Miss Dee

You might like Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crimes series. Basically lots of classic nursery rhyme characters (with some folklore and literature thrown in) meets hard-boiled detective novel. There are only two books so far - The Big Over-Easy and The Fourth Bear - but they're highly enjoyable.

Most people are guessing Izzie and Alex. Not that anyone's expecting Heigl to be welcomed back with open arms, but there were those fertilized eggs... if she used one, died recently and Alex found out he had a kid.... That's the going theory on TV Line anyway (no credit to me, I'm just the messenger).

All too true. There's a comedy movie in there somewhere. Or maybe a Wes Anderson type thing.

Aw, I have a soft spot for poor Fanny, just trying to be dutiful and do what's right. It's easy to be a rootable heroine when you're spunky and disobedient to the conventions and mores around you. I thought Jane Austen was trying to do something very different in Fanny (and Anne too, really). Maybe she got interested when her audience liked Emma far more than she thought they would, and wanted the challenge of writing a female heroine who didn't seem very heroic on the surface. And Fanny is heroic, in her own way. She endures a lot and faces considerable pressures that she resists. She's not your typical protagonist, and I appreciate her differences even while acknowledging her brand of heroine doesn't end up in the wacky adventures of your standard Anne Shirleys, Pippi Longstockings and Lizzie Bennets. They're easy to like and root for because we all aim to be like them in some way or another. Not a lot of us want to be like Fanny; quite the opposite: we're often afraid we are like Fanny and we hate that about ourselves. A book about a person like Fanny, where being like Fanny is maybe not such a bad thing and shows how even the non-spunky nevertheless have colour and adventures and romance, is refreshing. To link this to another fandom: I think you see this with Arya and Sansa of Game of Thrones too. Hardly anyone dislikes Arya, the unconventional young girl who hates dresses, enjoys swordfighting and wants a life where she doesn't have to marry and settle down. Sansa, who dreams about the conventional life and tries to be obedient and has courtly romance swooning through her head is far more divisive. If there's a heaven and Jane Austen is there, then I'd love to get her take on these two characters. The woman who wrote Lizzie and Emma and Marianne, but also wrote Elinor and Fanny and Anne, would have something interesting to say on how a reader sees these two types.

That's the one! I saw it for the first time a few days ago and it made me cry.

Yes I saw that one! Very touching. Does anyone have a link to the WWI ad about the Christmas truce?

Yeah, I don't see how you can make an audience of thousands laugh for an hour straight and not be considered a comic. Granted, he's intelligent and a lot of his material is carefully crafted and well thought out and doesnt rely on overly gratuitous language or gross-out humour for cheap laughs. That's unlike about 90% of the comics I've seen.

An Elementary/Flash crossover can't be far behind!!

I think it depends on the quality. Person of Interest went from a great procedural to a stellar serialized show, and I was on board all the way. It still blends some procedural aspects into itself, though. Sleepy Hollow supposedly went to a more procedural format, but I would say it's more like Burn Notice. And Person of Interest, for that matter. Behold the mulleted show: procedural in the front, serial in the back! But if a show was doing either procedural or serial really well, and then attempted to do the other in a not so well manner, that would get on my nerves.

Damn, he's really kind of hot, you know. Don't blame Fry one bit.

I must be ambiseriesus then, because I love serialized stories and procedurals.

In my part of the world, evaporated milk is the choice for tea and coffee. Also used a lot in baking and cooking. My parents' generation could get canned more readily than freah; my mom still has cereal with half evaporated milk and half water. And Carnation is the beverage of choice; everything else is a poor imitation!

Good God. So to get high ratings, the man has to become a complete political animal to get that demographic and, at the same time, completely eschew politics to satisfy another demographic? Can there be a third group made of people like me who enjoys him just fine?

I want to see some Abbie/Joe scenes. I have a feeling there could be a lot of meat there.

I'm with you, phoenics. I don't see anything in that article to get pissed off with.

No worries phoenics; you and I are on the same page on this, I'm pretty sure!

I don't think the show is going to come back and have declarations of love within three episodes. I think it's more likely Ichabod will realize his feelings with Abbie gone, then have to deal with that realization once she's back and expecting everything to go back to normal. I think it'll take a different crisis for Abbie to come to the same realization, and it'll happen later. A, she's got walls a mile high and it's going to take longer. Hopefully sacrificing herself for Jenny will assuage her guilt and that'll start toppling them. B, the writers know past seasons have seen Ichabod lose his focus and put other things before the Witness bond. They may want to offset that with fandom and to rebalance the story by having him realize his feelings first and have him be devoted to Abbie's happiness in an unrequited way.

Compare fandom's reaction to Joss Carter at the beginning of her stint on Person of Interest to the end of it. Night and Day. And normally I just laugh and ignore it, but in Sleepy Hollow's case I'm afraid the bitterness is going to get the show cancelled. And it doesn't deserve it, not now.

Thanks shimpy. I haven't read the journals, but I have read Emily a million times (roughly) and I just never got the sense that Emily was to be considered a molested child, even in subtext. But all that said, if I ever met an adult who didn't get the concept of "grooming" children, I'd tell them to read the Emily books and pay particular attention to Dean. I know she didn't mean to, but he's a really good illustration.

Lol. "Man." Typing on my phone in a hurry is not conducive to impeccable spelling.

I loved the special last night. The MA writes intelligent material. And I love his delivery. He has one of those faces and voices that looks and sounds so sweet and adorable when he's saying something that it masks the sarcasm, pointedness and even anger very well. I hope he continues to do stand up as he hosts the Daily Show; I'll be watching.

Maybe start a thread here that discusses Trevor's stand-up comedy in general?

*shrugs* To each their own. I don't think a modern read of the Emily series can separate what we know psychologically today from the story; Dean in particular is always going to stand out as ringing major alarm bells. But I stand by my assertion that I don't think it's what the author intended at the time she wrote it.

It would make a good series with the right cast and showrunners who know and can bring the tone of the books to the show. Although I recommend they keep the casting for Ranger; that was spot-on.

If they finally bring my dream 'ship of Betty/Jughead to fruition, I will watch the *shit* out of that Riverdale series.