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I think I avoided spoilers in this one.

Sherlock's faces are the best--I especially love her grin, not to mention the way she moves.

Sherlock's relationship with her brother is a delight every time he is onscreen. They constantly pick on each other but it's in an obviously loving way.

This show is so goddamn shippy. Nothing subtle about it by the last episode.

Mrs. Hatano is the best.

The night I finished watching this show I was an hour late getting to bed because I started looking at fic on AO3. I want it all!

Raimon and Shibata are great. Raimon is constantly amused by Sherlock and I like watching how Shibata and Sherlock react to each other. I want to know how the hell she met them. Did Kento basically send over because she needed something to do and he thought they could use the help? Did she just turn up at a crime scene one day and start sticking her nose (and hands) into everybody’s business? How long has this been going on? Does the police force have a drinking game for cases that Sherlock's involved with?

I was thinking about the NBC Hannibal series some more and that episode in Season 2 when he's choosing his dinner ingredients from the rolodex of the rude, and realized that what I want is a fic about one of Hannibal's victims-to-be unintentionally evading every attempt to kill them through sheer dumb luck. Look, that person may have intentionally given Hannibal decaf instead of regular coffee because they were in a bad mood that day (pretending for the sake of argument that Hannibal would actually go to a Starbucks), but that doesn't mean the person deserves to end up in Alanna's beer.

Let's say this person is Jenny the underpaid barista. Hannibal sabotages her car? Jenny decided to hitchhike and gets a ride before Hannibal can catch her. Hannibal breaks into her home and waits for the time he knows she gets home from the gym every night? Jenny unexpectedly has to fly to the other side of the country due to a family emergency. Hannibal waits outside the secluded side door at the gym that she always uses? Jenny canceled her membership that morning because she needs to save money to pay off her student loans.

By this time, it's the day of Hannibal's dinner party and Jenny (at least temporarily) escapes being on the menu.

1. Guillermo del Toro is directing an episode for Season 3 of Hannibal! Does this mean that the Pale Man can kill Hannibal? That would be awesome, even though I'd never be able to sleep again.

2. Speaking of del Toro, you could have knocked me over with a feather when I found out that his upcoming horror film Crimson Peak is set in Buffalo, NY.

3. I have started seeing flowers when I go walking outside and it's wonderful.

4. I couldn't stand the Taylor Swift song "Blank Space" until somebody on FFA recently said that they want a Will/Hannibal fanvid set to that song, and now I laugh whenever it comes on the radio because I can't stop mentally matching up clips from the show to go with the lyrics.

5. I'm signed up for the Conlan Press/Peter S. Beagle newsletters and there's going to be a new edition for The Last Unicorn DVD released this June and among the extras will be an audio commentary track and a documentary OH MY GOD GIVE IT TO ME NOW. The most recent newsletter also includes a link to a vid of somebody doing a cover of the title song and it's lovely.

Today I started things out by repeatedly yelling "Screw you!" at the television while eating breakfast.

I'm watching Season 1 of Hannibal for the first time (I've already seen Season 2) and I'm currently on the brain scan episode. Of course, I yell at many of the characters during the rest of the season but this episode has increased the frequency.

I read Bacchae by Euripides because of Hannibal. No, really. I lurk on Tumblr a bit and stumbled across this great analysis of similarities between Season 1 of Hannibal and the play. It’s a wonderfully screwed-up play, like the rest of Greek tragedy, and everybody should read it even if you don’t care about Hannibal.

(Also: for the most part I don’t care about award shows, but Hannibal didn’t get one single Emmy nomination? Not even for cinematography? Are you kidding me?)

I haven’t read large amounts of Ancient Greek dramas, but I think Euripides is my favorite playwright out of all the ones I’ve experienced so far. I was already familiar with Medea, but the anthology I borrowed for Bacchae also included Trojan Women.

EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THIS PLAY IS AWFUL AND I LOVE IT.

It takes place after Troy has been captured by the Greeks and the women of Troy are being taken away as slaves. Poor Hecuba, the queen of Troy, has seen all of her family members either killed or enslaved, and even she is being sent away as a slave to Odysseus’s wife, Penelope.

As much as I feel sorry for everybody in this play, Cassandra is my favorite character. Rather than just being a passive victim who’s been driven mad by her curse, she’s more or less accepted her fate as a slave to Agamemnon (and later to be killed by Clytemnestra), and is determined to FUCK THEIR SHIT UP. (She’s still unstable, but not without a mission.) She says to Hecuba,

“Mother, crown me with a victory wreath, and celebrate my marriage to a king! Take me to him and, if I hesitate, force me. For if Apollo told the truth, my marriage to Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks, will be more painful to him than Helen’s. I shall kill Agamemnon and destroy his home; he will pay in blood for what he did to my brothers and father. I won’t talk about the rest: I won’t sing about the axe at my throat, or the murder of the others, or the agony of matricide that my murder will set in motion, besides the overthrow of the house of Atreus.”

She then goes on to talk about how their people are more fortunate than the Greeks, because the Trojans have the glory of defending their home and being with their loved ones when they die. I think this quote sums it up best:

“They [the Greeks] sent thousands to their deaths for the sake of one woman, and one love affair, when they chased after Helen. Look at this clever general, who destroyed what he loved most, for what was most hated; he gave up the pleasures of his children at home for the sake of his brother’s wife who left home willingly; she was not raped.”

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” is a totally inappropriate analogy but it’s what popped into my head nonetheless.

I would have to say that the saddest part is that Andromache’s young son is taken from her and killed by the Greeks during the play—he’s not already dead when it begins. He dies because the Greeks are scared that the continued existence of Hector’s son could give the Trojans hope.

Thanks for ripping out my heart, Euripides. It’s not like I needed it or anything.

The good news: I was able to borrow the entire first season of Sabrina: The Teenage Witch on DVD from the library, and it's still fun to watch.

The weird news: IT FIRST AIRED IN 1996! It's going to be 18 YEARS OLD in September. HOLY SHIT! I knew it was old but I didn't know it was that old!

I watched the first couple episodes of NBC's Dracula, then gave up on it. But I wanted to see how they wrapped things up, so I watched the last couple of episodes. The finale...made me laugh a lot, which probably wasn't the point.

( spoilers )

So I definitely enjoyed watching the season finale, but probably not for the reasons the show's creators intended. :)

So I recently found out about the new TV show Yonderland which, from the clips and trailers I've seen, looks to be wonderfully hilarious. I found the official website but am having some trouble understanding the Terms of Use. Can anybody tell me if the show on this website can be watched by people outside of the UK, or if it can't, is there some other way of watching it?

No particularly deep thoughts, just some observations.

( spoilers of course )

THAT'S IT? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

( massive spoilers )

Despite my gripes, I had a lot of fun watching. This isn't my favorite show ever but I was practically bouncing in my seat during the commercials. I'll probably watch the second season but I'll be impatient for it. At least I have Korra to keep me entertained!