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Julio rambles about Watson and things that happened the past week.

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This is Julio's Corner,   my corner of the Internet where I talk about whatever is on my mind.   I'll mostly talk about stuff I've watched, read, or listened to, but sometimes I may ramble on about the news or politics or in society at large.   This episode is being recorded on Sunday, 12/14/2025.   And welcome back to the show.   A lot has happened. Well, not a lot, but,   a week has gone by that I did not record.   And the reason why I did not record last weekend,   which  I guess would be December 7,   is that,   my apartment flooded.   To be more specific,   the apartment next door flooded,   and the water from that apartment   creeped into mine.  

So I spent   a good portion of my morning   after arriving,   you know, coming back from work.   I spent a good portion of the morning cleaning up and drying up   my bedroom,   my bedroom closet,   the hallway outside my bedroom,   and the bathroom area. And,   and yeah. So that took up most of my Saturday morning.   And, so I slept later than normal. So I woke up later than normal. And that pushed back everything else that I was planning to do this weekend.   Sorry. Last weekend.   And so, yeah, no recording of my podcast was done.   So we're back,   week after the fact.  

Thankfully, it was a one time thing. I hope it'll stay that way, and, there'll be no, re repeat   offense from the apartment next door.   So, this episode is gonna be unscripted for the most part. I have my bullet points.   And, also, I mean, there isn't really a lot,   to script,   so to speak.   At least   well, regardless,   this is a non scripted episode. It's just gonna be me rambling,   per normal.   The last   the previous two episodes that were scripted were fun,   but shorter than,   than my normal ramble. So   so I gotta find a balance between the two   formats, so to speak. I need to figure out   what's,   what's better for me.  

Anyways,   so   the past few weeks or, well, mostly this week that just has passed that passed,   I've been, mostly reading manga and watching some anime   based on the mangas that I've been reading.   I go through these,   I'll call them seasons,   where I decide to   switch it up,   my, my media content.   I don't even remember what I watched previously.   Obviously, there's these, shows that are currently airing on on television,   Watson,   Sheriff Country,   and,   Boston Blue and a few others. Well, a couple of them are on hiatus now because of the holidays or whatever.   And   so those aside,   I mean, there's a   a k drama that's on the back burner. I just haven't gone back to it. There's this revolution documentary by Ken Burns. I'm currently on the second episode.  

Oh, yeah. McGray. I I watched McGray   before this,   and I finished that season.   I was watching, this werewolf show called Biddon,   and I watched the first two seasons. There's only one more left. But, for whatever reason, I just decided   okay. I'm taking a break. Also, it's Christmas holidays now, so   I'm more inclined to wanna watch some Christmas movies. I I saw a few of those.   But a lot of them, I I don't wanna watch some   classics because, you know, I've seen them. I was trying to find some newer content, but   most of these Hallmark   Christmas movies   are not that good.  

There is this this,   this Hallmark show slash   movie franchise called the Good Witch. I am I am checking that out.   I did watch the first two movies of those, which which are okay. They're not great.   It's,   you know, the actress is cute, so I'm watching it mostly for her because she's pretty.   Catherine Bell is her name. But that aside,   I've been,   the YouTube algorithm has been showing me some   trailers for different animes that piqued my interest.   And I like to go to the source first. So I go to the mangas, and, and then I've   speed read through them.  

And, so now   I'm on hiatus with them. So I put them on my my manga database of mangas that,   you know, I sped read through that are incomplete. So I'm just, you know, keeping track of the last chapter I read and whatnot.   So yeah. So the ones I'm current ly   watch reading is reincarnation of re reincarnation as a sword,   and this other one called,   Tsukimichi   Moonlit   Fantasy.   I think that's what I think that's what it's called, Tsukimichi   Moonlit Fantasy,   which are   they're both isekais.   That that seems to be the genre that I'm mostly into   anime wise and and manga wise.  

So, yeah, I'm into that.   And,   there were a couple that I erased I I sped rant through. One was called, jack of all trades, master of none.   And,   what was the other one?   I go through so many   that,   something about an aristocratic born in another world or something like that.   So I'm I'm I'm in the middle of Tsukimichi   moonlit fantasy and reincarnation as a sword. Those are the two current ones that I'm   reading   at the moment. But, anyways,   let's get to the, meat and potatoes   of the show.   We're gonna talk about Watson. I mentioned this   a few episodes back, how it is a   it's sort of, you know,   a reimagining of of a character from the Sherlock Holmes universe. But it seemed to be more like House MD because   Watson   is a doctor,   and he's not really   trying to solve murder mysteries or anything like that, which is generally   Sherlock's purview.  

So   I did watch the first season. I watched all of it, and it was, like, 13 episodes. And and I'm on currently on the second season, which is airing on CBS right now.   I think it's up up to episode eight at the moment.   And, yeah, it is definitely   more   of a   House MD copy   with a veneer of Sherlock Holmes   familiarity.   Meaning, you know, you have,   Sherlock Holmes. You have   Watson, John Watson,   Mycroft,   this female   that was Sherlock's love interest. I forget her name.   Yeah. The name escapes me. And then, of course, some new characters that were created for this specifically for this show where,   Watson has this   clinic, this foundation,   funded by Sherlock Holmes's money that he left in his will because, you know, he faked his death.  

And   they tried to solve like these   unsolvable medical cases, basically,   which is why they're right above or or next or in the same building that's,   that that runs a hospital   that is, managed by,   Watson's ex wife.   And I think the characters,   names escape me at the moment. But,   but they're all   basically, they're all, like, psychologically   damaged in some way, which is why Watson handpicked these people because on top of trying to solve these these cases,   at least as the first season goes, the way   the   colleagues   are reading it, they're also part of an experiment   of what you know, Watson just studying them,   in in their,   controlled environment, so to speak.  

So you have, these twins   played by two different actors, but I guess they're using, like, CGI or whatever to make,   the other actor look exactly like, the the other one, the main one, so to speak.   And so one one suffers from severe depression.   The other one   suffers from alcoholism, but he's, he's now sober.   And he's,   so the one that suffers from severe depression,   is an actual,   I forget what his specialty is now that I'm   I'm drawing a blank now.   But but he's basically   into more serious   medicine. I think immunology   is what is his thing.  

And then you have   the the twin who's more into, like,   general medicine, general practice.   Then you have this this sociopath   who's   a neuro neurologist.   And and she was originally hired in the first season because Watson was suffering from brain damage.   And the whole first season was him,   you know, medically   administering,   a cocktail of drugs to help   manage his   brain damage   symptoms so he can continue   working when he should be instead resting and recovering. He wants he he's basically trying to speed run his recovery with, all these, medications that he prescribed to himself   through someone else.  

And, of   course, at the time,   in the first season, you had Moriarty.   That's the Sherlock connection. He decides to fuck around with, Watson by   blackmailing   one of his colleagues, Shinwell,   to switch his medications with other other   medications   to mess with his brain or whatever,   which is which was weird because, well, there they never   clarify what the end goal was. Was the end goal just to mess with his brain? Because, you know, so so the medications that he switched it with was like   wow. I can't speak. Or hallucinogenic   hallucinogenics.  

So they were making him hallucinate   and and and and have him have mood swings.   And then there was another one that was messing with his blood pressure, I think. And then he was and then, of course, Moriarty   started blackmailing   the, the sociopath   slash   neurologist   to destroy   his   his collection of,   his cultures. I I don't know. It's I'm I'm I I don't know medical terms, but I think they were, like, culture cells, his cultures,   which could be used to, fight   different ailments.   So   so you have, the twins. You have the the the sociopath,   and then you have this, this Asian girl   who was adopted by, a family in Texas. So she has, like, a or Georgia. I think it was Texas. Somewhere in the South. So she has, like, a southern accent.  

So naturally,   she has, I guess, abandonment issues.   So she's always trying to please.   She's also,   I think she was also in in immunology.   I'm I'm so bad with medical terms.   Immunology? I think that's how you say it. Immunity. You know, she fights she she,   she's involved with the immunity system the immune system. So immuno I think it's immunology. Anyways,   so the way the first season eventually ends,   one of the,   actually, both   twins   get   poisoned in a way   because it was, attacking their genetic code. And and it was actually only one of them was targeted because, apparently,   Moriarty did not realize   that there was a twin brother. So it just   it was just double the fun. By attacking one, it affected the other because they, you know, they're twins. They're genetic,   twins, identical.  

So they both got affected with the same   thing.   And the cultures that would have saved them were obviously destroyed by   the sociopath because she was blackmailed into doing it, not realizing,   that they would be needed to save those two guys.   And so, anyway, in the end of the first season, it,   you know, once once the sociopath finally confesses to to what her,   because she felt guilty, obviously, when she saw that now both twins were dying, and it's her fault.   She decide she she came clean,   with Watson. And   so Watson now knowing that Moriarty was involved with all this,   he   gets   him infected   with the same   tactic based but, you know, attacking his genetic code because that's what in this show, Watson's a geneticist. He's a geneticist,   and, and,   I forget what other specialty. But but, yeah, he's all about the DNA,   your genetic code. And so he was able to   use that, against him. And   in order for Moriarty to be healed, you're gonna have to give him if you want the antidote for you, then you have to give him the antidote for the twins. And so that's how that's how the first season ended. And, of course, he ended up not healing Moriarty, so he killed him. So he went against his   Hippocratic oath of do not harm.  

And, and the reason being is   because Moriarty kept causing harm to him and and his   his company, his, his coworkers.   And, of course, he he killed Sherlock because that's what he believed, that Sherlock was murdered by Moriarty.   So   he had more than ample reasons to, to just let him die.   And, of course, there would be no way to trace it to him because he he died of a disease,   even though it was   genetically engineered by by Watson   in the same manner that Moriarty   did the same to the to the twins. So, anyways, he dies.   The second season begins with the sociopath,   now being   you know, because of what she did,   she quit the job or she was forced to resign. I forget.  

And she started and she joined a   psychology group of fellow sociopaths, basically.   The twins, of course, are   trying to make life better, trying to, you know, get past   that trauma.   One of   them got it worse than the other, suffered worse, so he has to walk with a cane.   But he got involved with,   that Asian girl,   because, you know, they were kind of showing that   relationship build up in the first season. So now in the second season, they're now they're, you know, they're happy. They're a happy couple.   And, and the second season is, for the most part,   outside of   the Sherlock verse because, you know, they got rid of my Moriarty.  

And Mycroft showed up for a few episodes threatening to, close down the home found the Watson Foundation   because he suspects that   his brother is, in fact, alive and is ruining his company because   in his will on top of giving the foundation to to Watson   for his brother Mycroft, he gave him this   medical formula.   But   he actually   it was basically   not a Trojan horse, but it was basically like a like a time bomb because   the whatever the drug was, the form the drug formula that he gave Mycroft,   it,   it was, it wasn't a it wasn't a stable one or whatever. And it after, like, three months of   circulation or whatever, it just   started going bad or whatever. And,   so that's affecting, obviously, his, his stock value and and the company itself.  

So then he he so   Mycross start threatening Watson,   with taking over taking away the foundation   if,   because he's Holmes.   And, outside of, even though his brother,   you know, willed   the foundation to to to Watson,   somehow, legally, he could still take take control of it because he's the living relative.   So outside of that little subplot that   they stop   that there doesn't seem to be a a,   conclusion. It it just they just   ignored it the past, few episodes and just continued with, you know, these medical   stories.   Outside of that,   it's pretty much just a medical show,   with these weird situations.  

The last one actually was kind of,   AI based because there was this kid who,   basically, you know, the   AI psychosis thing that's going around in in in the news and and social media. Apparently, you know, young kids,   developing these, relationships with these chatbots, these AI chatbots,   to the point where some of them are committing suicide or self harming themselves or or whatever. So in this episode, the last one they had there was this this kid with autism   who,   you know, had this AI that was making him   do bad decisions.  

Like, one was the first one wasn't so bad. It was to   convince him to to confess to this girl that,   was his lab partner in in high school, his chem hence chem lab partner. And, of course, she is not into him at all. She's just a friend.   But the the chatbot   was convincing the kid that no. No.   If you're not if you were reading the signs correctly,   she's in fact into you. So you're gonna you're you're actually gonna score with this grand   gesture,   asking her to the prom. And, of course, it blew up in his face.   And then   but whatever. A little embarrassment.  

But then the AI   was convincing him that there's something insidious going on in that girl's household,   so you need to   prove it. And if you prove it,   you know, that the the father is, you know, doing something bad to her or whatever,   you'll you'll you'll be the hero, and then you'll win her over that way. So he went to the to their house again in, like, the middle of the night   looking through their garbage. And, of course, the father comes out   and,   chases him away.   So as he runs, into the street, he gets he gets hit by a car by a moving car because, you know, he wasn't looking.   And he, you know, he's in the hospital healing or whatever,   but he's suffering from from this whole AI psychosis. Because even though   logically he understands that, you know, this is not a real thing,   He still is letting it influence his his, decisions.  

But outside of that,   you know, Watson   started asking him, like, why did he go there and whatnot.   And   he was the kid explained her his observations about   how he noticed that the the girl's,   walking her, her her gait   changed. So she felt like he felt like something was like like, he was he was thinking that maybe she was being abused physically or whatever.   So Watson sends, you know, two coworkers to their house,   and that girl starts   she she faints in front of them.   And it turns out her brain is hemorrhaging   because, she's part of a the cheerleader   squad in of the school. And apparently, she, she had a head injury,   during one of the practices,   and they didn't think much of it. But in reality,   her brain was hemorrhaging, and so they needed to resolve it. But then, of course, on top of that, there was, this other weird   syndrome that she was suffering from that was genetic   that was discovered later in the show. So, you know, it's still a very   crazy   diagnosis, like, HouseMD   based show,   with just   the Watson,   Sherlock branding.  

I still find the show interesting because the characters themselves   are interesting enough that that I'm, I'm invested to continue watching it.   Some people find   Morris Chestnut portrayal of Watson to be   unsympathetic   or something. Like, they think he's too arrogant or whatnot.   I don't I don't quite see it that way. He he just seems very   medically folk like, very   medical focused, and and he doesn't really come off as to   he he definitely doesn't come off as arrogant at all.   There are times where he   he he does seem more   what's what am I looking for? How am I to describe it?  

Not sympathetic, but more   interested in   in the issue itself, the medical issue itself.   And, and and because of that, he doesn't really his social skills aren't   as,   as good as, you know, a normal person, so to speak.   So outside of that,   the characters are interesting enough.   So I'm I'm still watching it for that reason.   But I can't I don't know where the show is going. Like, it doesn't really because unlike this is definitely one of those shows that's just it's mostly episodic.   There's no real subplots happening in the background as as much as the first season. The first season definitely was a little more,   there was a a overreaching story arc because of the whole Moriarty character   influencing,   people,   you know, Shinwell,   messing with his medication, and then,   forcing that other girl to destroy his cultures,   and then, you know,   then the big the big finale in the end of that first season. This season, like I said, they started with the whole Mycroft thing. Well, first, they brought back Sherlock,   which was a nice which was an interesting surprise and then having two episodes with him,   you know, reminiscing   of all times and and, you know, Sherlock catching up with what Watson's been doing with the foundation and, of course, sabotaging his brother Mycroft. But then he disappears,   and then Mycroft enters the fray.  

So basically, he's threatened Watson.   And then he basically tells him flat out, you know, if you don't tell me if you don't admit that what that Sherlock is alive and tell me where he is,   I will shut down the foundation. But if you tell me what I wanna hear,   I'll I'll I'll be hands off and and leave you to your devices.   But then after that episode, he just hasn't been around for, like, the last two or three, and it seems   that, you know, Watson has   control of his foundation again. He's able to do whatever he wants.   So I guess that's implying that he did, in fact, admit to Mycroft that, yes, Sherlock is alive.  

But he wouldn't know where he is because Sherlock just said, I'm not gonna tell you where I am. I'm just gonna go. And he did. So I don't know about that.   But regardless,   I'm still interested enough to continue watching it. It's interesting enough, the the episodes,   even though I don't know where it's going. It's definitely not,   the most quality of, writing, but   the characters are interesting enough,   to keep me going.   And I guess even without a script, I can do a short episode.   So   and that wraps up the show.   If you are watching this on YouTube, don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe.  

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