{"id":232565,"date":"2014-01-14T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/14\/uber-chunks-can-we-take-a-close-look-at-this\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:56:19","slug":"uber-chunks-can-we-take-a-close-look-at-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/14\/uber-chunks-can-we-take-a-close-look-at-this\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/uber-chunks.tumblr.com\/post\/73180792783\/can-we-take-a-close-look-at-this-scene-and-see\" target=\"_blank\">uber-chunks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Can we take a close look at this scene, and see how hard John is imitating Sherlock?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First off, his mannerisms are cold and harsh. He\u2019s blunt, rude, and unsympathetic. Remind you of anyone?\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>He paces while Mary sits and comforts their \u201cclient\u201d. Their poses are exactly the same as it would be in 221B. Sherlock would pace and John would sit and comfort with tea.<\/li>\n<li>John and Mary\u2019s living room could have looked like anything. But instead its a mirror to 221B. The couch, the coffee table. Right down to the window. Maybe the set designers are just not that creative, but I somehow doubt that. \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>John\u2019s bathrobe. It\u2019s blue, its stripey, and the same style favored by a certain high functioning sociopath. To me this was the biggest slap in the face about this scene.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The parallels are painful. John is Sherlock. When Sherlock gets bored, he\u2019s rude and does stupid things (like sulk and shoot walls). When John gets bored, he storms a crack house with a tire iron. They\u2019re both junkies. They <em>crave <\/em>stimulation<em>. <\/em>Whether it\u2019s cocaine or adrenalin, the\u00a0rest of the episode just enforces how badly they both need their fix.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uber-chunks: Can we take a close look at this scene, and see how hard John is imitating Sherlock? First off, his mannerisms are cold and harsh. He\u2019s blunt, rude, and unsympathetic. Remind you of anyone?\u00a0 He paces while Mary sits and comforts their \u201cclient\u201d. Their poses are exactly the same as it would be in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/14\/uber-chunks-can-we-take-a-close-look-at-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16,1968,15,9037,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}