The Blood is The Life 29-12-2012

[miss_s_b]

• Dear BBC Website.
  On the awesomeness of Delia Derbyshire
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• Here's How Facebook Gives You Up To The Police
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• Paying Workers Living Wage Would Save Government £2bn A Year, Study Finds
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• Hackers of Steubenville Football Team’s Web Site Demand Apology in Rape Case - NYTimes.com
  Holy Cthulhu this is all kinds of horrible..
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• On Being Female
  A Vimes/Carrot two handed Discworld fic that gets the voice and tone EXACTLY right.
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• The Hobbit - Production Diaries 3 - YouTube
  One word: "DADDY!!"
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• teenage gimli by *Xeora on deviantART
  Linking to Teenage Gimli again because it's just so awesome.
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• Elementary gifs
  This is why (AWOOGA AWOOGA CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ALERT!) Elementary beats Sherlock
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Comments

[lizw]

A stray thought sidled in, and, despite its ill-advised nature, refused to be ejected until it had been asked.

Great stuff. Yes, exactly the right tone.

[doccy]

...yes I am loving Elementary, even if I sometimes have problems getting past the first bit of spelling it ;)

[miss_s_b]

Glad it's not just me :)

[innerbrat]

I don't understand.

[innerbrat]

Elementary being better than Sherlock is not a controversial opinion in my neck of the internet :)

[gwenhwyfaer]

I wish I could comment on the relative awesomenesses of Elementary & Sherlock, but it doesn't look like I'll get to see the former until some spare cash comes along with "Elementary DVD box set" written down the middle of it. :( Oh well...

But as far as the new Who theme arrangements go, one of the most annoying things about the new series is that they don't stay true to the spirit of Delia Derbyshire's arrangement. Hers was beautifully minimal; the new themes have all been "chuck a full orchestra and a kitchen sink at it and hope that the resulting pomp gets people to forget that the theme tune used to be something that kept people awake in the small hours".

A bit like the show itself, come to think of it...

[miss_s_b]

The relationship between Sherlock and Joan, and the performances of the two leads, are stunning in Elementary. I really love it. And I think part of the reason they have created something so good is Moffat bagsie-ing all the actual Sherlock Holmes stuff so they had to think of something else.