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localfreakYesterday was quite good although I was very,very tired by the time the dinner had been cooked and I'd done all the washing up. So I watched Wreck It Ralph and re-watched Tangled which were on the telly followed by the new Sherlock.
I really liked Wreck-It Ralph actually, though I missed the beginning. It was very cleverly done and quirky. Tangled had me in tears, as is the norm for most films these days. It's just that her parents look SO SAD and they've been missing their daughter for EIGHTEEN YEARS and it's all just heartbreaking.
Sherlock I... didn't really like. Which was disappointing. I didn't hate all of it. I absolutely adored every single tiny second Mycroft and Lestrade were onscreen. Particularly Mycroft, of course.
Initially, before we knew it was a drug-dream sequence (pfft) I was quite annoyed by the anachronisms, not just in the scenes but Sherlock's conversation with Mrs Hudson was very much so, and then the phrase "shotgun wedding" derailed me for a good few minutes whilst I pondered and then gave in and had to look it up to confirm that it is indeed anachronistic (1904, American) and OOC. THEN they had to go and mess up the Diogenes club, which would've been so good but Sign Language- no matter how useful it might be and how it provided space for a cheap lost-in-translation gag would NOT have been seen in what would be termed "polite society". This is still an era in which the "Deaf and Dumb" rich would be prisoners of their own household, and the poor would struggle to be treated as anything more than imbeciles. It's horrible but THAT'S HOW IT WAS. And the whole thing about the suffragists? Because of that I of course breathed an enormous sigh of relief that it was just a drug trip because otherwise the internet might have imploded in bile, but I still didn't like it.
Although I liked Molly Hooper in disguise Rather A Lot.
So yes. Mycroft is beautiful, lovely, wonderful, and I love him lots. Of the rest of it we shall never speak again.
Today I and The Family went to a nearby town and to Primark and then around the shops. I paid so I am feeling suddenly very poor although I did get another Harry Potter themed t-shirt and a Harry Potter themed jumper. Just a shame that some of the t-shirs with HP quotes on were not nice enough for me to buy despite the quotes being good. And there was an Iron Man t-shirt which would've been awesome if it hadn't been semi-see through!
Got some new trainers for Deichmann's anyway, which has been a desperate need as my old ones let water in. As it hasn't stopped raining for what feels like the whole year, but is at least most of Autumn and all of Winter so far, shoes that let water in are a terrible, terrible thing. At least until my webbed feet and gills come in.
The mood soured towards the end because Nanny got tired but is stubborn so it took ages to cajole her to stop and have a hot chocolate, and then it was all petty stuff on the way home with everyone winding everyone else up. Oh and apparently I've got to cook sunday dinner tomorrow as well. I am not impressed. Also, I hate beef and I hate gravy. It never works.
Cheered myself up by playing with my new colouring book and starting to listen to the Big Finish Dorian Grey which still_lycoris has lent me. I'm liking it so far, although Oscar Wilde sounded rather cooler in the first episode than, according to Stephen Fry, he actually was. (I watched a programme about Stephen Fry the other night and he discussed starring in Wilde and getting to snog Michael Sheen and Jule Law etc phwoar. And he said whilst researching he met someone who had known Wilde and imitated his voice which was much more clipped-vowel-high-pitched than Fry played it because it would've been annoying.)
Added a few more fics to my tiny offerings for the 12 Days of Christmas challenge though, too. So that's good. Sadly, Mum was out then and she is now in and watching the telly so I don't know if I'll be able to get that focus back.
I really liked Wreck-It Ralph actually, though I missed the beginning. It was very cleverly done and quirky. Tangled had me in tears, as is the norm for most films these days. It's just that her parents look SO SAD and they've been missing their daughter for EIGHTEEN YEARS and it's all just heartbreaking.
Sherlock I... didn't really like. Which was disappointing. I didn't hate all of it. I absolutely adored every single tiny second Mycroft and Lestrade were onscreen. Particularly Mycroft, of course.
Initially, before we knew it was a drug-dream sequence (pfft) I was quite annoyed by the anachronisms, not just in the scenes but Sherlock's conversation with Mrs Hudson was very much so, and then the phrase "shotgun wedding" derailed me for a good few minutes whilst I pondered and then gave in and had to look it up to confirm that it is indeed anachronistic (1904, American) and OOC. THEN they had to go and mess up the Diogenes club, which would've been so good but Sign Language- no matter how useful it might be and how it provided space for a cheap lost-in-translation gag would NOT have been seen in what would be termed "polite society". This is still an era in which the "Deaf and Dumb" rich would be prisoners of their own household, and the poor would struggle to be treated as anything more than imbeciles. It's horrible but THAT'S HOW IT WAS. And the whole thing about the suffragists? Because of that I of course breathed an enormous sigh of relief that it was just a drug trip because otherwise the internet might have imploded in bile, but I still didn't like it.
Although I liked Molly Hooper in disguise Rather A Lot.
So yes. Mycroft is beautiful, lovely, wonderful, and I love him lots. Of the rest of it we shall never speak again.
Today I and The Family went to a nearby town and to Primark and then around the shops. I paid so I am feeling suddenly very poor although I did get another Harry Potter themed t-shirt and a Harry Potter themed jumper. Just a shame that some of the t-shirs with HP quotes on were not nice enough for me to buy despite the quotes being good. And there was an Iron Man t-shirt which would've been awesome if it hadn't been semi-see through!
Got some new trainers for Deichmann's anyway, which has been a desperate need as my old ones let water in. As it hasn't stopped raining for what feels like the whole year, but is at least most of Autumn and all of Winter so far, shoes that let water in are a terrible, terrible thing. At least until my webbed feet and gills come in.
The mood soured towards the end because Nanny got tired but is stubborn so it took ages to cajole her to stop and have a hot chocolate, and then it was all petty stuff on the way home with everyone winding everyone else up. Oh and apparently I've got to cook sunday dinner tomorrow as well. I am not impressed. Also, I hate beef and I hate gravy. It never works.
Cheered myself up by playing with my new colouring book and starting to listen to the Big Finish Dorian Grey which still_lycoris has lent me. I'm liking it so far, although Oscar Wilde sounded rather cooler in the first episode than, according to Stephen Fry, he actually was. (I watched a programme about Stephen Fry the other night and he discussed starring in Wilde and getting to snog Michael Sheen and Jule Law etc phwoar. And he said whilst researching he met someone who had known Wilde and imitated his voice which was much more clipped-vowel-high-pitched than Fry played it because it would've been annoying.)
Added a few more fics to my tiny offerings for the 12 Days of Christmas challenge though, too. So that's good. Sadly, Mum was out then and she is now in and watching the telly so I don't know if I'll be able to get that focus back.
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Date: 2016-01-02 07:32 pm (UTC)Molly Hooper in disguise WAS THE BEST. EVER.
Hurrah for Harry Potter themed clothes! Poorness is less good but I'm glad it was a fun shopping trip - sorry about the end though, that is rubbish.
YAY, glad you liked the first one! Let's say that this Oscar is dying and therefore his voice has gone all rough and stuff. Yep. :)
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Date: 2016-01-02 09:50 pm (UTC)