as he was in the conan doyle stories
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 9 August 2010 15:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
though i guess watson was in AFGHANISTAN in the stories too eh
xp
― max, Monday, 9 August 2010 15:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Cumberbatch's Sherlock uses modern technology, such as texting and internet blogging, to solve the crimes"
some talk on the bbc iplayer thred:
SHERLOCK
starring martin freeman and bernard cumberbatch
first episode has been and gone and was surprisingly... actually alright
― the tape store called... (cozen), Monday, 26 July 2010 08:20 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Holmes texting and using 'tinternet seemed really natural. Also LOL at "three patch problem". Running around central Loldon with a map overlaid on the screen = DUD though. Wish it were slightly less nu-Who like, but it's a Mark Gatiss thing so inevitable.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 26 July 2010 09:05 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Gatiss totally played the brother as Panto Mandelson.
― the phantom flâneur flinger (suzy), Monday, 26 July 2010 09:55 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Wish it were slightly less nu-Who like, but it's a Mark Gatiss thing so inevitable.
You don't blame this on Moffatt at all? I really liked it.
― ailsa, Monday, 26 July 2010 16:40 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
read that as new-wu and got confused and excited.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 26 July 2010 17:42 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
xp I got confused. It's a freaky Moffatt/Gatiss joint all the way...
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 26 July 2010 17:50 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This was good. Very good. Although Martin Freeman's basically playing Martin Freeman.
Intriguingly their 221b baker street set has a near identical layout to the one in the Granada/Jeremy Brett version.
― no, you're dead right, it's a macaroon (ledge), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 11:35 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yeah, it's hard to imagine anyone looking at the pasty, pudgy Freeman and thinking 'hm, there's a military man, not long back from under the Afghan sun'. This was okay though. Cumberbatch great, Gatiss grates.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 11:39 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yeah Cumberbatch was terrific and this series has fantastic potential.
Didn't think a modern Sherlock would work but they somehow pulled it off, the GPS and laptops aspect didn't feel shoehorned in but where they nailed it was getting the atmosphere. The way it was filmed really helped give a claustrophobic and menacing Victorian feel to modern London, lots of dark back alleys and very little of the visual clutter you associate with this city. They should keep the series out of gleaming office buildings and keep it in the realm of dark streets and snug old pubs IMO.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 11:44 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Liked this a lot, and I'm a bit of a Holmes traditionalist. Only bit that felt a bit LOLmodern shoehorned was the continued references to them being in the gayXorz. Or is that an in-joke about 'Sherlock', the game for the Spectrum and C64?
― Hey Jabulani! Pope of four four two. (aldo), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:42 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I thought martin freeman was really good; surprisingly so, in fact, but granted I've not seen in him in anything stand-out since the office
― cozen, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:45 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
The way it was filmed really helped give a claustrophobic and menacing Victorian feel to modern London
also the way my PS3 auto screen dimming kicked in after about 30 mins and i didn't notice for another 30 :/
― no, you're dead right, it's a macaroon (ledge), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:47 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Only just caught up with last week's, good stuff. I like the fact they included a puzzle without an explanation right at the end (Sherlock's comment re how to tell a good restaurant, with the answer presumably being lol Chinese people are short)
― if, Sunday, 1 August 2010 19:45 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Am quite enjoying Sherlock, I have to say. Thought the last episode was a bit laborious, but among other things I like a lot - the configuring of London topography in a way that reminds me strongly of Machen, Stevenson (funny sort of London but still a version of it), and Conan Doyle (museums, small out-of-the-way shops, abandoned houses, dark side-streets); all the emphasis on hidden information - again a sort of reconfiguration of the London environment, whether it's mobile communication or graffiti; the way it patterns Victorian sensational fiction themes (such as the sax rohmer yellow peril stuff of the last one) on to the 21st century; + all the comic book stuff (a touch of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen about it, again perhaps not surprisingly) and, you know, a proper fight! behind the curtain of a stage! Great!
That last one was extremely indebted (presumably deliberately) to The Talons of Weng-Chiang, not at all a bad thing imo.
I don't watch a lot of tv so maybe there's a few programmes doing interesting stuff like this, but yeah, good stuff.
― Hide the prickforks (GamalielRatsey), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 12:34 (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
thought sherlock was p.dece on the whole
― cozen, Monday, 9 August 2010 08:54 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i never made the sherlock holmes / dr who connection before but so many things about holmes and watson are so VERY who, aren't they
i thought the first episode was tremendous - i love the text overlays on the screen
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 August 2010 11:11 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― ledge, Monday, 9 August 2010 15:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
lot of grousing on ~forums~ earlier about moriarty and his accent but I thought he was ace
― cozen, Monday, 9 August 2010 15:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
moriarty was p. great last night. Also really like the floating-text-message device. and the coat.xp otm
― stet, Monday, 9 August 2010 15:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
moriarty was great i thought! sad that it's already over tho? didnt realise there were only going to be 3 eps
― just sayin, Monday, 9 August 2010 15:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
has xmas special written all over it
― cozen, Monday, 9 August 2010 15:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Haven't seen the third one yet but the first two were pretty good fun, I hope they spin a few more out of them.
― Matt DC, Monday, 9 August 2010 16:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
woah wait, what, that's it? ffs.
― stet, Monday, 9 August 2010 16:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
3 eps too many imho
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 9 August 2010 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
well each one is the length of a movie. it's basically 3 dr whos, or 6 half hours of american television (approx 20 mins each)
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 August 2010 16:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
er i mean 6 dr whos, and 13 half hours of american television
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 August 2010 16:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
is this seeable w/o cable
― pies. (gbx), Monday, 9 August 2010 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
do u know about "the internet"
― max, Monday, 9 August 2010 16:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
no :(
― pies. (gbx), Monday, 9 August 2010 16:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
I saw the first episode & all those words floating around reminded me of "Ghost Writer."
― spanikopitcon (Abbott), Monday, 9 August 2010 16:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
benedict cumberbatch Vs. sheldon turnipseed
― conrad, Monday, 9 August 2010 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Totally watchable. Was disappointed with Moriarty, the end of last night's episode was a little soppy. Still good though, Cumberbatch was great in the role.
― mmmm, Monday, 9 August 2010 17:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
I watched this last night, I was pleasantly surprised - "reboot" of an old favourite character is usually shorthand for dreadful garbage, but this was good. It was schlocky, but kind of felt like grownup schlock, not adolescent bollocks. Cumberbatch was great.
― Take my hand, we'll make it I swear (Pashmina), Monday, 9 August 2010 18:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
low expectations for this, found it to be surprisingly enjoyable, although there's plenty of stuff to nitpick about. ep 2 was the weakest, I think, trying to update the 19th century version of the "exotic orient" just came off a bit too silly. and ending the last ep on a cliffhanger, with no word on when the next one will be-- irritating. but everyone above on the greatness of Cumberbatch is otm.
― her breath came in short pants (sciolism), Monday, 9 August 2010 20:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
How come there's only three episodes? That seems crazy.
Benedict Cumberbatch is the name of some Hogwarts reject, I still refuse to believe that that is a real name.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 9 August 2010 20:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
― conrad, Monday, 9 August 2010 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
That might be even worse! Although it is pretty close.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 9 August 2010 21:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Three 1 1/2 hour films is pretty good going - wouldn't have been surprised if they'd just got to make one single episode to start with, tbh (though I think they did an hour-long unscreened pilot which became the first episode). Presume Moffatt and Gatiss a bit busy with Doctor Who stuff as well.
Also, everyone saying Ben Cucumberpatch is awesome is incredibly OTM. I've seen him in other stuff and not been wowed, but he fits this really well.
― ailsa, Monday, 9 August 2010 21:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Speaking of weird and colonial, three guesses why Cumberbatch is a relatively common name amongst African-Americans. Benedict Cumberbatch is really excellent.
Won't someone respond to my point that Mark Gatiss' Mycroft is like watching Peter Mandelson in panto?
― duchy of Pornwall (suzy), Monday, 9 August 2010 21:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
three guesses why Cumberbatch is a relatively common name amongst African-Americans
This reminds me of thinking that maybe ska pioneer Theophilus Beckford was related to mento singer Stanley Beckford or U-Roy aka Ewart Beckford, until it was pointed out that there was another reason why a lot of Jamaicans are called Beckford. Which was a slight bummer to my joyful contemplation of reggae history.
Think it's about time I watched this Sherlock, too.
― rah rah rah wd smash the oiks (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 9 August 2010 21:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Didn't Gatiss say he'd based him on Mandelson?
― ailsa, Monday, 9 August 2010 21:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
I have no idea, but it is super-funny. I want to see him sitting on a big throne with a bound volume of fairy tales.
Benedict Cumberbatch has brought his family history up in interviews to basically say o_0. A few years ago I was at a book launch and was introduced to a frightfully posh young man whose surname was Womack. I hadn't realized this was an English name AT ALL until that point, and then the guy told me the singers' surname was no accident because theirs had been a slaving family.
― duchy of Pornwall (suzy), Monday, 9 August 2010 21:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just watched the third one, this kind of nonsense is 100% up my street. Not much that I didn't enjoy, there. A few months ago we re-watched all the Jonathan Creeks and this filled the void that left quite nicely. Although J-Creek wouldn't have had any woooo mysteeeerious stuff (left mysterious).
>>SPOILERS>>>>>>>>I totally called Moriarty as a bad guy the first time he appeared, then forgot. WHY would someone faking a painting make half of it something so weird and "obviously" fake? This really confused me. Was the mistake put in there deliberately by Moriarty? But how?>>>>
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 05:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Btw in the opening shot, my husband was convinced that Sherlock was actually Alan Rickman. He looks and sounds identical there!
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Only grouse so far (apart from the fact that ep.2 wasn't as good as the other 2) is I hope they don't just go for lots of murders. One of the things I enjoyed about the originals is the stories about non-lethal puzzles and oddities.
According to Zoe Ball (who, I'm sure, must know) Cumberbatch went up for Dr. Who and Matt Smith went up for Dr. Watson. Someone in casting seems to be doing the right thing anyway.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 09:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
They're already setting up Holmes marathons in the USAhttp://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iVaDQ26TVnBtf3h0iisgyybUFRTQ
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 09:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Matt Smith read for Watson and was judged too manic, but when BC was approached to try for Doctor Who, he didn't want to do it because of the merchandising nightmare. This information is available to anyone who reads a newspaper.
― duchy of Pornwall (suzy), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 09:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
cumberbatch would have made an impeccable doctor imo
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 09:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
This was a lot of fun to watch, and I hope they make more... Cumberbatch borrows a couple of mannerisms from Brett (quick lift off the chair while sitting in it indian-style, and the quick flash of rictus type of smile) but takes a totally different, and appealing, tack with the character. I also loved the mindfuck where they show the overhead shot of him at his desk, looking like he's just shot up. As intended, it made me think "here we go again, lazy scriptwriters making Holmes use cocaine DURING a case, which he never ever does" and then it turns out to be nicotine patches! Hilarious. They got me.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 09:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
I had no idea his mum is Wanda Ventham. Blimey.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 09:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
BC even turned up as a guest in a friend's wedding photos last week (she's from a luvvie family too). Truly this man gets everywhere.
― duchy of Pornwall (suzy), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 09:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Fast forward to 7:14 for nice comic moment and Michael Winner looking like an ass.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 09:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
He would have ruined the show for me thanks to his "You have to bite it!" scene in Atonement. In Sherlock it's not as bad because I can't see him raping Martin Freeman.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm sure ILX's slashfic aficionados know where to find exactly what you describe.
― duchy of Pornwall (suzy), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Blimey indeed, I just happnened to see her in The Saint before I left the house, what a babe!
Dr. Who is a bit like Sherlock Holmes in many way.
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
would objectify
― unchill english bro (history mayne), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Really ejoyed this. Even Martin Freeman was suprisingly decent, but Cumberbatch was amazing in the Sherlock role. Was talking to a friend about Cumberbatch in Doctor Who and we both came to the conclusion he would make a great Master to play off Matt Smith if Steven Moffat ever goes down that route.
― Mr.Prologue, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
second series!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/10/sherlock-second-series-bbc
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
would objectify― unchill english bro (history mayne), 35 minutes ago
― unchill english bro (history mayne), 35 minutes ago
^^^^^^^^Genuine laugh out loud at this popping up in blog view. Would seriously love if this caught on as a meme.
Kinda follow Penny Red's views on "oh lawd enough with the Holmes already" but, erm, I <3 Cumberbatch for his Momusian turn in To The Ends Of The Earth. I'm avoiding reading any of the slash (it's already turning up in my LJ stream) until I've seen the thing. Which at my rate of tellyviewing is, erm, never.
That is all.
― all your life is channel 13, Sesame Street, what does it mean? (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm avoiding reading any of the slash (it's already turning up in my LJ stream)
always read this as LJ you-know-who
― "It's far from 'loi' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Loving it so far - Cumberbatch great, Freeman really good as well (nicely balanced between easy-to-follow everyman & the more actorly damaged army doctor, which is a nice reading of Watson), there's wit & nous in the modernising, cute nods for the fans around the place (Mycroft losing weight, Rache, plenty more I'm missing), really likes London. Perfect Sunday viewing.
And seconded on the drug-haze misdirect - so glad that it didn't just blunder into the world of EDGY Holmes cliché.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 12:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Another vote for 'would objectify'. LULZ
― duchy of Pornwall (suzy), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 14:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thought this was going to be a disaster and was blown away - the bar is set so high in the first ep that the second seems really weak by comparison, tho. LOVED the Mycroft scene in the first ep, fooled me completely.
In the original Study in Scarlet 'Rache' actually IS the German word for revenge! So to have Sherlock lecture Lestrade on how pedestrian that guess is is hilarious.
Nice fan site, tons of interviews etc http://www.sherlocking.org/
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
teensy lol that "hey, mark gatiss wrote some doctor who episodes too!" has not come up as a selling point thus far.
― ban opinions (reddening), Monday, 13 February 2012 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
IT NEVER WILL.
Just thinking about The Idiot's Lantern annoys me.
― Nicole, Monday, 13 February 2012 03:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
I read one of Gatiss' Who novels that was quite good. And one of his audios that was trying hard but non-entirely-awful. All his TV eps until Night Terrors have about five minutes of great business and otherwise suck terribly though. Night Terrors is PERFECTLY DECENT Dr Who, there I said it
Wait, NOBODY liked "Rose" all that much!
Almost everything shitty about Rose is Boak stuff they couldn't reshoot, it's Davies' best-written episode IMO - does an amazing job of setting up the premise and characters for new and old viewers alike, establishing the tone of the series, grounding it in present-day reality and very steadily opening up the alien and adventure aspects. It LOOKS absolutely awful (especially in hindsight), but in 45 minutes singlehandedly invented a working paradigm for a massively successful family-friendly C21st version of Dr Who. I p much hold RTD on estimation with JNT as a showrunner, but the dude is a TV genius for the way he envisioned and enacted nu-Who, and most of that is encapsulated in Rose.
This is cutting the nose to spite the face for real, especially when there's great non-Moff episodes like "School Reunion,"
<3 the hell out of School Reunion, but it's of 0 use to Tehresa trying to get into the sherlock "bloke"'s other series.
"Human Nature"/"Family of Blood,"
OK-ish adaptation for most of the time, but soooo much lesser than the novel, which is still free on archive.org. and the ending is so infuriating that I'd write the entire two-parter off even if it was original. iirc me and st3v3m argued abt that on the Who thread of the year tho.
"Midnight,"
RTD purposefully trying to write a Moffatt-style episode, but let down by his own complete disinterest in plotting that makes sense.
and "The Shakespeare Code."
dude c'mon
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Monday, 13 February 2012 07:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Rose, Spearhead and Eleventh: the only good "new Doctor" episodes ever.
Night Terrors is no shoddier than Hounds Of Baskerville
</on the real>
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Monday, 13 February 2012 07:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
No place in that list for Robot? Really?
― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Monday, 13 February 2012 09:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
<I>OK-ish adaptation for most of the time, but soooo much lesser than the novel, which is still free on archive.org. and the ending is so infuriating that I'd write the entire two-parter off even if it was original. iirc me and st3v3m argued abt that on the Who thread of the year tho.</I>
This is some pretty severe challops dude, it's one of the three or four best Tennant episodes, admittedly partly because of the lack of Tennant-as-Doctor, also a feature in Blink and Love & Monsters (and I'm well aware that my love for the latter is challops).
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 February 2012 10:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
(But agree entirely about Rose - the episode's job was to get old fans and new fans simultaneously giddy, and it did a great job)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 February 2012 10:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was kind of wondering, was the point of the ending "The Reichenbach Fall" to get the viewers to apply the "Sherlock method" on the episode itself? I.e., did the makers deliberately include all the bits of information you need to decipher how Sherlock survived in the episode, and then refuse to explain it, so you'd rewatch it and try to find all the clues yourself? Because there certainly were a lot of potential clues: the ball Sherlock was toying with, Sherlock's final meeting with Molly, the biker who ran down Watson, etc. I can't see any other season why they'd end the final episode of the season with such an infuriatingly open note. (Ok, the first season ended with a cliffhanger too, but at least the mystery was solved before that.) Has the writer/director/producer addressed this after the episode ran in Britain?
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 February 2012 11:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
He said that "everyone" had missed a crucial piece of evidence that explains how Sherlock did it, so yes, it does seem a little like they were imagining viewers could piece together the puzzle.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 February 2012 11:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
He still says "everyone" has missed something in The Eleventh Hour that explains everything too, so Posts Very Much In Character.
― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Monday, 13 February 2012 11:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Robot is 40% good I guess? Lots of it is rly rly shaky and it doesn't have anything like the confidence of presentation that the other three do. (It's possible that ep 1 of Robot is 90+% great, I can't think what's in episode by episode. The CSO in ep 4 is bad enough to mark the entire story down though!)
I've never rewatched Love & Monsters but I think I really really like it too - it's an entirely elegant way of using the show to tell a story that's simultaneously about fandom and communities in general, and in many subtle ways about Who itself. Also a VERY elegantly-conceived and handled way of handling a 'holiday' episode for the stars!* Would have been way better without the Blue Peter villain, but that said, lol Ian Levine.
we should probably migrate to a Who thread rather than dig into Human Nature (/ any of the last couple dozen posts) here, but I note you're not counter-arguing that it's BETTER than the novel!
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Monday, 13 February 2012 11:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
*I recently watched both The Aztecs and The Time Meddler for the first time in full, and these do great jobs of being busy and interesting enough that you don't miss the holidaying actors tbf
The only thing I know Moffatt's said about clues in The Eleventh Hour is that Rory's badge was a production error, so anyone looking for more is on a hiding to nothing
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Monday, 13 February 2012 11:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Moff has referred to the extra stairs as well, for example, and gone 'aaaaaah'. (No, not aaaaah. This is not an aaaaaah situation.)
I still like Ian L, but I suspect if I rewatched it I would not be as vituperative about how much of an attack it was on him. Still, paving slab blow job jokes DO NOT WANT.
The CSO and Action Man tank let Robot down, but the first ep interaction with Harry and AGLS is joyous. And I love the whole plot about the elderly scientist being taken in by the Not Nazis Honest Guv and their anti-human meeting in a school sports hall. (Agree though, this should probably be in a Who thread).
― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Monday, 13 February 2012 11:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Still, paving slab blow job jokes DO NOT WANT.
I 100% agree with this, mainly because you can't use "it's a kids' show, stop moaning about it being for kids" as a defence if you're then including things that are not suitable for a kids' show. Also, blow job jokes in Doctor Who are just tacky.
― trishyb, Monday, 13 February 2012 13:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
OK. I think I decided this isn't actually very good. Maybe if I was 10 I would like it.
― De La Soil (admrl), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Seriously, does it get better? I only seen the first two. There's nothing too wrong with them, it's just a bit bland?
― rrrobyn van pursuit (admrl), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think i like it because it makes me feel a bit like a kid, yet still an adult, obv - suspension of disbelief stuff. though the show doesn't always work to that effect, it's true. (lol @ yr display name)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Adam, the second episode is probably the worst in the series, you should at least watch the third one, it's much better. But if the main concept (aspie guy solves outlandish crimes with the power of deduction) doesn't grab you, that isn't gonna change, though the second series at least has more interpersonal drama.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Amazon in the UK currently has the first series on region-free blu-ray for £6. I'm guessing there's not much in the way of frills on there.
― trishyb, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
bbc dvd/blu-rays are normally pretty extra-laden (cf their doctor who discs), i know these discs have commentary tracks, at the v least
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
old-school Dr Who extras are largely compiled by a dedicated nerd network though, not through endemic BBC policy AFAIU. (no idea about the new series ones though)
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
or you know, we could google
The extras on the DVD are a little thin on the ground. There are commentaries for A Study In Pink and The Great Game, along with a short ‘behind the scenes' feature, Unlocking Sherlock, and the original 60 minute pilot. To be honest, there's little point in watching the pilot, as it's a 60 minute version of A Study In Pink, but it's nice to know that it's there.
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
I could go and open the one that arrived from Amazon today, but I'm too lazy.
― trishyb, Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not to drag out the Who thing, but I just wanted to point out that as awesome a sci-fi story as it is, and arguably as good a Who episode as it is, "Blink" doesn't really introduce viewers to the Doctor?
― omar leeettle (Leee), Friday, 17 February 2012 06:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
It just takes us back to a time when Carey Mulligan wasn't a bland nonentity like she was in Drive.
― Nicole, Friday, 17 February 2012 11:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
:(
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp - actually I think it does! It's an intro to the Doctor from the point of view of a bright civilian, we learn what she learns, it's a little brisk but doesn't I think skip past anything you need to know, and by the end you have a decent wordcloud of him - alien, energetic, travels through time, frequently sorry.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
An alternative entrypoint could be the Girl in the Fireplace, which has equally beguiling time travel tricks up its sleeve but features a lot more of the Doctor.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
A little of that Doctor goes a long way :)
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Isn't there a separate thread for Doctor Who?
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sorry if that sounded harsh, but it's sad to notice new posts in this thread, but when I click on it none of them are about Sherlock.
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
We have nothing to say until Smilin' Steve Moffatt deigns to drop the revelation bomb on us.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tuomas we are talkin about which Dr Who eps a Sherlock fan might like. So it is sort of connected. Sorry you're bummed out tho.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://circletheglo.be/post/19574276992/redscharlach-otters-who-look-like-benedict
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I watched Hound of the Baskervilles on the plane recently, and actually enjoyed it despite some of the cheesy bits. Cumberbatch is quite a good Sherlock! Think I will investigate more of them.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's the weakest of all of the episodes --which is not to say I didn't enjoy it -- so I think you'd better.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Second weakest. Skip S01e02 altogether Veg.
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 01:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
you're not the boss of me
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 01:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://youtu.be/yrDVSxNycKc
Trailer thingy for CBS' own Sherlock Holmes series, Elementary. Looks like a rather generic police procedural with a 'quirky' lead character - a la Monk - to me.
If I want a Yank Sherlock I'll watch House, I think.
― DavidM, Friday, 18 May 2012 09:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
― dethklok piccalo (c sharp major), Friday, 18 May 2012 11:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
What is it with America casting short arse Sherlocks. Johnny Lee Miller isn't Robert Downy short but he's hardly tall and striking. (one of the reasons that Cumberbatch makes a good Sherlock)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 18 May 2012 11:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
what is it with american television and british film actors of the 90s
― thomp, Friday, 18 May 2012 11:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
i keep walking past an HMV window with big boardwalk empire and mildred pierce displays with winslet and mcdonald and thinking, just, huh
― thomp, Friday, 18 May 2012 11:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Johnny Lee Miller isn't Robert Downy short but he's hardly tall and striking. (one of the reasons that Cumberbatch makes a good Sherlock)
I really don't think Cumberbatch is all that much taller than Miller, it's probably due to the costume choices. Miller is dressed like an overgrown teenager.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 18 May 2012 12:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
idgi
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― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 16 August 2012 22:07 (9 months ago) Permalink