A Whole lot of Holmes

Jan 28, 2012 10:53

Still loving Once Upon A Time, even though it's sort of getting dating plan-ish in its ways of keeping Snow and Charming apart - there really is only so many obstacles you can place in a ships way before it goes from being lovely to being dull and repetitive. Plus, David's being a bit of a tool. Still, Mary and David have to be the cutest adulterers on television, and I love how the show cannot go one episode without Regina and Emma (or from my perspective Regina/Emma) scene.

Thing that's been making me wonder lately with the appearance of the typewriter - was Fairytale Land a parallel universe in which magic exists, and the curse just transported everyone to the universe considered reality, or is the Fairytale Land actually fiction, and the curse instead tore down the fourth wall and breathed life into fictional characters. I thought it was the latter, but I think most of the people watching the show think it's the former. Anyway, that's the question I want most answered after the what went down between Snow and the Evil Queen.

I watched the last episode of Sherlock and the new Sherlock Holmes movie in the space of a week. Kind of weird seeing two takes on essentially the same story so close together. I liked both, Sherlock I think has had a stronger second season than it's first. None of the episodes were as good as the pilot, but it was considerably more even in quality than the first season.

I have a confession concerning Sherlock: so many people on my flist love Sherlock and feel a bit odd because while I really like it, but I just don't love it. It's not the entire reason, but I do think it's because I can't get over how bloody awful I found The Blind Banker to be.

If there's a third season, what I really want is more Lestrade. More Molly too, but definitely more Lestrade.

Whereas Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows I thought was really good as well. Two things stopped me from loving that, the first was Noomi Rapace didn't have enough to do. It's Noomi Rapace, she's amazing. She should have an Oscar for her turn was Lisbeth Salander (she's the reason I'll probably never watch the English language version of Girl With A Dragon Tattoo, it's that I think she was so brilliant, I can only spend the movie comparing Rooney Mara to her). All she had to do really in Sherlock Holmes was stand around. It was a waste of brilliant casting.

The other thing is a certain character death early in the film, which pissed me off (also: I refuse to believe that character is dead). I read shortly after seeing the movie that they did is because they want it to be like the Bond franchise. Nice work. That's the thing I hate the most about the Bond franchise.

And still continuing with the BSG re-watch. Damn, season one is sooo good. I'm really appreciating Boomer this time around and the tragedy of her story (and the sheer dumbassness of Tyrol) this time around. But also there's all this stuff happening that I short of forgot happening and am loving, like Roslin teasing Billy about his crush on Dee, or how really horribly wonderfully heart wrenching that scene between Kara and Adama in Act of Contrition (my allergies may have played up watching that scene), or just how freaking funny Baltar is.

The last episode I watched was Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down, an episode which is one of my favourites. I don't know what was going through the writer's heads when they decided that what most serious and depressing show on television really needed was a screwball comedy episode, but I'm glad they did come up with the idea. That the episode's tone is just so weird when compared to everything that came before it and everything that came after it, is so much of its charm for me. And that dinner party is one of the most awkward in all of the fiction that I have consumed.

Anyway, I shall continue. I cannot wait to get up to the Kobol/military coup/civil war arc. Kobol's Last Gleaming Part II is the point from when the show owned me first time I watched.

In case anyone hasn't seen it: Battlestar Galatica the 1990s video game RPG Hilarious for the 8-bit soundtrack version of All Along the Watchtower alone.

Lastly, does anyone think they may have guessed which vid I made for festivids? I cannot confirm or deny until reveals are made and I'm not going to give any clues, but I'd love to know if anyone thinks they've guessed it.

television, vidding, battlestar galactica, movies, once upon a time

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