#Bligh

[wipbigbang]

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[bligh-lynch]

Happy Birthday Bligh -- and Happy West Virginia Day

I didn't -- couldn't -- celebrate last year because my Dad had passed. But this year I say again, as I try to: thank you Bligh. For everything. And thank you West Virginia, my eternal homeland, for gifting me roots and providing me with family and heritage that cannot be extinguished. Montani. Semper. Liberi.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"I work in the field of violence. Not knowing Eliot Spencer in our line of business, it's a bit like not knowing Rembrandt."

Leverage Redemption S01E01 The Too Many Rembrandt's Job.

Bonus:

[glassfullofsass]

Thinking about Elementary and I am Unwell. You know how some episodes open with Joan being badass and cool all by herself because Sherlock's fucked off somewhere on his own and it's like. Shit, I could watch a whole season of Joan solving mysteries on her own and hanging out with Clyde and Bell and Gregson and having homoerotic tension with nemesis. But then Sherlock comes back and you realize. Fuck. Shit. They belong together. You can't have Elementary without both of them. Because yeah, they are their own people and we know that off screen they're doing their own things and living their own lives. But the story being told is about THEM. it's about their partnership. It's about these two people that love each other. Elementary isnt about Sherlock Holmes. It's about Sherlock and Joan and their partnership and goddamnit I'm gonna cry about this fucking show again istg.

[missfisherandjack]

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 1x03 The Green Mill Murder

[julianakorner]

[userkayjay]

A PLACE TO CALL HOME 6.08

[minilev]

Vicar Septimus Bligh

[ltwilliammowett]

William Bligh's sword | National Maritime Museum | Greenwich - 29 von Paul Dykes Über Flickr: Sword of William Bligh, captain of the HMS Bounty, whose crew mutinied against him.

[francescatelford]

SARA WISEMAN and MAYA STANGE in 6x04 Of A Place To Call Home

[unfortunatetheorist]

*Joint Theory 5 - @unfortunatetheorist & @snicketstrange*:

The End - Book Canon vs Netflix Canon

(Does Ishmael have a greater impact on our protagonists than expected?)

As much as we would have loved, or hated, to have seen the books' material 'copied and pasted' onto our screens, there are some things in the material that are simply too difficult/horrible to film, such as Dr Orwell & Sunny's 'duel', in TMM.

In this theory, @snicketstrange and I (@unfortunatetheorist) are going to be investigating differences between Book The Thirteenth, The End and Episode the... Last (26th?), The End.

The first is that:

BOOK: There is some narration from Lemony.

NETFLIX: There is absolutely NO input from Lemony.

This addition by Netflix removes the books' doubt of Lemony being a reliable narrator, as it shows the Baudelaires' direct experience.

Book Lemony knew what had happened there and the consequences of it - Lemony knew Kit had died when he wrote TE. But Netflix Lemony only discovered this after he met with Beatrice Baudelaire II. This is an important chronological difference: when Beatrice II started looking for Lemony it was around the time he was yet to publish the TWW book, and that is evidenced by the fact that Beatrice Jr did not identify the paperweight in the shape of leeches despite her having already read some of Lemony's books according to her words.

The Netflix show's writer(s) probably chose this to deal with TSS's secret letter. The screenwriter(s) interpreted the letter to mean that Lemony did NOT know that Kit was dead.

Meaning:

BOOK: Lemony knows Kit is dead during the writing of TE.

NETFLIX: Lemony does NOT know Kit is dead until he meets Beatrice II.

Also, this notable curiosity:

BOOK: Every single islander is NAMED.

NETFLIX: Only a few of the islanders are named, such as Miranda, Friday and Alonso.

This could be due to the fact that in the books, the Baudelaires are implicitly, but still evidently, Jewish. In the Netflix series, they probably saw that as some sort of risk of anti-semitism (i.e. Jewish persecution) and so had to remove all possible traces, e.g. Rabbi Bligh, to ensure the show still aired.

Another:

BOOK: Ishmael was chemistry teacher at Prufrock.

NETFLIX: Ishmael was the principal of Prufrock.

This is quite considerable, especially linking to ATWQ and Cleo's love and talent for chemistry - he could('ve) be(en) a chemistry teacher with the name Ishmael N Knight, as a family member of Cleo and Ingrid and... Cleo's other somehow-forgotten parent. Also, the fact that in the series, Ishmael started V.F.D. - this means that Netflix's Baudelaires had it wrong the whole time, but they only learnt when he mentioned his story: in the Netflix series, the root cause of the Baudelaires' trouble was actually Ishmael.

If he didn't start V.F.D. nothing would've happened...

Now we come to what is, arguably, the most important difference of all:

BOOK: There is a mutiny/schism between the islanders, because the islanders do things in secret, such as Professor Fletcher teaching islanders how to read, and Madame Nordoff learning how to yodel.

NETFLIX: There is NO mutiny.

The mutiny was probably left out of the Netflix series due to the budget for showtime and money - it was too much to carry out.

However, within this difference, there are other differences, such as:

BOOK: The Baudelaires [temporarily] get kicked out from the island, before Finn and Erewhon bring them some mild onion soup.

NETFLIX: Nothing happens to the Baudelaires.

There's a lot to unpick in TE, even for Snicket-ologists like us; it can get really trivial, especially with lines like Olaf's "You don't know anything".

As the 'poet' Emma Montana McElroy said:

"That's the end of that".

¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph & @snicketstrange,

Unfortunate Theorists/Snicketologists

[singinprincess]

DAVID BERRY as JAMES BLIGH A Place To Call Home 1.03

requested by @lordjohnwgrey 💜

[viharistenno]

"It's fine. They don't murder people at private clubs. It's unbecoming to the members."

- Sophie Devereaux on Alexandra Bligh taking her to a private chit - chat

[shmit1]

Merry Christmas Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Style

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

"A private nurse learns the truth about men!"

"A nurse's job is to pamper and please men. . . . But Kay Taylor was too beautiful, too inflammable herself, to soothe any man. . . ."

"Kay needed pampering herself, and as a private nurse, she was able to find it, with the husband of one patient and the sweetheart of another. . . ."

The premise for Wayward Nurse, a Venus Books publication, "first with the best in original love fiction," published by Star Guidance, Inc. in 1953, is about as steamy as it gets. Kay Taylor, a confused and love-hungry private nurse for wealthy clients, plows through one train-wreck romance after another until finally ending up with Mike, "for all her life," on a boat that is apparently being followed by a shark (a metaphor, no doubt) -- "And on creaked the mast, on gurgled the great, undulant, golden sea. . . ." (another suggestive metaphor).

Wayward Nurse, first published in 1952 by another pulp publisher Cameo Books, was written by Norman Bligh, one of the many the pseudonyms of the ultra-prolific pulp novelist William Arthur Neubauer (1916-1982). We think the cover art by noted American magazine and pulp-cover artist Rudolph Belarski (1900-1983) is perhaps the second most provocative cover in our nurse romance collection of over 500 titles. The most provocative will be presented in coming weeks, so stay tuned. And we are just tickled that the publisher made the effort to mention that the highly provocative (for the early 1950s) photograph on the back cover of a couple in their swimsuits (or is it their underwear!) was "Specially posed by professional models" -- as if to say, no nurses were harmed in the making of this photograph. Delightful!

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[missfisherandjack]

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 1x12 Murder In The Dark