I'm so weak. I'm watching the first episode of the new House season. I'd decided that it was over, that the show had jumped all kinds of marine wildlife, and still I'm watching it.

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I'm extremely picky about my Sherlock Holmes. The portrayal of him, I mean. For the longest time only Jeremy Brett would do. However I've been sufficiently intrigued by BBC's new Series Sherlock to try and watch it. It is an updated version of the characters, which helped me, I think.

John Watson is still a military doctor back from a grueling tour ( Read more... )

He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every ( Read more... )

Apparently there has been a minor uproar over something Stephen Fry said in a Q & A session following his BAFTA speech.

Then Ron Liddle adds a little snark. Unlike Fry, this is pretty much what we'd call trolling on the ol' internet.

Do you think there's something to it? I'm not just thinking about Doctor Who (which has alway been intended as a show ( Read more... )

There is something deeply creepy about the way we humans allow morals to dictate our actions. We get locked in these patterns where we recognise an evil, but are incapable of seeing the evil that is created by our actions when we fight said evil. People involved in a situation become predators or victims, causes or fall-out.

Watching Breaking Bad ( Read more... )

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Much to my delight it's snowing again. Watching it makes my anxiety drain away, bit by bit. It's like watching an hourglass fill up in slo-mo ( Read more... )