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.

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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.

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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

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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?



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Thursday was great. I stayed up too late watching it but it's okay! I lived another day.

In which true crime buffing takes on multiple levels of relevance. Or, you know, paying attention to real life news and current events?



I’d recognized the actress’s face from the preview stills, but for the life of me couldn’t place her name. Or what was it that she did. Only that she was an antagonist. I needed that review.

The opening case, I knew the specific crime it was cribbing from (though again, the details escaped me), but credit to stardust-rain (tumblr) for digging up an article about the case in question It’s a wild read.

And hey, cases from overseas – glad to see they’re going ahead with the let’s work in two continents thing


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Ending notes: Are we tying up past ends? Are we going to see the kid from Rat Race too? (1x02, I think) Detective Gina? Alfredo? Randy?

This is the show’s final season, I wonder how many links to episodes/seasons past they’ll try to fit in?


Also we’ve also sort of almost hit 150 eps of Elementary already? I think 7x09 or 7x10 is the one what will hit the mark so ahhhhhh?

Before I start anything – I have to ask – is that a Sondhiem reference? Is it? Is it?

Also the promo pics featured fancy dress on so many people. NICE ♥

This, like 7x03 is a REAL liveblog.




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Sondheim? The answer is No. A big fat no. /huffs

This one is shorter than it could have been. Kind of rushed, given how late in the week it is, it's just two sleeps until Thursday!





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Until next time.

Disclaimer: I sort of know what’s going on with RE 1, given what’s been memed or seeped into pop culture. Typos will abound, and I likely won’t fix them. I don’t know if I’ll do the ‘ask questions about future events mere moments before they happen’ bit again, but it may.

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The pacing of this game is rather off, to me. It feels like more happens in these last 30ish minutes of gameplay than the rest of the entire game altogether.

Of course, I'm biased, I've always had a preference towards story/lore. Give me pages of random history, an epic poem? A song, even? And I'll sit through it and read every word. Which weren't things that were missing here, though in much briefer form. That whole exchange between John and Ada. Or well, John to Ada... breaks your heart, doesn't it?

Mostly, the back and forth, and how enemies don't actually stay down is frustrating to see. It's not my kind of game.

Anyways, the biggest takeaway is that Umbrella is 1) basically big pharma, if big pharma decided to branch out into more lethal action, where licensing for level 3 and 4 pathogens isn't a thing, they have money to burn, and gosh, who wants to do proper science when you can have mad scientists.

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Now how's that for a episode title! I thought it was a new show tagline at first, but looking around shows that it is indeed the name of the episode.

I was stoked for the season starting and did catch the episode as it aired. I quickly just kept watching rather than continuing to tweet about things happening.

This is actually from my second viewing of the episode, having watched the available stream from the local television channel. I love closed captioning.

So spoilers will be below.

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All in all, I want to see how they get around the Sherlock's banishment from the states since there's stuff going down in NYC that he probably also wants to be there for. Joan may be able to act as a go between, but that difference in being there, and actually, PHYSICALLY being there once again rears its head.

I don't know if the cast and crew are pulling out all the stops for this final final season, though I hope so. Except not in ways that make it seem over the top. That would be too much.

The case while central in holding the plot together, isn't as important as all the conversations we get in between, and that has pretty much always been the way this show works. I like those conversations, I would love to see more of them, the emotional arcs is what they show is best at, and it can always do more to play to its strengths.

I love the return of Ophelia Lovibond as Kitty, I would definitely love to see more of Archie, if that was included in the cards, and subsequently, Kitty. Though who else might may a reappearance? I have no clue.


So... is it Thursday yet?