I'm currently watching the wedding episode of Sherlock. That part of the speech, where he's babbling on to mask that he's trying to work out who's going to get murdered - he sounded and acted exactly like the Eleventh Doctor.
Willow: Yes. Hi. You must be Angel's handsome, yet androgynous, son. Connor: It's Connor. Willow: And the sneer's genetic. Who knew?
'A Hole in the World'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
billytea - Feb 13, 2014 2:15:33 am PST #10463 of 11831
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
P.M. Marc - Feb 13, 2014 8:19:18 am PST #10464 of 11831
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
You think? I think Eleven is far kinder in his babbles when he's trying to figure something out. Rapid-fire, but less... Sherlock.
P.M. Marc - Feb 13, 2014 8:19:41 am PST #10465 of 11831
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
(I've been mainlining Eleven again. It happens.)
billytea - Feb 13, 2014 10:04:03 am PST #10466 of 11831
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
You think? I think Eleven is far kinder in his babbles when he's trying to figure something out. Rapid-fire, but less... Sherlock.
Absolutely. Sherlock wasn't being unkind in that portion of the speech either. And the rapid-fire delivery, flappy hands, finishing sentences in places far removed from their original destination, all quintessential Eleven.
billytea - Feb 13, 2014 12:55:59 pm PST #10467 of 11831
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
What I find interesting about it is not that Sherlock suddenly channeled Eleven. They're written by the same person, after all. What I found interesting was why Sherlock was doing so. Per his orders from Head!Mycroft (there's no doubt a thesis or two to be penned about Sherlock picturing and accepting Mycroft in that role), he was doing so to keep control of the room. (Not his usual intent. He can normally act as though that's a given.) The way to do that, apparently, is flappy hands and babbling. Which of course is why Eleven does it too.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 13, 2014 7:15:25 pm PST #10468 of 11831
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I really need to catch up on (as in see any of) Elementary, because the Who=Holmes has been a thing with me with Sherlock since I started watching. And I suspect it's on some level it was a thing that influnced Doctor Who from the get go; it's just now a little more explicit.
-t - Feb 20, 2014 4:54:44 pm PST #10469 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Aw, Audrey Horn all grown up and running a brothel on CSI. I am not sure how I feel about that.
P.M. Marc - Feb 21, 2014 6:30:56 am PST #10470 of 11831
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
And I suspect it's on some level it was a thing that influnced Doctor Who from the get go; it's just now a little more explicit.
The Master, as I recall, was specifically Moriarty-influenced at creation.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 21, 2014 10:28:51 am PST #10471 of 11831
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The Master, as I recall, was specifically Moriarty-influenced at creation.
And the batshit crazy version of Moriarity in Sherlock is pretty close to the last incarnation of The Master.
DCJensen - Feb 26, 2014 1:25:44 pm PST #10472 of 11831
All is well that ends in pizza.
Person of interest:
I had some logical and technological problems with this week's story.
- You don't turn "off" a back up generator when it's not in use. It's not on. Throwing that switch disabled it. I'll give them a pass, but really?
- If you tape together two smartphones, you are going to introduce ambient noise at each set. This means that the evil genius Bad Guy would not have been that clear, and that he would have been able to hear Shaw BOTH times she found a pair of phones.
- The phones seemed to be taped together facing each other upright, wouldn't they be flipped mic to speaker?
- It's possible they could have a special headset cable between each pair, but that wasn't evident on first watch.
- The Bad Guy is lucky his target was the one who answered the call from the right boy.
- The Bad Guy has the resources to bug and put a camera in her headset and yet can't deal with everything else?
- Bad Guy is lucky the headset they use in the office is compatible with her cell phone.
- Bad Guy is also on record for his latest call, was she to delete that, too?
- Speaking of which, there are no backups for 911 calls? I find that hard to believe.
- Why didn't Harold just back up the calls, if they didn't have a backup?
- Once Harold had a copy of calls to send to Fusco at Incredible speed, why not back it up that way, too?
- If Bad Guy has the ability to sneak someone in to replace her headset, couldn't someone sneak in to plant a bomb and just blow up the server room?
- Why would a power outage necessitate an immediate evacuation?
- Why did Harold pull out the battery and dispose of it in the garbage after getting the call from Bad Guy? Now if he wants to activate the phone to trace the guy, he has to scrounge another battery. Why not just remove it and pocket the works?
- If a three year old child is left in a tub for a minute to run downstairs, and that child was underwater and motionless when you came back up, something else happened. Or someone. If it was a simple drowning, 15 seconds of her freezing before CPR would not keep the child from surviving.
I'm usually not this picky, but...