Nelsan Ellis Tribute

I learned on July 8, 2017 that Nelsan Ellis, who played Shinwell, has died. I didn’t think that I’d do any posts of this blog until it returned, but I should do a tribute to the actor who passed away of heart disease since he did have a main role on the show for this most recent season.

This man died so quickly, he still has a new film coming out. It is called True to the Game and is set to be released on September 8^th, 2017. If I can see it easily, I’ll be sure to review it as it is his final role that we’ll ever see. The plot relates to a criminal trying to get out of his crime business in order to settle down with a young woman. Here’s the trailer followed by my thoughts on it.

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JV5dTITBxY

Thoughts on trailer: This is a film that is black-centric by the looks of it. I hope that it is different than how the others look, but I haven’t seen enough of this genre to know what the difference might be between them. It could be interesting, but it also seems like it could lead to stereotypes. I guess that I’ll have to see if it is good or not. Expect a review when it comes out provided it is in most theaters and not some other format. I hope that Nelsan has a major role in it, although I’ll watch it regardless.

Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, it’s time to mention more of Nelsan’s film and TV career. He has played some real life characters in the movies Secretariat, The Butler, and Get on up. He also appeared in a movie based on the controversial Stanford Prison Experiment. Another film he did was The Soloist which has a story based off of an actual person. The other, notable film that he did was The Help which I should watch sometime. The only shows he had a major role on besides Elementary were True Blood and The Inside, the second of which didn’t last a whole season before it was pulled from the schedule, although all of it aired outside of the US.

I do have to wonder if Elementary will pay tribute to his character or not. He was killed off already, but they could and probably should now do a better send-off than what his character got. I don’t know what we will see in the upcoming season or when it will start. Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later. But that’s not the point of this blog post. Below are two tribute videos to him.

Link one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hDizIATVaE

Link two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EZnWyGmN34

Well, I might as well wrap up this post as I can’t really make a quick video for him without a youtube account and I don’t have much need for one of those right now. I should review the film he is in next in this blog provided that it is a major enough film for me to see in a local theater. I will miss the actor even if I didn’t really like his character. Keep an eye out in the future for a review of that in this blog. I’ll keep the actual updates for that movie in my CSI: Cyber blog so be sure to check that. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

May 21st 2017’s Episode

Despite all of the odds against this show, it will be returning sometime next season. What do you know about that? Pretty cool, right? Guess that I won’t have to do any major changes to how this blog is updated. We’ll see if the show lasts beyond next season or not. I’m surprised it even lasted past this season. We’ll see what ends up happening. Guess there will be a long gap in posting between this post and the premiere of next season, especially since it is going to be on the midseason schedule and could be getting a long delayed, shafted, final season treatment like Person of Interest did. Networks are no longer so kind to shows that they don’t actually own.

Now for the next movie update which will go through everything I see before this blog gets posted. On Monday, I watched The Matrix. I replaced that with The Matrix: Reloaded. On Tuesday, I watched A Wrinkle in Time and replaced that with Thomas and the Magic Railroad.

Now during the summer, I have special ways of watching things that I do when I have enough extra time to watch movies. It isn’t exactly the summer yet, but I still had time for that. I’m just going to mention what is watched and what replaces it.

I watched Baby Boom and replaced that with the Aristocats. I watched Celtic Woman: A New Journey and replaced that with Celtic Woman: Song from the Heart. I watched Bend it Like Beckham and replaced it with Bambi.

Today’s episode is brought to you by ~3 minute delay. We begin with Sherlock writing some sort of note. He then meets up with Watson. Sherlock appears to be suffering from burnout, although Watson thinks that he might be using again. That’s why I could never risk becoming a druggie. You never know when they might relapse. There is more gang talk about Thin Boy. Can they throw in a white person into the gang to be less of a stereotype? Anyways, people, possibly police, but hopefully not, shoot some gang members dead.

The second act has the team investigating what looks like another gang shooting that killed all the people of SBK. Sherlock wants to be away for a while. He interrogates a priest who might be corrupt. What an original idea! He then gives a message to this priest who is working with SBK. Another person is talked to about the ongoing case. Sherlock talks more to this mystery woman who I’m really confused by. Who is she? Is she related like a person thought she might be? Sherlock then talks to a person from a rival gang who insists that the other side started everything. How convenient.

The third act has a terrified, kidnapped woman who delivers a message to a person. It seems that she is dead now. Sherlock offers more theories into what is going on. They interrogate a suspect and he finally reveals information. Sherlock wants to do anything to stop the fighting. Carmon’s roommate reveals more information about the case. She was a witness to the initial kidnapping and was too scared to help. They are looking for a person with possible tattoos. Sherlock and Watson learn more information about the case in question. Watson then has a major revelation with the case.

The fourth act has someone skeptical of the possible fact that Mr. Wilcox, the main SBK member, is the killer of Carmon (probable misspelling) and doesn’t want to trade immunity for the fact that he might have killed someone. It doesn’t seem that people are showing up for Shinwell’s memorial service. I hope that my funeral stuff is taken care of for when I pass. I don’t know if I should assume that it is taken care of or will be. I despise people who assume (or, at least when they say they do).

Sherlock seems to have a breakthrough with the case. Watson is upset that Sherlock wasn’t there for the service. They have it out with each other. Watson makes a possible deal with someone related to Mr. Wilcox, it seems. This is a long act. Sherlock talks more with the mystery woman who I’m still confused by. Is this a lover of some sort? Things are coming. She’s in a place that she set on fire that’s nearby to where he is. What is going on? Why is this show so weird?

The fifth act seems to have more evidence brought into the murder of Carmon. She fought back against her captor. Watson and Tommy bring in all the evidence they have against Mr. Wilcox and it appears that he is sent to jail. We then go back to Sherlock and the mystery woman. What happened with the fire? They kind of glossed over that, didn’t they? Once again I’m confused by this and the discussion that they are having. Wait, is this person real or did he somehow imagine her? They seem to imply that it is possible brain problems of his. The episode ends, making me glad that this show is renewed or we wouldn’t have any more information going for the episode.

I’m going to have one last, important paragraph in this post. Everything afterwards you can ignore. I have no idea yet when I’ll be back with more episodes. That’s because I have no idea when the next, new season will be. Hopefully, it doesn’t get the Person of Interest treatment, although I’d be surprised if the next season didn’t wind up being its last. This will be the last post for a while. I’ll either be back sometime after the season premiere or have a random post or two (or even more) between that time and now. I’m not yet sure if regular updates will be on Thursdays as they have before or not. Just wait until after the show returns and then you’ll know. Now, on to random crap!

Let’s finish the movie updates until this post is published. The next thing that I watched was Bean: the Movie. I replaced that with The Devil Wears Prada. I then watched Back to the Future and replaced that with Back to the Future Part 2. Next, I watched my grade school graduation DVD (which actually doesn’t have any of the graduation on it) and replaced it with my high school graduation DVD. After that, I watched Finding Dory with commentary and replaced that with The Emperor’s New Groove.

What I watched next was Titanic. I replaced that with National Treasure. I then watched Rush Hour. I replaced that with Rush Hour 2. Next I watched My Best Friend’s Wedding and replaced it with Jason Bourne. After that, I watched The Emperor’s New Groove and replaced it with Finding Nemo.

What I watched next was Power Rangers: The Ultimate Rangers. I replaced that with Pocahontas. I then watched Thomas and the Magic Railroad. I replaced that with Shrek. Next I watched Celtic Woman: Songs from the Heart and replaced that with Celtic Woman: Believe. After that, I watched The Aristocats and replaced that The Best Years of Our Lives.

Shows disappearing until midseason are a recurring problem that we see on CBS from time to time. It might not appear again until a drama is cancelled like Doubt was. It might finish airing in the winter, partly during the empty Survivor timeslot. It might not return until May when it could burn off. Those are some ideas or something else different could happen. Since we won’t know when Elementary is returning, enjoy the following video in the meantime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU27gd34R-I

Back to the movie updates: I watched American Dreamz and replaced that with Avatar. I then watched Rush Hour 2 and replaced that with a tape of a play recording I was in of The Wizard of Oz. That might be all the movie updates that I can fit in for this blog post. I wondered what to do with movie updates from this point forward. I thought of moving different updates to different blogs (as there are different movie lists) or telling you a huge, long update of movies for when the eventual return of the show is. I decided that I will actually tell you no more about these movie updates.

http://adamdeckercsicyber.blogspot.com/

The above link is a blog that I still update every month with updates as to what the cast of the show is doing now. I also sometimes talk in the introduction of the blog about updates to the CBS schedule. That will be where you should check to see when this show is returning. This show is technically being replaced by Ten Days in the Valley although Madam Secretary is taking over its old timeslot. I have no idea when this show will be back and thus have no idea when this blog will be updated again. Sometime next season it will air its season premiere. Hopefully it won’t be as late as the summer, but it might be as long running dramas becoming midseason replacements on CBS typically get their swan song in the end. I don’t even know if I will be back here on Thursdays or not. But when the next new episode of this show airs, I’ll be back with it at some point. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

March 26th 2017’s Episode

Hopefully this blog will be normal after Lent is over. Speaking of Lent, you might be wondering what I might have given up for Lent. Well, I started with three things at first: CinemaSins, all Wikia sites, and CinemaWins. At the suggestion of others, I added discussing politics, procrastination, and making excuses. We’ll see if I’m successful at all of them. I tried giving up procrastination for Lent before, but it didn’t work out. The next year, I thought that I would give up three things so I could fail at two of them and still be okay. I ended up being successful at all three so that became the norm. I wanted to give up three things again, but that ended up changing with what others wanted to add. I could wind up making it more than three in future years, depending on what I’m successful with.

Now for the movie update. I finally rolled what I wanted most to roll so I can finally transfer the last of the dissolved list from Sunday. By watching Hancock, I can replace it with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy from Sunday’s second dissolved list. Now I can create new lists, which you will see in future posts, some of which you have seen already. On Sunday, I watched Catch Me if you Can. I replaced it with Enchanted. Starting next week, you’ll see a new movie list added followed by more in the future. I guess that we’ll see how many we add in the future.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 34 minute delay. We begin with Sherlock talking Watson that Shinwell killed a person. We then go to some sort of auction going on. The storage locker or whatever they just bought has a dead person in it.

The second act has the team learning of the death of John Doe. This person has a note on various dead people who died without heirs or wills. I need to work on my next will. People find suspect #1 and this might be one of the people who bought the storage locker. This is a friend of the victim who might be identified. Travis is the name of the victim. Sherlock and Marcus find a treasure chest. There is another person that Watson talks to. This is the person who believes that Shinwell killed his brother. Sherlock talks about the ongoing case and mentions that a captain made up data.

The third act has people learning about the pirate treasure and stuff like that. Sherlock questions the motives of a person and he says that he found the location of this treasure. Only someone was there before he was and took the treasure then. Sherlock then confronts Shinwell about the person that Shinwell murdered. Watson and Tommy talk to a person who seems to have the treasure from the ship that they were looking for. He is rich and didn’t need to steal anything. The police think that they have a suspect, but it turns out that his daughter was the person who might have hacked something.

The fourth act has the person known as cashgar or however you spell it talking to everyone about the case in question. She insists that she was just the middle man in the case. There is yet another suspect that they talk to. This person mentions pirates that they might need to look for. Sherlock and Watson talk more about Shinwell and Sherlock’s distrust of him.

It is at this point around the 10:20 mark that I start watching. Some ships were sabotaged in order to slow a person down. They talk about the ongoing treasure hunt. I don’t know who this suspect is just yet. I’m going to guess that this is the last, false suspect that they are interviewing, although it could be the guilty party depending on how else they finish this show. Sherlock thinks that she’s telling the truth about being innocent. Sherlock comes up with another one of his famous theories regarding how nothing might be what a person was looking for.

The next act has Sherlock showing a clip from a movie of some sort. Could you really make more money with a flop than with a hit? What flops are financially successful? They learn that this person wanted someone else to find a treasure so that he wouldn’t have to pay out on a price that he promised over a quest he was certain would yield nothing. So this person, whoever he is, was the person responsible for the crime.

Shinwell shows up and beats up Sherlock for some reason I don’t yet know having not seen the earlier part of the episode just yet. Shinwell also thinks that an organization that Sherlock might be working with is evil and he seeks to take these people down. There are no scenes from next time so I’ll be back whenever with the next new episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

March 19th 2017’s Episode

My sister had her baby so this blog shouldn’t have any major problems with updating. She doesn’t live too far away, but I have no idea when I might go to visit her and see the baby. Hopefully, this won’t be affected in any way. If it is, that’s okay since I made it strange by finally posting about old episodes at the expense of posting about more recent ones.

I was busy this weekend, so I didn’t know if I’d be getting any movie watching done. As soon as I’m able to move one choice to this list, I’d be able to add new lists. I can’t decide if I want that to happen or not since watching movies means having less time to do other things. Hopefully I’ll be able to add new lists by the summer (Mayish) at the absolute latest.

Well, family visits prevented me from watching a movie on Saturday, but I was able to see something on Sunday. I watched the movie Back to the Secret Garden which I’m not entirely sure if I’ve seen before. Not sure if I’ll watch it again, but I wouldn’t mind doing that. It was from Friday’s old list. Its replacement is Catch Me if You Can.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 35 minute delay. We begin with a person torturing another person for some odd reason. Someone is listening to what’s happening, so I hope that they report it. Sherlock and Shinwell were boxing for some reason. Sherlock and the team find the crime scene, only it has disappeared in a car.

The second act has more investigation into the crime. They still don’t exactly know what is going on. Shinwell was shot at, which he doesn’t think is a big idea. There is a mayor election going on, which could be important for the future. They play the recording for a person that they believe is the wife of the possibly murdered person. They find more evidence with the case,

The third act reveals that the murder was over a guitar. The mayor seems to be hard on cops as part of his campaign. The creepy guy who wanted to kill people on The Last Man on Earth shows up and mentions more about the case where he seems to jam over the ongoing case. There is a person at a college campus that investigates the case. Someone then finds this guy who has a guitar and gets murdered with it.

The fourth act has people learning that people think that the recording helped solve the case. It then has a suspect being investigated. It appears that they have everything they need to regarding the case and all they need is a confession. Here my past self takes over.

It is at this point around the 10:16 mark that I start watching. Watson is talking to a suspect with Tommy and Sherlock with her. They get a suspect to confess to a murder before they learn of second murder that happened. Who had an important guitar? Sherlock talks to Shinwell about the case. Marcus and Watson talk to a woman presumably from earlier about the case. Is that the woman from Braindead? I don’t think so, but she looks like it. She says that there was fraud over a recent software hack or breach. A person made it seem like shots were being fired when they weren’t.

The next act has Sherlock waking Watson with the recording of a gunshot. Sherlock reveals more of how a suspect was killed. They learn of an elected official who committed fraud. He is confronted by the whole team. They reveal the information about all of the crimes that went on and how this guy was responsible for the other murder. Sherlock then talks to a victim of a robbery gone wrong that may have been a victim of Shinwell’s. Thus the episode ends.

On the next Elementary, there are secrets of a pirate treasure that are revealed. Of course, it relates murder of some sort or some other crime that is being investigated. I guess that we will find out more for sure about what happens when it happens. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

March 12th 2017’s Episode

Let’s just skip to the movie watching that I did. Hopefully, I roll the right choice to create new lists for the future. But, my history with these lists proves one thing for certain: if you want something to happen, it probably won’t until you don’t want it. I still don’t know if I want it for sure or not. As for Saturday, I watched the first Celtic Woman concert. That option remains on my list for now so I can watch the other concerts. While there might be a time it ever gets removed from my movie watching lists, it hasn’t happened yet. On Sunday, I watched The Two Towers extended edition. This means that Lord of the Rings remains on the list for now. Apparently, John Nobel, who plays Sherlock’s father, was in that movie.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with a recap of Eli, the wheelchair person, and the suspicious deaths that have resulted in relationship to it. We get to Sherlock being interrogated after being arrested for murder. Only this isn’t a real law enforcement person since he doesn’t seem to be on the up and up. Whether he is or isn’t doesn’t seem clear. Sherlock is dropped off and reunited with Watson and reveals more information about the case.

The second act has Kitty coming to the house with annoying music being played as Sherlock thinks that he is under surveillance. They learn that Eli (I think) had paranoid schizophrenia. Watson believes that one of his rants was actually based on a true thing that people were trying to cover up by killing.

The third act has more of the claims that something happened in Venezuela that got various people murdered. There is more investigation into the case. Watson and Kitty are with a person when a guy in a motorcycle tries to kill him.

The fourth act reveals more of why Sherlock has seemed a bit cold towards Kitty. He thought that she shouldn’t have just left without informing him that she was okay. We also get to the explanation behind what has been happening. There was an added news story on one of the files that someone wanted to start a war with Iran.

The fifth act has Sherlock wanting to prove the Iran story as #fakenews. There is a stand-off between police and the person who wants the story to spread. Sherlock is able to find out information and defuse the situation. Kitty decides to baptism Archie (baptize and christen are the same thing, right?) and she wants Sherlock and Watson to be godparents. I guess that Sherlock make her an offer she couldn’t refuse. They will be staying in touch.

On the next Elementary, a guitar is central to the plot. Why is rock and roll considered the devil’s music? You’d think that rap would be a much better example of that. Also, where would Christian rock fit in all of this? Sorry, I went off of a strange tangent there after the first sentence of this paragraph. Anyways, for now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

May 14th 2017’s Episode

There’s not much else to tell you about right now other than what movies I am watching. On Monday, I watched the post gathering DVD of the 2007 LCMS National Youth Gathering from Orlando. I replaced that with Power Rangers: The Ultimate Rangers DVD that I’m calling a movie length thing even though I could watch the episodes on it individually. On Tuesday, I watched Adventures in Babysitting. I replaced that with Absolute Power.

You may wonder how I feel about Shinwell being killed off. Honestly, I’m not sure that I care that much. The only way it really bothers me is that they never gave him that much of a story in the first place. He was an underdeveloped character that wasn’t even in the whole season that he could have been. Maybe other people felt there was more to him than I did, but I didn’t really think too much of him other than him being a screw up that kept making more mistakes.

I didn’t have time for a movie on Saturday due to attending my cousin’s wedding instead. On Sunday, I did have time for a movie. I watched Front of the Class and replaced it with Bend it like Beckham. That’s all for this movie update.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with a recap of Shinwell’s story arc this season. Now there might be a potential SPOILER involving a family member of Sherlock coming up in this or a future episode so I guess we’ll have to look out for that. END SPOILER. Sherlock thinks that Watson missed the killer by minutes, but it might as well have been years. Sherlock wants to make sure that Watson doesn’t blame herself for what happens. She doesn’t feel responsible. They will then have to go with war with the gang. Is it SPK or something else? Is it SBK? If I knew what it stood for, I might know for sure. Things can get confusing quite easily in today's TV world.

The second act has people continuing to investigate Shinwell’s death. They try to hunt down the gang leader. Sherlock thinks that a tax problem relates to what they are investigating. That’s not too far off from reality considering how tax evasion is what got Al Capone arrested. Sherlock goes to one of his meetings about his former drug addiction. He then talks to a person about the case at hand, I think. I don’t fully understand who this woman he is talking to is.

Marcus and Watson talk more about the case to another person. Some picture is used to protest the current president. Maybe I should add that to my page. Marcus, Sherlock, and Watson go to a place to investigate the case. The Folsom person that they believe to be the leader of the gang and main suspect is there and they talk to him. Things get tense for a moment.

The third act has Watson talking to the person that I think was called Thin Guy. He thinks that SBK (if that is the name) is the only person who took care of him. Sherlock brings out an enigma machine that he thinks that Folsom uses. He talks to the woman from earlier and he has some sort of issue with her that I don’t understand. I haven’t seen two recent episodes yet. Watson works on interrupting the lingo of the gang that they are investigating. The gang might have looked like something didn’t really happen that did. I didn’t understand that.

The fourth act has people talking about the case more. Sherlock finds a new way of going after the gang members. It seems that they bring in Folsom’s brother for questioning. The suspicion goes to this brother as the real mastermind behind this whole case. I know this is a fight I can lose but the accused is an innocent man. Wait, that’s something else. Sherlock investigates more and has yet another theory into what is going on. Watson and Marcus appear to have a good idea as to how to solve their case. Sherlock then talks to another person. That person reveals that he thought Sherlock sent a message that he actually didn’t. Marcus finds some crime going on that I don’t understand.

The fifth act has Folsom at the hospital and they think that he won’t make it. Watson thinks that his brother might have done this to him. I don’t know if they can finish this episode in time. Watson and Marcus talk to Folsom’s brother and he thinks that bad things could happen. Sherlock then talks to that woman from earlier that I don’t understand. Did they ever explain who she is? There is more mystery to her as the episode suddenly ends.

On the next Elementary, the season finale airs. They have many different details that are hard to catch. I couldn’t watch Shades of Blue tonight so I saw this episode live and might have missed things as a result. I should be able to watch the episode at some point. But I have three other episodes to post about before I tell you about the last one. I just hope that I have time to watch them. There will be at least four new posts as a result as I post the March episodes you haven’t seen yet then the season finale episode that will air on Sunday. I will see you then. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

May 7th 2017’s Episode

I don’t think that this show will be around next season. If it is, it won’t be on CBS, but probably some cable network or something like that instead. Remember that I will blog about the final episode of this season last, making sure that any other episode from March that hasn’t been blogged about yet will be posted then. I wish that I had these written already, but I don’t at the moment. If this show does end, then I will continue this blog in a way I’ll mention later.

Now for the movie update. On Monday, I watched Our Lips are Sealed. I replaced that with Rush Hour. On Tuesday, I watched North by Northwest. I replaced that with A Wrinkle in Time. On Saturday, I watched The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I replaced that with Graduation DVDs that I have. The first one that I’ll watch (relating to grade school) is a bit of a misnomer in terms of graduation. Then, I’ll get to the actual post graduation DVD from high school. On Sunday, I watched Pleasantville and replaced that with Titanic. I had waited until Sunday was open before I put Titanic on the list.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with the end of a completely irrelevant case, it would seem. Watson gets a text from Shinwell. She lies about it to Sherlock, but he’ll find out. A woman goes into what she thinks is probably a paintball game only to wind up murdered.

The second act has more of the murder being investigated. Watson does meet with Shinwell. It turns out that the victim was part of a reality show that involved hunting people with paintball guns where the last person standing wins a million dollars. They think that the death was to cover up an elimination that we otherwise wouldn’t know about. Sherlock does deduce quite easily that Watson met with Shinwell. He then shows this one person who has a lot of scars.

The third act has the main suspect revealed. He had killed some people back in his home country and was granted amnesty. Sherlock finds a costumed person which seems to be the stereotypical millennial type. Sherlock thinks that she would be a potential victim. They are able to find the guy who then reveals more information about a person that seems suspicious. You know, this game could actually work as a real reality show. It is kind of like Hunted, only Hunted was the players versus the game. This show would be every player versus all the other players.

The fourth act has some more confusing aspects being brought up. Maybe it is just confusing to me. They go to a strip club to do some more research into what is going on. Watson talks more to Shinwell and he has information that would ultimately put himself away. Sherlock and Marcus talk to another suspect named Washburn and he reveals a deal that gets him out of trouble. But Sherlock is certain that he can find whoever the real killer is.

The fifth act has the team revealing to the producers their plan for trying to catch the killer. It turns out that one of the producers is the killer. I don’t fully understand why that is. Watson goes to Shinwell’s home and finds his bloody body, probably murdered.

On the next Elementary, it is revealed for sure that Shinwell is, in fact, dead. They look like they might be in a gang war with SPG over this. This season is winding down to the end and it looks like it will all be over soon. Given this show’s tendency to do more self-contained storylines, one can hope that’s what happens at the end of this season. If it does end this year, one would want it to end well. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.