy, I'm going to act normal for a while just to bother him because I've noticed that he keeps watching me and making lists about things that I do" thing in A Study in Scarlet. He's got a weird sense of humour. ^_^
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Date: 2005-03-12 09:05 pm (UTC)I really don't watch a lot of actual television at all anymore, since Brandon started downloading entire seasons of shows (such as L&O and L&O:SVU). And when I do watch something on TV, I usually just ignore that stuff about time zones. I mean, if I look on the TV Guide channel, or Zap2It.com (which is an online tv guide), it just tells me that L&O is on at 10:00pm. That's all I need to know.
In fact, other than TV (which I hardly watch anymore), and knowing when I can call friends who live in different time zones (which would just be you, actually), the time zones don't affect my life directly.
Heh. This reminds me of the time in high school when you were completely flabbergasted that I didn't know who Tony Blair was. Well, I know who he is now! ^_^ And I will certainly never forget now that I live in the Eastern Standard Time zone.
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Date: 2005-03-12 09:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-08 07:08 am (UTC)Besides, Jack! Nicholson!