“You are hereby accepted to the Vulcan Science Academy. It is truly remarkable Spock that you have achieved so much despite your disadvantage. All rise.” “If you would clarify, minister? To what disadvantage are you referring?” “Your human mother.”
“Council, ministers, I must decline.” “No Vulcan has ever declined admission to this Academy.”
“But as I am half-human, your record remains untarnished.”
Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the new Iron Man with Riri Williams.” This sentence, and the conversation that we had afterward, was what would eventually turn into the video you all saw posted on Tuesday… [+]
Ok this is a mess and probably not a good likeness of either, BUT hear me out: Book accurate Sherlock with Dev Patel as Holmes and Riz Ahmed as Watson? Please?? I’ve convinced myself that I need this. Patel’s Sherlock would 10/10 shake a baby’s hand (among other actual canon Holmes shenanigans). Besides, Riz already has that long-suffering “what have you done now, Holmes” look.
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