DoctorAtomic

I liked the PBS masterpiece version in the 80s. What I think is essential to Sherlock is the quirkiness of the cases. It's just too weird for the police so they have to call him in. It doesn't matter the era, olden times or modern (and I do give the BBC version credit for using phones, etc., in a modern era), but the cases have to have that out there character. I do prefer an older time because you don't have easy access to phones and information. I'd say Monk probably worked well because he isn't the person who would use a phone. I liked the BBC version because the leads were fantastic together, and I prefer competent Watson to the bumbling version. I don't mind that they made him unlikeable, though they could veer a little too much there. The first series was probably the most even in that terms. I think adaptations are fine because Watson was the original narrator and he doesn't say much about Sherlock at all. You can create so many characterizations. He's smart and remembers a lot and is hyper observant. That's really the essential traits. They obviously do run into problems with not a lot of women in the stories, so adaptations can run into trouble there. Again, BBC had the coroner be a woman, so you can do things like that. I mean, they could make Lestat a woman too for a modern version. I don't know about Watson. I suppose. Nowadays writers aren't good enough to hold off on the will they/won't they. I suppose Watson could be a second cousin though. With Moriarity always somewhat in the background in the books, they could easily make the character female. It could be a cool reveal if played right. Maybe you have her in disguise as a guy a few times and then the big reveal. Totally Tatiana Maslany could pull that off.

That's always the key part. She could have said, 'oh I misspoke, you know sometimes with only 280 characters on twitter you can put your foot in your mouth. Trans people should be protected equally under the law like anyone else. Sorry. My bad.' Same with Carano, and now she's out a job. Not because of what she said. Because of tue doubling down. Everyone would have moved on. I'm continually amazed at how people can't put a modicum of effort into an apology. That's all you need. Of course, Rowling still cashes checks, so she probably doesn't care. I'm not going to make a dent in her wallet, but I've never spent money on her and won't.

There's way more stone to the construction than your average house nowadays, so I can see how they were relying on that for support to the beams.

He also said a lot of people that got severe cases had pre existing conditions too. I know he can beat on the issue too hard and can be smug about it, but I never really had a problem with the stance that we don't eat healthy enough. Sure, he can be more diplomatic about the topic, and not every person who is obese is eating chips for breakfast. But obesity is a root cause for a lot of health issues. And he was right - my doctor never brought up nutrition. I broached the topic to talk about it. If anything him getting the virus (if it's not false positive) is even more reason to make sure everyone get vaccinated and tries to maintain good health.

It's not really from FDR's pov, so I'm ok. He did have a conversation with Martha about how he was talking publicly about isolationism while telling her he knew they were going to have to get into it. And Lend Lease was covered well enough.

I just agree with the take on the 1991 direction.

I think we discussed this before, but the setting in the 60s seems a cop out to me since it's so removed from us in actually having been around. I didn't live in LA in 1991, but I lived through it, watching it unfold in real time. It happened to people that we know and we still remember it. That's the real creative risk. This just strikes me as use of the nostalgia and the IP to get viewers tbh. Which begs the question - what's the fresh take here?

Related - I know a guy that uses a monocle. A. Monocle. I'm an above average funny guy in my job. I love the one line jokes - take my wife. Please. If I see him - Hey, where's your top hat (Mr Peanut)? I want to 'harummmph' a lot. I mean. I can't be in the same room.

The Regal Beagle is arguably one of the best bar names.

I didn't not like it, but I think it wasn't fair they didn't get a two hour finale. There was a lot going on that was crammed in that could have used the extra time to breathe. There was a larger context there that Sam really didn't have time to really ponder. In the end, he basically made the decision to erase himself from time, but getting to that point was hugely rushed, and it didn't give the viewers the room to understand what was really going on.

I thought Don Knotts was funnier. But no one could smack their face on the kitchen door like Ritter.

I really was hoping Outlander would be more about the time travel. I wanted to see another iteration of trying to stop Collodeon and realizing they were making it worse.

What did you think a pussy wagon was?

I assume they all aren't particularly nice people. It's a vicious business.

I wonder why Halloween isn't a thing in France. I don't know when the show was filmed, but does covid exist in this world? I do have to say, the staircase was really good work.

So we can all play dominoes.

I hope he gets well and is ok. He's been clear about taking precautions (the audience has been masked and he's talked about testing), so, cautionary tale I suppose. I would be ticked. Snide aside - oh, no, Tyson was scheduled *eyeroll*.

I caught those later on with the Game Show network. Wow. I mean, we so need the 70s to come back right now. Could you imagine if twitter tried to cancel Richard Dawson?

That's the one. You have to read it like Lucille Bluth a la - He's out with Kitty, the whore.

All I knew from the Love Boat was that Charo was a whore. Wasn't Fantasy Island rebooted for a short stint?

That's two different things for sure. I'm not going to fault authors for having an ego. But if it's so much of a violation to them, then issue a cease and desist. I would rather my own work foster more motivation in others. Also you look like a jackass complaining about fan fiction. I think the examples we're citing here too are from authors who created their own original IP based on fan fiction itself, so pot kettle.

That cake joke is flat out brilliant. I love the one line BAM comedy. My wife called me at work. She said, 'come on over, no one is home.' She was right. I went home. No one was there.

That still seems a little condescending to me on the pov of the author. Coming into your house is trespassing. No one writing fan fiction is trying to profit off the original IP. Keeping consistent - it's someone buying the same furniture as you and arranging their own living room differently. And having a party with people commenting how much they like the living room.

That show does *not* hold up. I kind of knew what gay vaguely was, but I didn't understand why Jack couldn't live with the two women. Kind of the same. I caught some of it. Blanche - So I waved at him with my foot that was draped over Mr. Smith's shoulder. I kind of got where his face would have been. Though I wasn't entirely sure what he would be doing there. It's weird though. It's Wednesday. These are the shows you can watch. If you wanted to watch one that was on the same time as the other, too bad.

I guess this episode is dump on Martha. I can buy the cabinet falling for tabloid gossip; again, naive because you want her to have his ear. No excuse for Olav though. I'm surprised she didn't smack him.