Monday, with Fannish Stuff

[nightdog_barks]

Partly cloudy and cooler, with that hazy autumn sunlight. 68 degrees (20 degrees Celsius) and a breeze out of the north.



I did enjoy it, but it reminded me very much of a Sax Rohmer novel -- I almost expected our Steely-Eyed Heroes to assume a Manly Pose and spit out some lines like "You devilish Chinee heathen!" or "By God, your fiendish plans will never succeed!" But. From what I understand, this was considered something of a weaker episode, and next week's is supposed to be awesome.

Apparently there was a live net-interview with Benedict Cumberbatch this morning -- the transcript of that chat is here.



Not much else at the moment, but here's an awesome time-lapse video of the American Southwest from the astronomy photographer Tom Lowe (via Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy). This is really gorgeous.

TimeScapes: Rapture from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

Comments

[pwcorgigirl]

I kept waiting last night for mention of the Tong Wars and for Sherlock to be found in an opium den. :D But I loved it when John saved both Sarah and Sherlock from being shot.

That video is just amazing, particularly the sections with the belt of stars passing over the bare tree. You see something like that and think it is how the world looked when it was new -- so beautiful.

I've been out doing errands, and bought a cane, which is not black or House-like cool but because it feels better walking with one now that I'm off the crutches.

[felis]

Ohhh, I sometimes like to be reminded that we are on a planet which is moving all the time and that we are at the edge of this huge galaxy and there is this whole wide universe out there and probably half the stars we see have already gone out and ... Well, awesome. :-)
Also, that is one spectacular lenticularis cloud there. Beautiful.

Re: Sherlock. I'm afraid I already told you last week that I wasn't all that impressed after the first episode. But. Cutting one of the best scenes of the second episode takes a special kind of genius, PBS. Just saying.

[taiga13]

That video was beautiful!
I watched Sherlock for the first time last night. I really liked the interpretations of Holmes and Watson, but also raised an eyebrow at the evil Chinese henchlady threatening Sara with a circus crossbow thingy. (I'm afraid that the actor who played Watson also did not convince me that he believed he was about to die - yes he was a soldier, but he didn't look stoic. He looked annoyed.) Armchair Elvis kindly gave me links to watch the previous episodes and I'm looking forward to doing that.