Threshold Day and more

[donutsweeper]

It's Threshold Day, the 29th anniversary of the airing of the episode. I managed to recreate the pattern for the Threshold lizards and posted it to both AO3 and Ravelry so anyone who wants to make one of these little guys can give it a shot. (On a whim I also threw a link to ravelry with a picture of two of them into a tumblr post and holy *crap* the engagement it's gotten there, I had no idea how popular the Threshold Day tag would be!)



It's also the Lunar New Year, and now it's the year of the snake! 春节快乐! Happy New Year!

The pilot for "Watson" has been released on youtube (in the US anyway, I'm not sure if it's international). It had been being touted as a medical drama with Sherlockian detective elements and stars Morris Chestnut, an actor I like, so I'd been looking forward to it as I'm always interested in a new, good Holmes adaption. I was a little hesitant due to Moriarty also being mentioned in all the promo stuff and... sigh. The pilot was a decent House, M.D. reboot with a few trappings of Holmesian lore and whatnot sprinkled in and I'm sure there are plenty of people who will find that interesting, but I don't think it's for me. (I can certainly go into detail on why I think that if anyone's curious in the comments).

Comments

[profiterole_reads]

Happy Lunar New Year!

[donutsweeper]

春节快乐! *sends a virtual red envelope your way*

[profiterole_reads]

Thanks! :D

[aurumcalendula]

Happy Lunar New Year (and Threshold Day)!

I'm be interested in hearing more about the Watson pilot (it looked potentially intersting, but I'm not into medical dramas so I haven't watched it).

[donutsweeper]

Okay, so (mostly only) vague spoilers ahead other than for the opening scene:

It opens with Reichenbach Falls and Watson is in the woods and hears gunshots and runs and sees two people fighting on the edge of the falls (Holmes and Moriarty but they're only shapes) and the gun firing into the sky as they grapple for it and then they both fall into the water and Watson dives after and goes over the falls and is seen floating face down with blood coming from his head and then wakes in the hospital with his head bandaged. -- this bit I already had a few issues with - in the book, Holmes was *very* careful to make sure Watson was nowhere near the fight when it happened, he wanted to protect Watson. Watson getting hurt trying to save him? Wouldn't happen.

That aside, the very next thing that happened was Shinwell Johnson (a bookcanon minor character- a former criminal who sometimes worked for/with Holmes) was there and telling Watson how Holmes had provided for both of them in his will - he set up the clinic that the whole show is based around and set up a salary for Johnson to stay at Watson's side and help him. This was just... what? The clinic was in Watson's hometown (Pittsburg) and completely set up already and off and running perfectly in the very next scene set 6 months later. None of that makes sense. If Holmes had left the money to set up the clinic, sure, but to have set up the clinic itself? The recovery period for Watson aside, medical clinics need so much work to set up and get off the ground. It's never questioned why Holmes would do that or how or anything.

The people involved in the clinic were all the type I expected to see in something trying to show how diverse it is (purposefully not just white straight men but yet still all late 20s and conventionally attractive) but the medical stuff really felt ripped from a House, MD plot - they ignore medical/legal (that would/should get them in trouble in the real world) stuff to get to the bottom of the medical issue and of course, solve it.

Then, as a *gotcha* type of thing, the last scene has Moriarty (which had been in promos and is mentioned in most of the show's write ups so isn't the shock it seemed to think it is) who apparently will be a shadowy adversary, going against Watson without Watson every knowing and, according to the 'coming soon' scenes (slightly spoilery bit here, I guess) Shinwell Johnson will be working for Moriarty to the point of changing out Watson's medicines with some unknown substance. Every single aspect of that is something I do not have interest in at all.

The show seems like it'll be 90% case of the week ever episode with the other 10% greater plot arc Moriarty (and/or Holmes maybe?) stuff. So, if you aren't interested in medical dramas it probably won't be something you're interested in.

[trobadora]

Awww, those are so cute! :D

蛇年快乐！

(Speaking of lizards and snakes, I recently learned that one of the Chinese words for "lizard" is 四脚蛇, "four-legged snake".)

Moriarty also being mentioned in all the promo stuff

Ooh! I may have to look that up.

[donutsweeper]

四脚蛇 is a great name for them, it describes lizards perfectly!

[adafrog]

Cute critters.

[donutsweeper]

Thank you! :)