So I assume they are going to kill House tonight. They've killed him in almost every season finale, it would seem a bit weird not to kill him for the series finale. I just hope whatever they end up doing tonight is good, it was a good series it deserves a good ending. (I want to say it was a great series but..Tritter, Huddy, etc.)
Hugh Laurie was awesome all the way through though, no matter what the writers threw at him. I'm sure tonight will be no exception.
I'm particularly attached to this series and to the character of House and not just because I would happily watch Hugh Laurie read the Sunday Times. We started watching it during a time when I was very sick and waiting to find out what was going on with me that was causing all sorts of delightful nuero symptoms. And, because life is not House, we had weeks and months of time to kill in between MRIs and various fun tests. (Spinal taps? Surprisingly not as bad as they look. Though to be fair they look pretty darned heinous.)
It was a nice bit of escapism to watch a show that takes place in a world where tests results come back in minutes not weeks. And where a team of doctors literally worked together in one room to figure out what was going on rather than sending each other emails and memos. When my PT had me start using a cane (it was that or I was not allowed to go outside by myself though I'd like to know how my HMO expected to enforce that) we joked that we would tell people I was just a really big House fan. (Never happened- people were nervy enough to ask about my cane but I wasn't nervy enough to be a smart aleck about it. Nowadays I just tell people I have balance issues, telling people you have MS is just asking to hear either about their friend who died within six months of being diagnosed or their second cousin who has it but "Doesn't let it get him/her down" and "still runs marathons" Mazel tov. My favorite are the people (yes, more than one) who look at me quizzically and say "You have a mess?"
But I digress. I will miss House the character, it was cathartic to see him railing against his pain and his body failing him instead of keeping a stiff upper lip like everyone expects people to do.
And I feel very silly saying this but if you happen to be a Sherlock Holmes fan but somehow have missed every incarnation ever of Riechenbach Falls then run away from your monitor and go read/watch one of them. I'll wait. Additionally if you are in the US and haven't seen the last episode of season 2 of Sherlock turn back, I don't want to risk spoiling any details for you. Other than to say- I am jealous of you for still getting to look forward to seeing it for the first time because hells yes, it is that good.
Haha, I write all that like I have readers....anyhoo..
We went and saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie and adored it. I liked it even better than the first one and I liked the first one very well. Normally I'm not one for action movies but I do like the Guy Ritchie films I've seen and I think he does a bang up job with these. And owing largely to the heart breaking look on R.D.Jr's face just before the climax of the film I thought- "That's it, no one is ever going to do that scene better" And then...Sherlock..Oh, how that show killed me. In a good way of course. Sherlock on the phone with John? CRYING? Too gorgeous. And the jump itself seemed to me to be very reminiscent of the one in the Granada series. Pretty stuff all around. Here's hoping John doesn't have to wait three years for the big reveal. Watson had Mary, John doesn't so I hope they don't prolong his suffering. Because poor, poor John. Such a good job by both actors, really gorgeous stuff.
I was a bit afraid with what direction they would go with Sherlock and I was pleased to see them humanizing him a bit. The idea of Sherlock Holmes high functioning sociopath is kind of delightful in it's own way but it's good to see him apologizing to Molly and sticking up for Mrs. Hudson.
About his interactions with Irene Adler- fabulous! Lovely to see him thrown like that and I think they did a great job with his fascination with her. And she was so well cast! Really the casting director for this thing needs a Bafta or an Emmy if they haven't already gotten one, or a armful of them.
We sucessfully moved our stuff, ourselves and our five cats back to the West Coast. Quite the ordeal especially for my husband (who along with my SIL drove the whole way with five cats in the car. A heroic fete indeed.)
Recently our daughter was asking me about her 48 hour EEG. To her it was apparently a pretty pleasant memory of unlimited screen time, eating in bed and being introduced to the wonders of Crayola's air dry clay. (Via the art cart.) Not mentioned- the glue that stayed in her hair for a week because she could only take so much of me using acetone on her at one time or the fact that she was terrified of the guy whose job it was to refil the diode goo as it dried up. (He had this huge syringe like thing that he had to use on the diodes which were on her head so you can hardly blame her for being leery.) I'm glad for the way she recalls the ordeal. Children are amazingly resilliant. And I'm grateful for all the tests and medical procedures that she doesn't remember.
Like the time she had to be knocked out for an MRI and it took four nurses to get the IV into her. Whatever blessed drug they gave her that day had an amnesiac affect and by the time she woke up she didn't even remember dropping our son off at school before we went to the hospital. All she took away from that event, even on the very day it happened was her a Barbie doll (a freebie from the Children's hospital. Whoever it was who donated that Barbie, you forever have a place in my heart.)
Hmm? No, I'm pretty sure it was, I watched the whole darned thing.
Well we'll just have to agree to disagree on that point.
At any rate. Does anyone remember that medical procedure show they had a while back? The one with the guy with the limp? Starred Hugh Laurie? AND WAS AWESOME? Yeah, I miss that show. It's not good when I only figure out who the pacient of the week is supposed to be because we're too far into the show to get anyone else. It's also not good when I'm not entirely sure when they've found a sollution for him. It was only when he didn't reappear that I was like "Oh really? That was the real sollution? Toad roe. Huh."
And who ever thought I would be longing for the scenes Hugh Laurie WASN'T in? Has the world gone mad? I'll admit I wasn't big on the whole Huddy idea but I thought the people who wailed that it would ruin the show were exagerating. But if it keeps on going like this? Gah. Might just have to start watching my Jeeves and Wooster DVDs on Monday nights.
A lot of it boils down to- is it freaky enough to warrant hundreds of dollars in co-pays? Though I do find MRIs oddly relaxing there are a lot of other things I'd rather spend money on.
But people. Please explain to me why half the Sherlock fanfic I'm coming across is Sherlock/OC (female). Seriously. 500 words or less. Single spaced. I MUST UNDERSTAND THIS INEXPLICABLE PHENOMONOM. Sherlock falls in love? Sherlock has a crush on a female relative of John's? Sherlock has a daughter? Adopts a puppy? Goes speed dating? GUYS??
Of course the fun of fanfic is that you can do what you like with the characters you love. But...I guess I always felt like if you fundimentally change the characters you love then they are now new characters with that character's name and eye colour.
