How many ‘Y’s’ can I squeeze into the title of this post? Just testing.
In other news, Happy New Year, everybody!! Hope you all had a lovely holiday and I hope 2014 is off to an awesome start for you!
I know I’ve been away for quite some time now, my last real post was November 10th! I was mostly doing NaNoWriMo (quite successfully, I might add, 70+k words!), but my story took me a couple weeks of December to finish. I had planned to pick up posting again in December, but by that time, most everything had gone on break (some for quite extensive breaks–OUAT in Wonderland isn’t back until MARCH!), so I decided to take some time off.
Just FYI, I mentioned before (probably a few times by now) that I’m going to be moving the blog off Blogger over to self-hosted WordPress. I’d like to say I’m halfway through the process, but I think that’s me being overly optimistic. I’ve got a design, a theme picked out, and I have a general idea of how I want to lay out the navigation (I believe/hope it will be much easier to find stuff than on here!), but actually transferring all the posts from here to the new site is going to be a job.
Fingers crossed, I’d like to launch the new blog in early February, but I’ve taken on two book challenges and I’d like to participate in the local library book club more this year, so that is most assuredly going to cut into my blogging time. Still, again, it’s a new year, and I want to believe I can do anything, so I am going to go right ahead and believe I can get the new blog up in early February. So there. 😛
Elementary
Right, back to why we’re really here! I have to admit, I got a bit of a chill seeing Moriarty again. Not because she is particularly terrifying, but because I know how she affects Sherlock, and I’m quite fond of our dear Mr. Holmes and don’t wish him any harm, psychological or otherwise. And Moriarty is most definitely the very definition of psychological harm in Holmes’s case.
The ep began with a little girl being kidnapped from a wealthy and highly secure home in the city. Holmes and Watson hear the initial conversation between the kidnappers and the mother, and of course, Capt. Gregson and the other members of the NYPD who were present at the scene, and quelle surprise, the voice on the line is the man who pretended to be Moriarty just before Holmes learned of “Irene Adler’s” true identity.
And, surprise again, Holmes and Watson get to meet Moriarty in a somewhat highly secured, but rather loosely guarded “prison” in Brooklyn in the old Navy yards. Watson has become quite the mother hen to Holmes when it comes to Moriarty, and I don’t blame her a bit for it. That woman is trouble under any circumstances.
Holmes is extremely distrustful of his former flame, and is convinced she is behind the kidnapping, only pretending to want to help find the girl so she can earn more privileges and bargaining chips to escape her confines.
As the investigation continues, it seems Moriarty is behind the kidnapping, etching a code or method within her sketches of the kidnappers to hand out among the NYPD. Holmes becomes even more convinced of her involvement at this point, but it isn’t until he works out that the little girl is Moriarty’s own child, given up a few years back to another home and family, that Holmes realizes why Moriarty is so desperate to be involved in the case.
Holmes wasn’t entirely off the mark, though. Moriarty was planning her escape, and she manages it in order to rescue the little girl and kill the kidnappers. Holmes finds her, in need of a hospital, sitting among the bodies she’s just killed, and realizes that though she may be an unrepentant killer and a criminal genius, she is changing. She let the man at the “prison” escape with his life, though she overpowered him to make her own escape, because–she claims–she is learning to care what people think of her, specifically, what Holmes thinks of her.
Anybody recognize the man keeping watch over Ms. Moriarty this week? Anyone? I believe if you think back to 2008, and recall the actors in a little film called Iron Man, you ought to be able to place him. His name is Faran Tahir, and he played Raza, the evil kidnapper who held Tony Stark prisoner on Obadiah’s orders and got part of his face burned off in the process. He certainly made an impression.
And, in case you hadn’t placed her, either, the woman playing Moriarty has also had a role in the Marvel Universe, albeit with less screentime. That’s right, Natalie Dormer played the pretty blond who thanked our dear Captain (see 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger) with a kiss for his bravery and recent rescue mission, supremely pissing off Peggy Carter as she walks in and catches them in the act.
As the Marvel Universe grows larger, our little world grows smaller as we recognize more and more familiar faces across our favorite shows and films.
Up Next:
I believe the Michael J. Fox Show and Parenthood had new episodes this first Thursday of 2014 as well, so recaps from those will follow over the weekend, probably, and Dracula is already back with a new episode Friday night.
Next week, we’ve got a truckload of awesomesauce coming our way! A new season of Justified returns, as does Psych!, along with some of the shows we’ve been keeping up with this fall like AHS: Coven and Agents of SHIELD. More on what’s up next week soon 🙂
Also, in my absence, I’ve become hooked on Fox’s new series, Almost Human. Another futuristic sci-fi show, and, yes, another cop show, it’s actually pretty good. The tech is incredible and Urban and Ealy have a great chemistry. God, I love seeing Bones on TV every week! By Bones, I mean the Star Trek Bones, not the Fox series with Emily Deschanel, and by the Star Trek Bones, I mean the new films with Karl Urban. He’s dreamy 🙂 He’s sort of a dick on Almost Human, but in a totally lovable way.
And Michael Ealy, whom I recognize both from a brief stint on Californication and a short-lived series on USA called Common Law is also terrific as a very humanized robot called Dorian. It’s also super-fun to see Minka Kelly again. She has had some tough breaks in the TV market, short-lived role on Parenthood, short-lived starring role on a Charlie’s Angels reboot. But she’s adorable. And she’s lovely as Det. Valerie Stahl on Almost Human. In any case, this one is on the roster now on Mondays, though it unfortunately interferes with HIMYM and 2 Broke Girls. I’m hoping when the Following returns, it’ll get a time slot bump that will work better with my schedule.
PS: Just a random note, I’ve recently become a Doctor Who fan. I don’t think I’ve quite got the episodes under my belt to call myself a “whovian” just yet (I’m just partway through S2), but I’m getting there. This sort of time travel, science fiction storyline is right up my alley 🙂
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