I don’t think I can emphasize enough just how much Elementary understood the core of Sherlock Holmes’ character, and the kind of cases and people he is drawn to, right from the very first episode.
The pilot opens with a wealthy woman’s murder. The prime suspect is a man who is a patient of the woman’s husband, a doctor, for help with his mental disorder. The man is desperately trying to avoid any triggers that may cause him to become violent, as he has been in the past. The doctor decides to use this man as a tool to kill his wife to collect her life insurance. He manipulates both his patient and his wife, alters the man’s medications, and ignores the man’s pleas for help, in order to set a scenario that is guaranteed to trigger the man’s violence – resulting in his wife’s death and later his patient’s.
When Sherlock pieces this together, he confronts the doctor, which leads to this:
And that’s what drives Sherlock to confront the doctor directly. There’s no smugness in being right, or for figuring out who the murderer was and how he did it. Sherlock realizes that this man’s patient was just another victim – someone who desperately wanted and sought help, only to be mistreated. Sherlock Holmes in this adaptation cares so deeply about people, especially those who are denied help when they need it most, and we learn all of this from the very first case.
i’m fond of the jokes along the lines of “you know shit’s about to hit the fan when the kazoo comes out” but i just learned what instrument actually makes that noise in the mp100 ost.
I really like how many of the world’s most iconic structures and places are just right next to some of the most mundane stuff imaginable, for example
Stonehenge
Is right next to a busy road
The Pyramids of Giza
Are at the outskirts of Cairo
Niagara Falls
Are part of the town of the same name
And Agrippa’s Pantheon
Is crammed inside downtown Rome
It just so interesting to notice.
I lived in Nîmes for three years, and the mundane feeling I got whenever I would walk from my apartment, by the Roman coloseum in the city which was 2000+ years old, and continue with my life because it was just sort of there still surprises me when I think about it.
This post is just that feeling put into words and pictures.
I loved walking into York and turning the corner to see the cathedral rising up, the heart of the city, as it was designed to be.
It’s a reminder that history doesn’t exist in a vacuum, only in books and museums and stock photos. It’s a fallen tree covered in new growth.
every time i listen to “you’re a mean one mr. grinch” i can’t help but sit there and think “what did the grinch do to hurt you?” because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt
he stole christmas, kayla! stop with your #notallgrinches propaganda!
you know what if someone told me i was a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce i’d probably be bitter enough to steal christmas too
Interestingly, though The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is narrated by Boris Karloff, the big musical number is sung by the late Thurl Ravenscroft – an American voice actor better known as the voice of Tony the Tiger.
My headcanon is that the Grinch and Tony the Tiger had a bad breakup, and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” is the resulting breakup song.
Did this really HAVE to be the first thing I see when I opened up Tumblr?
ive been avoiding reblogging this honestly but just. What the fuck. What the fuck tumblr
I apologize to all my followers for this
if i had to read this you do too
I have a hate-hate relationship with this
………
Good grief… I’m sorry, but I can’t not reblog this…
Tis the season bitches
DAMN IT WHY WOULD YOU BRING THIS BACK YOU HEATHEN
Why is this on my dash?
…..I’m.. Bothered? by the fact that I’mnot bothered by this.
You’re not bothered?? I’m not only not bothered, I’m freaking invested. I’m having actual empathetic sadness for The Grinch. I want them to go into couple’s counseling. I want the “ten years later” when Tony visits Whoville on business and meets the reformed Grinch whose heart has grown 3 times its usual size. I want them to reminisce over a shared dinner of roast beast and wine, then spend a drunken night together, then realize that maybe things are different and people really do change. I want a 3-act story where there’s a long dark night of soul searching and the realization that maybe we’ve all got a little bit of bad banana with greasy black peel inside us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make a damned fine banana bread if someone will give us a chance.
“maybe we’ve all got a little bit of bad banana with greasy black peel inside us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make a damned fine banana bread if someone will give us a chance” is an incredibly profound quote and I did NOT expect to get it from a Grinch x Tony the Tiger post
every fucking year i have to see this on my dash please just let me fucking r e s t
so many of the “i only use chat gpt for ___” excuses are concerning because people use it in place of learning basic, valuable skills.
you don’t need chat gpt to write professional sounding emails for you, there are many many guides on the internet and with a bit of practise you can learn to write them yourself. a very important skill for a professional to have, and some of the basic rules will carry over into irl conversations!
you don’t need chat gpt to be a “more detailed search engine”, because you’re robbing yourself of the chance to learn how to find and filter information on the internet and evaluate the credibility of sources. which is a VITAL skill. plus, chat gpt is notorious for being wrong?
if you use it to write essays, you’re taking away your ability to hone your research skills, your writing skills, your critical thinking skills. your ability to create persuasive arguments!
and for most of the other reasons people use chat gpt, there are non-ai websites for that! for maths, wolfram alpha. for figuring out what you can cook with the ingredients you have there’s supercook and the like. for creating routines, there’s about a million apps!
whatever you “only” use chatgpt for i promise there are better websites out there that you don’t have to worry will produce complete bullshit???? and destroy the environment???
Hasbro’s estimated value is about $9 billion. Musk could indeed buy it.
And he’d destroy it, not as fast as Twitter, but pretty damn fast, because unlike Twitter, Hasbro is not a single company with a connected set of staffers running it. WotC editors probably do not think of the CEO of Hasbro as their boss, and indeed, there may not be a way for the CEO of Hasbro to randomly hire-and-fire people of all the subsidiary companies.
Hasbro’s holdings include
Kid toys – Funskool (40%, so… it’s shared?), Playskool (incl MLP), Tonka, game things that predate the WotC purchase, like Avalon Hill
Entertainment – 70% of Astley Baker Davies (Peppa Pig), 40% of Discovery Family (most notable production is MLP:FIM)
WotC stuff, including D&D and related video games & online sites
…Musk would destroy a 100-year-old toy company because he doesn’t like dice memes.
However, it may take a move like that for legislatures to step in and say “hrm, maybe we should NOT let billionaires just do whatever they want. Maybe some companies, some activities, some products, have a value that doesn’t directly attach to their price tags.”
Because Musk would entirely be willing to buy Hasbro to make sure there’s a Tonka Cybertruck and let the whole toy-and-game industry go through a cataclysm as he tries to squeeze startup venture-capitalism money out of a multi-continental org that has an established customer base that are extremely picky. And litigious.
Twitter users and even employees didn’t find much ability to sue for the shenanigans he pulled there.
People who buy Tonka Trucks and My Little Ponies for their toddler niblings will happily join very large class-action suits if those toys are made with poisonous paint because Musk decided to cut corners in manufacturing costs.
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