The blue, blue water, the bone-white sky

[sovay]

I have been re-reading my ancestral (i.e., my mother's hardcover) copy of The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes (1978), which made it a very nice thing at the end of a semi-rough day when this episode mysteriously fell off the back of a hansom. I have loved Jeremy Brett and David Burke since childhood, but having recently been discussing various unsatisfactory versions of Irene Adler with skygiants and genarti, I was refreshingly impressed by the immediate intelligence—and faithfully portrayed opera!—of Gayle Hunnicutt. The predictable result is that now I want to rewatch both the Granada Sherlock Holmes (1984–94) and The Legend of Hell House (1973). Have a couple of links.

1. Courtesy of spatch: sunbathing mermaids, with duck.

2. Courtesy of moon_custafer: mildly Talmudic Batman meta.

3. Courtesy of handful_ofdust: "my mom's childhood town."

I have not attended High Holidays services in years, but I really don't appreciate dreaming that I was told by a synagogue that I couldn't enter because I'd once been sick. That is not how either science or Judaism works. It is, however, a fascinatingly obvious anxiety dream.

Comments

[cmcmck]

You can't beat a good re-read of Holmes!

[sovay]

You can't beat a good re-read of Holmes!

It is definitely not doing me any harm.

[the_future_modernes]

That mermaid art was so lovely! Thank you for sharing!

[sovay]

That mermaid art was so lovely! Thank you for sharing!

You're welcome!

[selkie]

On the bright side, none of us will be going into a synagogue this year for the High Holy Days! None! Do start dreaming of where you buried that North American Viking hoard, won’t you?

[sovay]

On the bright side, none of us will be going into a synagogue this year for the High Holy Days! None!

I know! You said so on Friday! It's one of the reasons I don't appreciate the dream!

Do start dreaming of where you buried that North American Viking hoard, won’t you?

I might have to go to Maine.

[asakiyume]

I love that the book the one mermaid is reading looks like it's been dropped in water, and I love the extraordinarily ordinary/unprepossessing place they've picked to sunbathe.

Maybe now I'll watch A Scandal in Bohemia :-)

[sovay]

I love that the book the one mermaid is reading looks like it's been dropped in water, and I love the extraordinarily ordinary/unprepossessing place they've picked to sunbathe.

Yes! It's a very casual mermaid scene.

Maybe now I'll watch A Scandal in Bohemia :-)

Enjoy!

[gwynnega]

I watched the Holmes episode, and you're right, what a great portrayal of Irene Adler! (I really can't think of another film/TV version of her I did like.) Also, Brett completely nailed Holmes's disguises.

After the episode finished, YouTube immediately started to play Sherlock Holmes in Washington, and I was helpless to resist.

[sovay]

I watched the Holmes episode, and you're right, what a great portrayal of Irene Adler! (I really can't think of another film/TV version of her I did like.)

We couldn't, either, which was how the conversation got started! genarti has pointed out that it is ridiculous that Arthur Conan Doyle writing in 1891 somehow managed to be more feminist about Irene Adler than any of his adapter-successors, but here we are.

Also, Brett completely nailed Holmes's disguises.

Yes! I was especially impressed by the out-of-work groom, although I loved the dear old clergyman with his spirit-gum wrinkles hastily fending off being compassionately washed of his fake blood.

After the episode finished, YouTube immediately started to play Sherlock Holmes in Washington, and I was helpless to resist.

It does sound like an irresistible title.

[gwynnega]

All the Basil Rathbone Holmes films are irresistible to me, even though the plots of most of them run together in my mind.

[sovay]

All the Basil Rathbone Holmes films are irresistible to me, even though the plots of most of them run together in my mind.

I respect that. I am as we speak trying to source a copy of The Legend of Hell House off the internet so I can watch Roddy McDowall scream at a ghost.

[alexxkay]

Did you find it? If not, I can help.

[sovay]

Did you find it? If not, I can help.

It was a wash. You're amazing.

[edit] Your largesse yielded a review.

[alexxkay]

I saw, and felt a small rush of pride :-)