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Sacré miette is on the wrong blog

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

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me drawing a comic: what is narrative

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I'm the kkg anon! Thank you OP! I love you and I love your art! Stunning as always

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Rare music thing but also I'm experiencing a Noel renaissance BECAUSE OF SOME PEOPLE. Highly rec Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, perpetual blorbo NG

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To the anon who asked for Jojo, thanks for sending me down a JJBA OP spiral

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I love your kakagai art! I kinda miss it already

op I have news for u

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🦇Some Vampire Daniel and werewolf Johnny 🌕

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these are all the same man

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dead curious about something

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ok idiot q: what is elementasquee

I'm on board but I'm also confused

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I don’t think I can emphasize enough just how much Elementary understood the core of Sherlock Holmes’ character, and the kind of cases and people he is drawn to, right from the very first episode.

The pilot opens with a wealthy woman’s murder. The prime suspect is a man who is a patient of the woman’s husband, a doctor, for help with his mental disorder. The man is desperately trying to avoid any triggers that may cause him to become violent, as he has been in the past. The doctor decides to use this man as a tool to kill his wife to collect her life insurance. He manipulates both his patient and his wife, alters the man’s medications, and ignores the man’s pleas for help, in order to set a scenario that is guaranteed to trigger the man’s violence - resulting in his wife’s death and later his patient’s.

When Sherlock pieces this together, he confronts the doctor, which leads to this:

And that’s what drives Sherlock to confront the doctor directly. There’s no smugness in being right, or for figuring out who the murderer was and how he did it. Sherlock realizes that this man’s patient was just another victim - someone who desperately wanted and sought help, only to be mistreated. Sherlock Holmes in this adaptation cares so deeply about people, especially those who are denied help when they need it most, and we learn all of this from the very first case.

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a pattern im noticing in these first three episodes of elementary is how it feels like sherlock's relationship with "irene" is being set up, or rather, how sherlock is the kind of person who would have been an easy mark for someone like moriarty in the first place:

in episode 1 he sympathises with the mentally ill man who was manipulated and violated by his therapist

in episode 2 he recognises that the one woman is too kind and needs to be more wary of her sister's intentions against her

in episode 3 he becomes fooled by a young man, because he projects victimhood onto him

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sherlock, to a victim: "my father packed me off to boarding school when i was just eight years old. i was a little bit of a know-it-all, well... massive know-it-all, actually. turned a lot of the other boys at the school against me. especially one by the name of anders larson. over the course of the next year anders took his anger out on me in a myriad cruel and terrible ways- nothing close to what you experienced, of course, but... it seemed worth mentioning, because, yousee... the more anders hurt me, the more i felt gratitude that he was actually paying attention to me. that in tormenting me he was attempting to correct what i knew to be wrong with myself. one day, after a particularly brutal lesson - it left me in a very bad way - a teacher asked me who was responsible. i said i'd fallen down the stairs. funny the things that we do for the people that we care about"

joan, later: "any of it true?"

sherlock: "I went to boarding school"

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rewatching elementary now with the knowledge Jonny Lee Miller had started with his own sobriety and recovery whilst filming is honestly transcendent. He is so GOOD. he is gut-wrenching. The scene where Sherlock explains his sobriety feels like a leaking faucet that requires constant maintenance and offers only not to drip in return - jlm does this thing with his voice where he's on the verge of tears but bored all at once. He's wrecked by a feeling he's utterly sick to death of having. It's such a compassionate performance. On another level it is truly crazy to me that we have so many Sherlock Holmes adaptations so eager to make Sherlock an addict, but Elementary is far and away the only adaptation that does that and takes the addiction seriously. Perhaps in part because of JLM's real life recovery, but we'll never know. On a rewatch, it's a lot :')

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Jonny Lee Miller's true skill lies in how pathetically hopeful he looks as he waits to be kissed

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After meeting in prison, two strangers from different echelons of English society decide to join forces and become highwaymen.

Plunkett & Macleane (1999)