Lee Mack is more attractive with every episode of Would I Lie To You? I watch. This is worrying. He's brilliantly funny, but I was not expecting this. (Also, I am totally 'shipping Lee Mack/Kate Silverton after the most recent episode. He leapt in to challenge the opposing team's questioning of her! Brydon observed that they were like a couple! I had to suppress an 'awww!' because I was watching with my family and it would have seemed ridiculous!)
Anyway, hello! Sorry for vanishing without notice for the past week; I've been on holiday in the Midlands with my family, which was lovely. I'll probably make an entry about that sooner or later, but first I wanted to talk about the BBC's Sherlock.
( Spoilers for the entire first series of Sherlock. )
On a non-spoilery note, I dreamt a couple of nights ago that I was Clank, a tiny robot from a videogame series called Ratchet and Clank, and I was giving the BBC's Watson advice on relationships.
Clank: What you want is to be alone.
Watson: (unimpressed look) That's exactly the opposite of what I want.
Clank: I meant alone together.
The gist was 'you have too many people in your life; it's preventing you from forming really meaningful relationships; cut all your ties and run away to live with me and Sherlock for ever'.
It was, in retrospect, really bad advice.
Since then, I appear to have scribbled down a few snippets of a Sherlock/Ratchet and Clank crossover, in which Watson is trapped on an alien planet and teams up with Clank to find Holmes. THERE IS NO MARKET FOR THIS. NONE. NOBODY READS RATCHET AND CLANK FANFICTION, LET ALONE CROSSOVERS BETWEEN RATCHET AND CLANK AND SOMETHING COMPLETELY ILLOGICAL, BASED ON A DREAM. Why do I never write things people might actually want to read?
Finally: I am adoring Watson's blog. His writeups of cases may not be great, but the comments! Comments from Holmes and Sarah and Mrs Hudson (regarding the Study in Pink case: 'This is exciting. I am writing this on Mrs Turner's computer. One of her lodgers is trying to get me to join Facebook but I have told him I don't want to poke people. I am writing this to you from next door.' She is sort of adorable!) and Harry and Molly and 'theimprobableone', who leaves amusingly dramatic comments and whom I thought at first to be Moriarty before realising he was just a massive Sherlock Holmes fanboy. Holmes criticises Watson's writeups and Watson tells him to buy milk in return! I love it.
The blog is breaking my heart for Harry, though. She so clearly desperately wants to have a good relationship with her brother. She's immature and a bit annoying, but there's a real need to be closer to John that comes through in her comments; look at the way she comments on almost everything he posts, for one thing, and her frequent requests for contact:
Who's Ella?? You got yourself a woman at last? What's she like?xx x Send a pic!!!
Are we meeting up soon?!
What!? Answer your phone!!!
Seriously, John! What's going on?? Are you alright?!!
You can't just leave it at that!!! Tell me what happened!
Ooh! A new case!! So when do I get to come and visit?!?!
I'm going to have to meet Sarah one day!
Will you please answer your phone! Where are you?
In summary: my heart. She loves him. He's ashamed of her. I really hope further episodes of Sherlock address the relationship between them.
Anyway, hello! Sorry for vanishing without notice for the past week; I've been on holiday in the Midlands with my family, which was lovely. I'll probably make an entry about that sooner or later, but first I wanted to talk about the BBC's Sherlock.
( Spoilers for the entire first series of Sherlock. )
On a non-spoilery note, I dreamt a couple of nights ago that I was Clank, a tiny robot from a videogame series called Ratchet and Clank, and I was giving the BBC's Watson advice on relationships.
Clank: What you want is to be alone.
Watson: (unimpressed look) That's exactly the opposite of what I want.
Clank: I meant alone together.
The gist was 'you have too many people in your life; it's preventing you from forming really meaningful relationships; cut all your ties and run away to live with me and Sherlock for ever'.
It was, in retrospect, really bad advice.
Since then, I appear to have scribbled down a few snippets of a Sherlock/Ratchet and Clank crossover, in which Watson is trapped on an alien planet and teams up with Clank to find Holmes. THERE IS NO MARKET FOR THIS. NONE. NOBODY READS RATCHET AND CLANK FANFICTION, LET ALONE CROSSOVERS BETWEEN RATCHET AND CLANK AND SOMETHING COMPLETELY ILLOGICAL, BASED ON A DREAM. Why do I never write things people might actually want to read?
Finally: I am adoring Watson's blog. His writeups of cases may not be great, but the comments! Comments from Holmes and Sarah and Mrs Hudson (regarding the Study in Pink case: 'This is exciting. I am writing this on Mrs Turner's computer. One of her lodgers is trying to get me to join Facebook but I have told him I don't want to poke people. I am writing this to you from next door.' She is sort of adorable!) and Harry and Molly and 'theimprobableone', who leaves amusingly dramatic comments and whom I thought at first to be Moriarty before realising he was just a massive Sherlock Holmes fanboy. Holmes criticises Watson's writeups and Watson tells him to buy milk in return! I love it.
The blog is breaking my heart for Harry, though. She so clearly desperately wants to have a good relationship with her brother. She's immature and a bit annoying, but there's a real need to be closer to John that comes through in her comments; look at the way she comments on almost everything he posts, for one thing, and her frequent requests for contact:
Who's Ella?? You got yourself a woman at last? What's she like?xx x Send a pic!!!
Are we meeting up soon?!
What!? Answer your phone!!!
Seriously, John! What's going on?? Are you alright?!!
You can't just leave it at that!!! Tell me what happened!
Ooh! A new case!! So when do I get to come and visit?!?!
I'm going to have to meet Sarah one day!
Will you please answer your phone! Where are you?
In summary: my heart. She loves him. He's ashamed of her. I really hope further episodes of Sherlock address the relationship between them.
