Oh for a muse of fire, indeed
Sherlock 2.02: watched it, was less than enthusiastic about it. I mean, it had its moments, and it was nice to see Russell Tovey again, plus I must say tanned!Lestrade looks even more attractive than regular Lestrade, but well, I checked my watch a couple of times instead of being scared when I should have been, and I doubt I'll ever watch it again. This being said, bonus points to Gatiss for female!Dr. Mortimer and female!Stapleton, and also seeing Dartmoor reminded me of being quite taken by Devon a few years back when I made my all around Britain journey. As far as Mark Gatiss episodes go, he has done worse, he has done better. (I still say he should stick to acting.) Basically: it was okay, but no more. And next we await the return of the celebrated author of "The Blind Banker" and "The Only Bad Pirate Episode Ever".
Also yesterday I met an Oxfordian who kept harrassing me, no matter what I told him about my Will-from-Stratford allegiances. "Even a profiler on the internet proved it HAS to be Edward de Vere!" he wailed. "EVERYONE agrees by now." Just to make my evening complete, someone told me the theatre of my hometown staged Macbeth last year with a programm saying it was by Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. And a third party asked me whether I had watched the Emmerich film. See, the drawback of real life is you can't just click on another link or switch off the computer. The best statement of the evening, though: "THIS WILLIAM VON SHAKESPEARE DID NOT EXIST, I TELL YOU!" Seriously, he called him "William von Shakespeare". See, that kind of thing would never happen to Christopher Marlowe. Excuse me, von Marlowe.
On to more fun things. The first time I saw a screen depiction of Nikola Tesla wasn't in Sanctuary but in The Prestige, where I didn't realise until afterwards, when reviews pointed it out, that he was played by David Bowie. (And magnetically, too, no pun intended, it's just that I seriously didn't recognize Bowie.) Here's an article about Bowie and Tesla, , for those of us fond of both.
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Also yesterday I met an Oxfordian who kept harrassing me, no matter what I told him about my Will-from-Stratford allegiances. "Even a profiler on the internet proved it HAS to be Edward de Vere!" he wailed. "EVERYONE agrees by now." Just to make my evening complete, someone told me the theatre of my hometown staged Macbeth last year with a programm saying it was by Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. And a third party asked me whether I had watched the Emmerich film. See, the drawback of real life is you can't just click on another link or switch off the computer. The best statement of the evening, though: "THIS WILLIAM VON SHAKESPEARE DID NOT EXIST, I TELL YOU!" Seriously, he called him "William von Shakespeare". See, that kind of thing would never happen to Christopher Marlowe. Excuse me, von Marlowe.
On to more fun things. The first time I saw a screen depiction of Nikola Tesla wasn't in Sanctuary but in The Prestige, where I didn't realise until afterwards, when reviews pointed it out, that he was played by David Bowie. (And magnetically, too, no pun intended, it's just that I seriously didn't recognize Bowie.) Here's an article about Bowie and Tesla, , for those of us fond of both.
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