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damkiannaMade myself a quick icon of Katara as the Avatar from the ItO story art; much as I love my default, "space cowgirl" isn't quite the right sentiment for those posts. Morgana is beauteous, but I need to obtain Photoshop for her somehow, even if I have to buy it this time - much as Paint has improved since the last time I was forced to use it, um, NO. D:
I finally managed to work out the giant plot block that's been stalling out Chapter Eight; I always forget how satisfying it feels to unravel those brain knots and start churning out words again. \o/
My parents and I all went over to my sister's apartment to watch the first episode of Sherlock, since it was showing on PBS; my mother ran across a review in the paper a little while ago, asked me whether I had heard of it, and was adorably surprised that I had. She still doesn't quite understand how I get information through fandom.
Anyway, Sherlock. I liked it reasonably well; they certainly do make it easy to ship Sherlock and John. I thought they were going to spend more time on Donovan than they did, and I am given to understand through spoilers that it's ... not going to get better there, which is wretched. But I liked that the victim kind of solved her own murder - all Sherlock's logic, and yet he didn't even consider the cabbie, and it was a fifty-fifty shot that he would have died if the phone she planted hadn't led John to them.
Honestly, the cabbie thing threw me for a bit of a loop. My sister's TV screen is really small, and so I didn't realize that the cab had both a driver and a passenger in it, and I thought they were stopping it to get the driver, until I figured out that they weren't; so that made the resolution kind of a backtrack for me. I was also surprised that it took so long for Sherlock to think of the cab, near the end - if the phone wasn't in 221B before, and none of the police brought it in, and there's a cab pulled up outside ... well, gee, where could it possibly be? **hands**
Overall, I feel decent about it, though god knows whether it'll stay that way.
And now, my should-be-lunch-time is over, so I should get back to work.
I finally managed to work out the giant plot block that's been stalling out Chapter Eight; I always forget how satisfying it feels to unravel those brain knots and start churning out words again. \o/
My parents and I all went over to my sister's apartment to watch the first episode of Sherlock, since it was showing on PBS; my mother ran across a review in the paper a little while ago, asked me whether I had heard of it, and was adorably surprised that I had. She still doesn't quite understand how I get information through fandom.
Anyway, Sherlock. I liked it reasonably well; they certainly do make it easy to ship Sherlock and John. I thought they were going to spend more time on Donovan than they did, and I am given to understand through spoilers that it's ... not going to get better there, which is wretched. But I liked that the victim kind of solved her own murder - all Sherlock's logic, and yet he didn't even consider the cabbie, and it was a fifty-fifty shot that he would have died if the phone she planted hadn't led John to them.
Honestly, the cabbie thing threw me for a bit of a loop. My sister's TV screen is really small, and so I didn't realize that the cab had both a driver and a passenger in it, and I thought they were stopping it to get the driver, until I figured out that they weren't; so that made the resolution kind of a backtrack for me. I was also surprised that it took so long for Sherlock to think of the cab, near the end - if the phone wasn't in 221B before, and none of the police brought it in, and there's a cab pulled up outside ... well, gee, where could it possibly be? **hands**
Overall, I feel decent about it, though god knows whether it'll stay that way.
And now, my should-be-lunch-time is over, so I should get back to work.
