April 23rd 2017’s Episode

I’m borrowing someone else’s laptop to bring you this post. It would seem that my laptop should be available for use as normal starting from the next episode onward as planned. I don’t know why this wouldn’t be the case. I’ll tell you more of what’s happening in the next post. Let’s get to the episode at hand, shall we?

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with a recap of Marcus’s ongoing storyline regarding that one woman he is into. He thinks that he might be charged with things related to that. Watson wants to help with his problems. Sherlock is sort of shot by a person doing a magic trick. I love weird people (mostly because I’m one). Sherlock shows how the trick works. It relates to a case of some sort that’s going on. Was a bullet inhaled?

The second act has more investigation into the case at hand. It’s weird that we didn’t even see the murder. I don’t understand. We get to suspect number one and she gives information about how the victim used to work with her and he started using her tricks. She talked to a detective about this, which she tells Sherlock and Marcus about. Sherlock finds a person running an illegal card place. The dead magician was ripping off a single person in these games. Marcus and Watson talk to suspect number two. Sherlock is there too. The suspect says more about what happened and Sherlock thinks that the person who killed the magician also stole boxes.

The third act has Watson looking at what is considered to be the magician’s bible. I wonder if the atheists Penn and Teller would use one, if it exists in reality, that is. They text an eccentric person about what is going on and they find a flash drive in a fruit there. It reminds me of the ring in the nut in the egg in the lemon trick that I’ve seen. Maybe I’ll post of video of that in the next blog post.

Sherlock talks to suspect number three about the murder. Tommy is there with him. She (the suspect) talks about some of what is going on. She reveals that the book writer was an anagram for a still anonymous person. Sherlock uses playing cards to try to work further on the case. He finds some sort of information that I find very confusing. More of the book is discussed and it seems that the killer/arsonist wants to keep the writer of the book a secret.

The fourth act has even more of the case investigated as they go to the publisher of the book and he is suspect number four. It turns out that he is the grandson of the author of the book and he says what is going on with it. The team reveals their information relating to the case at hand, but he feels that the sales of the book would have spiked if the true author’s identity was revealed. Quickly, we get to suspect number five and they talk about an auction that the murder victim won. Marcus talks more to the person that I think he is trying to date who still has ongoing problems with an abusive person. She reveals what is going on and Marcus learns what he can in order to help with it. Sherlock reveals that he knows who killed the victim. Of course, this leads to the next commercial break.

The fifth act goes back to suspect four and reveals some information that shows that a Nazi was the person who wrote the book. They believe that suspect four is the actual killer and present their theory as to why that would be. Watson and Tommy talk to someone relating to the ongoing subplot regarding Marcus and his girlfriend? They offer him a way out of the deal and Marcus learns that the thing is possibly over depending on how this episode ends. He goes into her apartment with music playing. Of course, that means that she’s murdered.

On the next Elementary, Sherlock thinks that Marcus wants to avenge her death. I can’t make out many more details regarding what else is going on so I’ll just have to wait until I see the next episode to find out what happens. It was a good setup for the next episode, I’ll admit. I should be back with the next update from my own laptop as planned next week. If not, then they’ll be a reckoning with the ongoing issue with my laptop. I should explain more in the next post. Nothing too bad is going on, but I do feel that someone could be blamed if I’m not able to use it sometime later this week. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

April 16th 2017’s Episode

Okay, let’s start with the movie update. First, I added a new list for Monday. That list is the movies The Matrix, The Land before Time, Night at the Museum, The Fugitive, Rain Man, and Bean: the Movie. For OCD reasons, I’ll be watching what I have of Night at the Museum in Spanish. The Matrix trilogy is borrowed from my brother. What did I end up watching first? That was The Land before Time. I replaced it with The Little Mermaid.

I realize that this will probably be posted later than Maundy Thursday. This is supposed to be the post that is the grand return of this blog to Thursdays, but I don’t think that it will be since the Masters are on before this. I know this only affects one Sunday a year, but I’d more than love to just nix this over any and all other things I could nix in terms of sports on Sunday on CBS. I’ll never get over how stupid it was two year ago when they had a winner before 6, but primetime was still delayed because that winner had to walk through a crowd of people and get a coat before the obligatory four minutes of commercials. Then and only then did they start the shows.

Something that might be good with my OCD habits was that this was alternating at a certain time on Sundays instead of the other time it could have been. I picked this to start at one time since there is this cheat I have for updating on specific days for the other blog this was alternating with. There has been a new episode of each show each Sunday starting in March. The day I posted last on Sunday, they were airing the CMAs instead of anything worth watching. Thus, the other blog can continue on every Sunday as if it were one with this blog until it could finally break off. I’m not sure if that makes sense to anyone else besides me, but I’m very happy with how things turned out.

I had planned on watching movies on the weekend, but then a family visit prevented me from watching something on my list on the next Saturday and Sunday. I was wanting to start a new list, but I think that I will postpone that for a bit. On Monday, I was able to watch Rain Man. I replaced it with Our Lips are Sealed. I’ll continue the update in a bit.

Every time it is Maundy Thursday, there are new shows on TV. That’s not always the most annoying thing about it as a lot of series finales have aired then. You might be wondering what shows I watch on Thursdays. Well, remember that I typically watch different shows by recording what I can’t watch live. Thus, there are all different shows that I watch on Thursdays. They are The Big Bang Theory, Grey’s Anatomy, The Catch, Powerless, Riverdale, Chicago Med, and The Blacklist: Redemption. I can’t believe that they are airing the potential last episode of the last show I mentioned tonight. But, I should be done with church by then anyways. I will be watching The Blacklist when it returns. I don’t think that I watch anything else on Thursdays at the moment.

It turns out that due to the incredibly late airing Masters golf crap, the episode that was planned to be aired on April 9, 2017 won’t be airing then after all. Now this means that the episodes planned will be a week late. I don’t know how or when they will catch up. They will at some point. Maybe this will mess up with the season finale will be.

Let’s go back to the movie updates. I was not able to watch a movie on the Saturday before Palm Sunday as I went to church then instead. I then watched The Return of the King on Sunday. This means that I could replace Lord of the Rings with Muppet from Space. On Monday, I watched the first of the two Night at the Museum movies that I have. On Tuesday, I added a new list of choices consisting of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, North by Northwest, Adventures in Babysitting, Back to the Future, Dumbo, and The Little Rascals. The first of them that I ended up rolling is The Little Rascals. I am replacing that with Ice Age: The Meltdown.

I wasn’t sure when the next episode would air. I knew that there would be a special on Easter. It only lasted two hours. They had originally planned on airing a drama repeat at this time. Well, they decided to air the new episode of Elementary then instead. I guess this won’t mess up when their planned season finales are after all. At least I can go back to posting about the actual recent episodes. I have not seen most of the previous two episodes just yet. I should hopefully be able to catch up with that at some point in the near future.

Today’s episode is brought to you by should have aired last week and no delay. We begin with a recap of previous events. I haven’t seen most of the previous two episodes just yet so I’m going to be confused about some of the things that are happening. I also have three older episodes to post sometime, so I’m glad that I have the first one of those ready to be published.

Anyways, Sherlock thinks that he has given Shinwell too much leverage and that he can’t be trusted. Is Shinwell a killer or does he just want to hunt an evil organization? There is a woman/lover/hook up at Sherlock’s house. I don’t think that it’s the autistic woman that he was with. I hope that he broke up with that previous person or he’s just a terrible person. We see at a crematorium that a person was burned alive in there.

The second act reveals that not one, but two people were burned alive at the crematorium or whatever it is called. Sherlock thinks that he knows who one of the victims is. Sherlock learns that Watson had signed them up to be in a detective agency of some sort. Sherlock doesn’t like it as he feels that it gives anyone the power to become a detective even if they don’t really have the credentials. It’s kind of like how the Universal Life “Church” will let anyone become a minister.

The third act has more of the case. They try to identify the victim(s), but don’t really know where to look for leads. They learn of someone who was looking for a paternity test, but the test was inconclusive as it didn’t really have any information. The person that they think is the suspect is, in fact, the probable victim of the crematorium.

The fourth act is when we learn even more information about the case at hand. There was a shooting at a meeting where people became US citizens. Sherlock investigates the crime scene in order to figure out what might have happened. He feels that only someone with the ability to throw a fast ball would be able to cause a certain blood stain to appear. They have a suspect who is the half brother of someone who they think killed the victim. Only a coach confesses instead.

The fifth act has the team thinking that the coach is trying to take the blame for the player’s crime as what he’s saying doesn’t add up. While cleaning up his fake crime scene, Sherlock does something that results in the eventual arrest of the player at hand. He also creates a new agency that can train actual detectives instead of the previous one.

On the next Elementary, there appears to be a magician related case of some sort. That’s all that the promo would reveal of that. I should be back next week with that episode. If I’m not blogging about the most recent episode on a Thursday, then I should be posting one of the three older ones. If you read my Madam Secretary blog, you should know when these older episodes might wind up getting posted as I want to keep these blogs linked up if possible. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

March 5th 2017’s Episode

Sorry for forgetting to add on an introduction to the last blog post. It would have explained how the Sunday updates are over and I'm going back to the Thursday updates for the foreseeable future. Typically, I would want it to be an update on the episode that had aired the previous Sunday. If you didn't know by now, the episode that they planned to air last Sunday didn't end up airing at the Masters ran an hour late which delayed all the other programming and preempted this show. In the event that I'm not able to blog about the most recent episode, then I would have to go back and add on from the episodes that aired during Lent that you have not yet seen. I will go with the oldest one that isn't yet posted. Keep in mind, I will not post my thoughts on the season finale until the other episodes from this season have aired. So, let's get started with the actual blog post.

My movie updates are going to be confusing if they are out of order in the future. This should be the post that solves any confusion potentially starting here in case you were wondering how different movies wound up on the list or if more choices were added entirely. I don’t know what will be happening regarding March Madness, but that could put more of these episodes on tape. I just know that we’ll see what happens each year as it happens. There was at least one movie I was wanting to rent, provided that I can find it and have time to watch it. That, and I’ll be wanting to add new movie lists for more than just Saturdays and Sundays. What are these updates? Well, let’s see.

The first weekend, I’m able to watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Now, while I normally don’t like seeing the same movie twice in a year, I am planning on watching all seven main Star Wars movies again this year. I just have to borrow them from my brother first. Speaking of borrowing movies, a friend lent me Prometheus to watch sometime, so that will replace Star Wars on the list. Meanwhile, I’m borrowing another movie series from my brother to rewatch that isn’t on my list just yet. As for Sunday, I watch The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with commentary, having previously watched it normally. Now, let’s go into a history of my movie watching lists before I mention its replacement.

I’m not going to start at the very beginning as that would take too long. It was two years ago that I received from my aunt and uncle a box of various movies on DVD as a birthday gift during the summer. This affected all of my movie watching lists. At the time, I had two lists: one on Saturday and one on Sunday. I didn’t know how all of these movies would affect the next lists considering how I already had a bunch of movies that I could watch. There was also the complication of underlined choices which are choices that, for one reason or another, I want to watch again. Also, since I normally don’t want to watch the same movie twice in one year, this created a whole potential of underlined choices for the beginning of 2016. Ultimately, I had finished watching all of my Christmas movies on time in December, so I was unsure of how to move forward at the beginning of the year.

I ultimately decided that I would add a new list for Friday at the beginning of the year that mostly contained underlined choices I had been unable to add the previous year. I also made it so that only five underlined choices would appear on the list of replacement choices. I had also crossed out, for the moment, any choices that weren’t their old movies unless they were unlined or there were no replacements under the rules that I used. During this time, I moved Friday’s list to first Thursday then Wednesday so that it would be at the same time as updates to my Survivor blog. Thus, I was able to juggle these three lists between the other choices without much confusion. By the time summer shows started, I had time on a Friday to watch movies due to the lack of shows on that particular Friday night. So I used the declining list of underlined choices to add on Friday. The lists continued to be done and I finally had it so that only one of their movies wasn’t watched yet so I underlined it and finally added any and all choices that I couldn’t have added before to the options. This was a lot of movies to watch again.

Regardless of their being a bunch of new options available, I wound up having to get rid of old lists as I wasn’t able to replace them using the rules that I use. Getting rid of a list isn’t as easy as adding one and it involves moving the old choices to other lists. I got rid of Sunday’s list and dissolved it while moving Wednesday’s old list to Sunday in its place, no longer needing a movie option when I planned on doing Survivor blog updates. It wasn’t long after Sunday’s first dissolved list was fully moved to the other days when the current Sunday list also got dissolved. I moved Friday’s old list to Sunday in its stead and worked on dissolving Sunday’s second list. There is still one movie left to transfer that I’m currently unable to move just yet. Once it is moved, I have a lot of movies to add and plan on creating new lists for them all.

Stuff that was on the second dissolved Sunday list were Indiana Jones, that wound up on Saturday’s list, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which can only be moved once either Hancock is removed from Saturday’s list or The Hobbit series is removed from Sunday’s list. With Sunday’s list, it has the original Friday choices of The Hobbit and Back to the Secret Garden on it. It also has the options from Sunday’s first dissolved list of Front of the Class and, now formerly, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Only the Treasure of the Sierra Madre is now replaced by Vantage Point, the only choice of my aunt and uncle’s old movies that hasn’t been added to a list yet. The other choices on Sunday’s current list are movies that have replaced old choices.

A show called Training Day is airing in this show’s old timeslot. I saw the first episode, but won’t be watching it again. Now an interesting thing happened with it. The lead of the show died. He filmed all of his appearances in it for all of this season before his death. The show is lowly rated and was leaning towards cancellation before his death. Now, while they might be more likely to air all of these episodes, I don’t see them renewing the series without him.

There might not be many or any updates regarding the five books in the rotation that I’m reading. (There are two others, outside of the rotation, that I’m also reading. But I won’t tell you much, if any, about them.) There is a change to the reading rotation. A book in it, Lights, Camera, Fiction, is being taken out of the rotation for now. I have to see a movie before starting a new chapter so I am setting it aside for that reason until I can watch a certain movie.

Now, as for the next weekend, I watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I originally had the first three movies on VHS tape and the last on DVD. One of the movies I got from my aunt and uncle was Raiders of the Lost Ark. I decided to get the other two Indiana Jones movies on DVD and I have gone a long time between rolling the choices. Indeed, Indiana Jones was the choice that was the longest on what was once Wednesday’s list as it was one of the items originally on it when it was first added. This is over a year later and I just now am watching this DVD for the first time having finally taken it out from its packaging.

The next day might be crazy and I have family planning to visit soon. And I roll one of the Lord of the Rings movies: The Fellowship of the Ring. I guess that if I don’t finish it before they come, then I’ll hopefully get it done once they leave. I also hope that I’m able to watch or record this at a good time, but I might have to watch it later online.

It turns out that my family didn’t arrive until Monday and they stayed until Friday. This made me glad that I had already decided to delay this episode being posted in the blog. I just hope that you are glad that older episodes are finally posted before I get back to this one. I would not have been able to post this on the Thursday in question because I hadn’t been able to see it that quickly. I also might not have posted another blog that day after all and, indeed, had scheduled preplanned posts for other blogs ahead of time so I wouldn’t have to worry about them. Hopefully things are back on track in the future as I don’t even know when you will be seeing this post yet.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with a recap of Kitty who was on this show back in the third? season. She returns at the burial of a person whom she believes was murdered. Sherlock wants Marcus to get some sort of evidence or confession from a suspect regarding what seems to be an unrelated murder.

The second act has some of what Kitty has been doing the past two years revealed: she was helping victims of human trafficking. What we don’t know is if she will be charged with the assault or whatever thing she did to that one victim from earlier. She talks to Tommy who is glad to see her. Only she is mostly antisocial this time around. She gives theories as to why she thought that three deaths were actually murders. Sherlock talks to a sociopath in a wheelchair. One of the potential victims had two shoes that were tied differently when he was found dead. The newest dead person was found to have his grave plot dug out and then burnt relentlessly, thus making it difficult to prove that the cause of death could be changed if wrong.

The third act has more of the burnt corpse. Watson and Kitty feel that the ME did a bad job while the ME appears to have thought that she didn’t need to do that good a job when the victim had all the heart problems that he did. Watson follows Kitty to her apartment or wherever she is staying and gets attacked by someone who turns out to be the nanny of a baby.

The fourth act continues this mostly confusing episode. Kitty explains to Watson the story of her son. She wants to tell Sherlock about it, but he gets called away to a meeting. The ME from earlier is brought into the police headquarters and questioned. It also appears as if the wheelchair guy whose name I can’t remember has killed someone for sure.

The fifth act clarifies things for me. The wheelchair guy was the victim who fell onto a car, not the person who might have been doing the killing. Sherlock and his team wonder how they are so wrong about things. The team does learn based on evidence that it’s unlikely that this guy killed himself. There are now four victims of strange crimes. When Sherlock gets back to where he lives, he is arrested.

On the next Elementary, a rogue killer is after Sherlock. It looks like a lot of interesting things are happening. What could wind up happening next? I guess that I will have to wait until next time to find out for sure. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

November 27th 2016’s Episode

Why is a new episode right after Thanksgiving? Remember last year when a new episode of this show was aired on Thanksgiving itself? When will TV know that there are just certain times that you shouldn’t air new shows? Well, I was able to make it home in time for some of the episode, but not all of it, due to my unusual thing I do happening once again. I’m hoping that I am able to watch other episodes and I probably will be since Quantico is going on hiatus soon. ABC may be strange by putting its good dramas on winter hiatuses season after season, but it gives us a break from some shows and the ability to watch other things that they air instead.

There are actually multiple books that I’m reading right now. The main group of them that I’m trying to read right now consists of five books. Deadly Heat by Richard Castle (ghostwritten) is one of the books. Since Castle ended, I’m trying to rotate through all these books by reading one of them on Monday. This book started the read on Mondays rule. I rotate through the books in a certain order where whatever is on top is then read and moved to the bottom in favor of the next book. Anyways, Deadly Heat isn’t as good or interesting as I would want it to be. I’ve been reading that since 2014 after my sister lent me her copy of that. She had lent me the eighth Harry Potter book too at one point, but that wasn't in this rotation.

The next book in line is the second book of the Sentinels series. This may be the first time that I actually got a book because I knew the author of it first. This book is the most recent addition to the rotation of mine, added in 2016. The next book in line is Lights! Camera! Fiction! This book is to help the aspiring script writer, namely me. It is the only book that has been taken away from the rotation for extend periods of time as I have to watch a certain movie before I can finish watching it. This is the oldest of the five books in the rotation in terms of how long I’ve been reading it compared to the others.

The next book is line is Amazonia by James Rollins. I love James Rollins and this is probably my favorite of the five in the rotation as it is the easiest to read due to the action and suspense. I also think that this is the one that I’m the farthest in at the moment. I’ve been reading this since around when I got it as a birthday present back in 2012. The last book in the rotation is the Silmarilon by J. R. R. Tolkien. Some people want this as a movie. I do not like the book that much. This is probably the slowest read of all of the books in my rotation. This is not the same great Tolkien that we are used to.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 49 minute delay. We begin with Watson getting a note from Sherlock. Someone shows up at their apartment looking for Sherlock. Why do Watson and Sherlock live together? I’ve always found that to be strange. It appears that Sherlock is skipping out on meetings he’s supposed to attend. There is a strange murder that has happened regarding someone who was eaten or something strange like that.

The second act has Sherlock, Watson, and Marcus at the autopsy place. A poisoned sausage is the cause of death and a person was what the sausage was made out of. Watson notices that Sherlock is with a bunch of musicians at a park. Watson and Marcus talk to a person about the case as they try to figure out who one of the victims is.

The third act has Sherlock and Marcus investigating the meat industry. We get to people in a lab and people talk about the case. Joaquin is identified as the victim. Brendan, who I will refer to as the Dollhouse guy at times, is a person at the lab who they talk to briefly. Watson reveals that she knows that Sherlock hasn’t been going to his meetings. He knows that she followed him to the park. Sherlock thinks that he’s smarter than everyone else. He then makes different meat. There is more information revealed about the case as Sherlock learns more about it. The suspect reveals information about the case that she didn’t do, even though she did other, unrelated murders.

It was around the 10:30 mark when I start watching. There are commercials still so I basically start watching from the next point forward. Marcus talks about the case at hand and believes that some work may have been doctored. Who is Marcus talking to? Is it Tommy that he’s talking to? Anyways, Sherlock talks to the person who fudged the data. Wasn’t he Topher on Dollhouse? I love Dollhouse! I recommend that people watch that show. They talk more about the meat that was poisoned.

Once again, Sherlock frightens Watson with something unusual when she wakes up. Apparently there are three types of meat in a way. There is some sort of relation to Kosher. My aunt married a Jewish person so maybe I should ask her more about Kosher. I don’t fully understand it or why the non orthodox Jews would be bound by that. The character that the Dollhouse alumni plays says that he didn’t kill Joaquin, the victim. But Sherlock and company think otherwise.

The next act has more of the case as they look for who pushed someone down the stairs. Watson is frustrated that they haven’t been able to solve this case with stupid people as the criminals as they have solved other cases with smarter criminals. Although, lawyers tell me that all criminals are stupid. The two main suspects are confronted by Sherlock and Watson. Brendan (the Dollhouse guy) may get the harder punishment even if he was the lesser of the two conspirators. But, it appears that the CEO gets charged with the biggest crime after all.

Sherlock then goes to his recovery meeting. Have other versions of Sherlock Holmes had drug problems? There are no scenes from next time as they air a promo for Survivor instead and, in recent memory, this is the longest that I have gone without seeing the most recent Survivor episode. There were tons of problems that prevented me from seeing it live and I still haven’t seen it yet. Hopefully I’ll have time to watch that pretty soon. As for this show, I’ll be back whenever with the next episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.