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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2014 19:41:05 GMT
I find this statement quite disturbing because I cannot at all imagine what "the very last thing that I would expect" could possibly be.
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Post by questa on Jul 2, 2014 23:19:41 GMT
My second son has a PhD in philosophy and teaches it at college.
When he was about 3-4 years old we were out driving when I saw a house on a low-loader being driven towards us. I said, "What do you think would be the last thing you would expect to see coming down the road towards us?" As quick as a flash he replied, "Ourselves!".
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Post by lola on Jul 3, 2014 4:09:38 GMT
My second son has a PhD in philosophy and teaches it at college. When he was about 3-4 years old we were out driving when I saw a house on a low-loader being driven towards us. I said, "What do you think would be the last thing you would expect to see coming down the road towards us?" As quick as a flash he replied, "Ourselves!". Love it. |
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Post by questa on Jul 3, 2014 7:46:58 GMT
Lola...he was an interesting kid to raise, high IQ and thought patterns way ahead of us.
This what he is doing now...and I don't understand a word of it!
" He specialises in metaphysics (particularly philosophy of mind), epistemology, and critical thinking.
His thesis Conceivability arguments against physicalism, or, How to slay zombies and banish spectres examined the nature of phenomenal consciousness and argued for a realist yet physicalist answer to the mind- body problem. He is presently preparing a paper on modal epistemology"
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 3, 2014 20:50:26 GMT
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Post by lola on Jul 4, 2014 1:50:05 GMT
Questa, asking him that question indicates that you had a big influence in the lad's thinking. I bet he's fun around the dinner table, too.
I don't want Sherlock darker or deeper. Lighter and shallower, please, and just let young Benedict do his fetching thing.
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Post by questa on Jul 4, 2014 11:15:38 GMT
Lola, I always phrased our observations as questions...got some great answers and follow up questions.
Same son spent weeks trying to work out where a bird's knees were and did they point backwards?
Finally I got a complete chicken and we solved the question.
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Post by patricklondon on Jul 4, 2014 11:23:57 GMT
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Post by questa on Jul 4, 2014 12:51:48 GMT
Patrick...haven't heard that expression for years
I could never get a handle on his opus in the first place
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 23:38:38 GMT
Just a few more weeks to wait...
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 5, 2016 23:55:42 GMT
How many more weeks? I can't hold out much longer.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 4:55:31 GMT
I think it starts New Year's Day or some such on the BBC-UK.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 6, 2016 5:26:11 GMT
Yay!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 21:40:08 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2017 4:31:37 GMT
Yeah, kinda, although I'd say it was telegraphed to the viewer. I'm not over the moon about the series right now. To me it has an eyebrow-waggling, intramural elbow nudging that I think cheapens it and distances the viewer -- this viewer, anyway.
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Sherlock
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Post by whatagain on Jan 3, 2017 9:45:00 GMT
Some kids are bright !
But yes when they become adults they outdistance us.
I have never watched Sherlock more than 5 min. Yet I am a fan of Sherlock Holmes.
Don't know why.
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Post by breeze on Jan 3, 2017 14:12:03 GMT
The skeptic next to me kept snorting quietly throughout the first episode of series 4, which we saw last night. I wanted to wait till the end of the episode to find out why the snorts. Afterwards we agreed on some of his snorts. There are so many plot holes, and as bixa says, once the viewer is distanced the gaps become a source of chuckles rather than amazement.
We are both veteran mystery readers, so we know that there always have to be six Thatchers/whatevers (and under the influence of Edwardian Farm, I hoped for a moment that they would be six roof thatchers), because if the MacGuffin is found in the first Thatcher, there's no mystery.
And really, the MacGuffin was supposed to protect them?
Still, we're in for the rest of the series.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2017 14:59:09 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 9, 2017 7:25:53 GMT
Well, after tonight's episode I have to say that never has so much giant talent and superb acting been expended on so silly a show. There is some good suspense, but the sheer stupidity, the utter implausibly of the opening set-up had me disgruntled throughout the rest of episode. Then of course the hard-to-swallow beginning was bookended by the plot twist at the end. Humph.
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Post by tryeu on Feb 8, 2017 18:45:18 GMT
i want more sherlock. Why they made just 3 episodes? only 3. It seems to me I have sherlock mania
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2017 19:36:09 GMT
I understand the criticism about Sherlock having become too gimmicky/James Bondy in the last season, but I enjoyed it anyway. In the unlikely event that they manage to get the actors back for a new season, I hope that they will take the criticism into consideration.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2017 20:07:48 GMT
Well considering each episode is 1.5 hours, and costs millions and millions to make, plus the fact that the actors have other projects to do, it's suprising they got this past season done. So, please don't hold your breath...  I read an analysis of the symbols and clues that they left in the last episode, and the conclusion was that this is the end. |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 9, 2017 20:24:12 GMT
I enjoyed the early series but think that it ended up trying to be too slick and clever in the latter series. I admire the actors tremendously and the writers...but was very disappointed with the whole series. A chap on breakfast tv was talking about Doctor Who and said that the fans suffered from 'anticipointment' the anticipation being so great that the actual show could never quite live up to expectation...think the same holds for Sherlock.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2017 20:34:09 GMT
The big mistake they made in Sherlock was killing off Moriarty and then having him come back as a ridiculous video taunter.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 10, 2017 4:41:44 GMT
That was A mistake, not the big mistake. The big mistake was making it more and more whiz-bang and the plot so tricksy yet infuriatingly tedious.
I agree with Cheery about the actors, but not about the writers, who turned the whole thing into a sort of in-joke. Mark Gatiss was an excellent Mycroft, but writing in more and more Mycroft whether or not it made sense was egotistical and detrimental to the spirit of everything earlier in the series.
I feel betrayed.
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