I Should Make A Sandwich

[roguederek]

► Holy crap, is it cold this morning! Right now it's 10 degrees Celsius, 50 degrees Fahrenheit. It's supposed to get warmer this afternoon, but as of right now I'm shivering and my left leg feels icy. Mind you, I'll take this over the oppressively unbearable summer swelter.

► The case manager for Dean's short term disability claim finally

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[roguederek]

Watson in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes film is actually the most accurate portrayal of the character as he was in the original stories. Watson was a doctor, and the stories by Doyle were written as Watson's journal entries. He was not a moron. He was also a war hero having been in the army prior to meeting and teaming up with Holmes. So he was doubly capable, intellectually and physically. On top of all of that Watson was a dashing ladies man.

What happened was in the 1930s when they made the Basil Raithbone Holmes series of films Nigel Bruce was cast as Watson. Bruce's style was to play well meaning but sweetly foolish and clumsy men. Those movies because so iconic that for generations Raithbone and Bruce's portrayals became synonomis with Holmes and Watson. That skewed and coloured Watson's image in the public eye for damn near 80 years. Ever since, Watson has been played as an idiot. That's the kind of movie choice I meant when I said something like Depp's intention for Tonto and the Lone Ranger can ruin a character image.

Oh god, yeah, Sins Past. Ugh. God what a horrible idea.

My reference to The Other and making Spider-Man more like the movies was mostly how they did the elaborate set up just to give him "organic" webshooters as in the movie, and get rid of the mechanical ones he had invented. I gotta say I'm not a big Spider-Man fan or reader, so my knowledge in a lot of this is second hand, so it should be taken with a lot of salt.