We have spilled much ink you and I.
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Sherlock's intro speech from the beginning of episode 12 of season 2 of Elementary titled "The Diabolical Kind."
"We have spilled much ink, you and I, in our discussion of human connection. And we are no closer to understanding than we were when the correspondence began. I often fear as if I’m standing on one side of a wide chasm, shouting across, and wondering if the response I hear comes from you, or if it is my own voice echoing back to me.
It seems to me on my side of the canyon, the search for unity with another is the font of much of the world’s unhappiness. I watch as Watson, eager as ever to extract some meaning from the prevailing social conventions, endures a series of curated mating rituals. It seems to me that she is incrementally less content each time she returns from one.
I conduct myself as though I am above matters of the heart, chiefly because I have seen them corrode people I respect, but in my candid moments I sometimes wonder if I take this stance I do because love, for lack of a better word, is a game I failed to understand, and so I opt not to play.
After all, if I truly had the purity of all my convictions, I wouldn’t regret so many of the things I have done.
Nor would I persist against so many of my better instincts in this correspondence. I find you a challenge, one that in spite of all you’ve done continues to stimulate, and so the conversation, futile though it may finally be, continues, and we are left to wonder - have we simply failed to find the answers to the questions that preoccupy us or can they not be answered at all? Fortunately, for both of us, the world always presents the next diversion, the next elaborate distraction from the problems that vex..."
I truly wish a vocabulary such as this was appreciated and shown more in modern day media, plenty are capable but choose the easiest common synonym in order to make it understandable to all and reach higher viewer ratings, money. The avarice of men will cause the english language to be reduced to it's most shallow point, never to rise again. As a speaker of which english is my second language, I thank shows like these for they're willing to break the ordinary and grant people access to the full range of the language, I for one learn a new word almost every episode. Great show
+Aaron Godderis , I unanimously agree. If nothing else, this show has only depend my subconscious nature of speaking in old English (that and the dialog found within Sleepy Hollow spoken by one Ichabod Crane). Even in it's embrotic state, this show captivated me.
Well...you know he doesn't talk like that in the show right? That there is a difference between written English and a daily speech one? While it is true that it would be wonderful if we could all go back to a time where a more beautiful, more sophisticated English was spoken between men and women alike, it should also be noted that even then, in writing, they would be much more eloquant than in speech. Sherlock, while speaking in an advanced matter, does not use such vocabulary in his daily life.
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You do realise they don't talk to such elaboration like this even in the show, just in their very infrequent letters?
Elementary can be a bit procedural from time to time, but every once in a while it produces scenes such as this that are just mesmerising. I could watch this scene, and the ones where Sherlock talks about his addiction issues ("I decided" & "leaky faucet"), over and over again. Truly beautiful. Johnny Lee Miller is one hell of an actor.
Yes this, exactly. One imagines the writing room where they fire the talent that wrote to his time on this scene, leaving the rest to the mediocrities and schlock merchants.
Ty for that! I am rewatching my uploaded videos 3 years later but that was also a beautiful scene. :)
Absolutely. I keep coming back to this show time and again because of its perfect script and perfect execution.
I kind of wish they had stuck to being more of a procedural, thevdramatic soapy stuff can get overly done, but this is really great stuff right here.
I spent quite some time transcribing this scene. Particularly because it holds a lot of meaning to me and I find personal truth in these words.
If I had known that there was a video with the text in the description, that could have easily saved me 30 minutes
@@Cardboard_Box_Zombie his quotes (or rather the person who wrote it for him) are surprisingly motivating and beautifully poetic. It is a real shame I stopped halfway season 5, because I had seen most of it a while back. I have all episodes on dvd as well. Unfortunately it is a struggle to get all the devices I need to actually play them :/ But now that I have finished all of the other series I was watching I can go back to this!!
one of the most beautiful scenes I've ever come across
You should watch the leaky faucet elementary one. Similarly beautiful.
The writing in this scene is extraordinary, so too the delivery by Miller. Unfortunately, this level of writing quality is sporadic in the series. Much of the dialog is mailed in to ‘advance the plot’. Such is network TV.
@@jstone98 Ty for that! I am rewatching my uploaded videos 3 years later but that was also a beautiful scene. :)
What is this music ?