The Side of the Angels

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So, despite knowing that Sherlock is supposed to die but come back, I managed to not only be crying profusely for the last ten minutes of the episode, but also be genuinely surprised to see him reappear at the end.

Now that's some great writing and acting. Thank you Stephen Thompson (the guy who wrote the episode), Benedict Cumberbatch, and Martin Freeman. Also, Andrew Scott is amazing!

Fly Dance

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Apparently, I got into college even while submitting the below as my personal statement. Now, as a random stream of consciousness piece, I think it's not bad at all...but rereading it almost five years later makes me question the sanity of the person on the admissions committee of NYU that read it and though 'Yes! We need to have this girl attend our school!"

Without further delay, I give you me, five to six years ago:

Silence will answer

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Okay, done with the first two episodes of the second half of the season, and I am quite happy with them. I think wot made me the happiest was those holographic pictures of Rose and Martha and Donna, my heart skipped a beat when they appeared, and then broke a little when the Doctor said "there must be someone left in the universe I haven't screwed up yet." I think, for the most part, it's because it made me feel like Steven Moffat was finally not pretending that the Doctor's past incarnations, and those that he travelled with, don't still affect him. In the previous season and a half, it just seemed that Moffat was just trying to make him not care any more, and, yes, new Doctor, new personality new companions, etc. etc. but regardless of his incarnations, his memories and the feelings attached tot hem aren't any different. So his loss and love of Rose, his pain due to losing Martha and the constant threat of her remembering and dying because of it, it should still be there inside, driving him.

So thank you Moffat, thank you for allowing the guilt and pain and memories to resurface. As an incredibly nostalgic person, I really do appreciate it.

Also, I quite enjoyed explaining away River's lack of regeneration in Forest of the Dead, and am intrigued as to what this question is. Could it be the same question that we're trying to figure out about Life, the Universe, and Everything? Because if so, I know the answer.

Geek Problems

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I was pretty convinced I could speak in a British accent too, after a month of nonstop Who and Sherlock and reading Harry Potter out loud to my little brother (I try and do the voices, he seems to think they're accurate). I'd just hear the voices in my head and it's sound so right...and then I'd speak and realize how very wrong my initial confidence was.

There's so much reading to do on Marketing Management and Multimedia Financial Analysis (two of the classes I'm taking) that I have yet to do...but instead I'm making sure my blog gets updated at least twice a day. Priorities, right?

I'm only partially joking, I'm going to have my readings done. I can't fall back on work so soon, that would be a little ridiculous (like this clahs).

You've been Cumberbatched

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It's like being punked, but with a lot more sass, less Ashton (thank God), some deducing, and a sexier-as-a-brunette man behind the scenes. 

Silly name competition

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Yeah, our dear Sherlock wins by a landslide. Though I feel like Eccly should have dealt a little more damage than that.

Sherlock Holmes and the ever present Doctor

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Apparently our dear Mr. Holmes isn't as perceptive as we previously thought he was.

High aspirations

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“The Doctor strikes me as a sort of, like an angel who aspires to be human. Whereas Sherlock Holmes is a human being who aspires to be a god.”

-Stephen Moffat

Sher Block

This is amazing. Also, it says 'best applied generously by a qualified medical professional,' naturally that means I expect the Doctor to apply it. *waggle*waggle*

Elementary my dear

The most recent incarnations of Sherlock Holmes have made me quite happy and increased my desire to go back and reread the books. I mean, both the tv series and the blockbuster movie (soon to be movies) are well acted, well scripted and entertaining, so I don't see why I wouldn't like them. In addition, Robert Downey Jr. is absolutely charming and his bromance with Jude Law in the movie is the most adorable thing to experience.

          As for Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman (loved him in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), I like that we're seeing the relationship pre-established friendship and watching the connection grow. Also, Cumberbatch does a fantastic job of being a douchey, fantastically brilliant sociopath. I feel like I would have reacted the same way to him as Freeman's Watson, with the repetitive bursts of 'that's brilliant!'

          Also, is it just me or does Benedict Cumberbatch look so much better as a brunette than a ginger? I'm not hating against gingers, I feel the same way about James Marsters being a natural brunette, I just prefer him when he's blonde. It's a completely arbitrary aesthetic preference for how it suits their complexion/other facial features and changes entirely from person to person. 

Stupidity at it's Finest

The moment you realize that you have a paper due in less than a week, and that you missed the class where this was announced. Also, you haven't been keeping up with the reading.