par·a·digm/ˈparəˌdīm/ (n)

Chapters currently alternating between Miller and Holden's POVs.

Flu shot plus five days left on this loan means this is going to get rushed.

( Artificial stillness and waiting )

Start/Previous part || Next part

Spoiler warnings for the book in question. A scattering of thoughts loosely ordered.

Would that I had not returned the book already, knowing that it seems to be popular right now as it is near impossible to reborrow it in a timely manner, I could go back and refer more closely.

( Read more... )

It’s hard to believe that Elementary has been airing for seven years, and that the adventures on the television screen are finally over. The show has certainly has its ups and downs, and certainly had a rocky reception at its inception, thanks in part to the slew of other Holmes-canon shows and media airing at the time, but overall it has been something I’ve always looked forward to, even when I’ve been too brain-fogged to really follow.

The show also holds the unique position of longest running show I’ve successfully followed from beginning to end, barring a couple of episodes in Season Five? (Fourth year undergrad was a bad time.)

Please know that this is cobbled together from written and typed notes, and there may be times when things aren’t exactly cohesive? And that a lengthy period of time has past, so what started as a liveblog — punctuation smashes, one worded exclamations and repetitive sentences and all — has certain had time to bubble into a review/reflection of the episode and the series itself.

Anyway, here it is: the last live blog reaction/review combo post for Elementary, ever. The rest is all rewatches, and maybe finally starting off in the ACD canon of the books, and Jeremy Brett’s brilliant portrayal.

I only started these in the show’s final season, but it has definitely made following along more fun – so here we go:

7x13 Their Last Bow

( Spoilers ahead )

Standard disclaimers apply: this is a second viewing, technically. With captions on, and actual coherent thought. Typos may appear, and spoilers 100% abound.




Oh, unfriended is right. So very, very right. This is a pun, and it is a pun to the maximum effect. I go back to rewatch and see the titles of those episodes and just want to hang my head and groan. (Because they're good puns, man. But seriously.)

I don't like this, I scream, and continue to scream for various reasons, some of them good, some of them bad. Some of them because I did a silly, silly thing. (No, I'm not using my Elementary icon, because I am yelling.)

But alas. We live with our choices.

I can, at least. Can you?



( Read more... )