the bbc sherlock series by the dr who 'bloke' and starring tim from the office

everybody otm about the second ep tho

even the ciphering is tedious

loved the open on the attacking guy in the turban tho that subsequently gets dropped

Slight nagging irritation that they insist getting black cabs everywhere despite living directly above a minicab firm. Despite money worries suspect background trust fund.

for martin freeman fans....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umBqBH1RM_8

OK so the new one for series 2, SPOILERS OMG SPOILERS ahead:

So is Moff like "I'm being clever, details be damned" or is there more to Mycroft saying that he was extra careful examining her corpse despite it being, yanno, not her corpse?

consider the significance of mycroft's next line, directly after saying he was thorough, this time.

lol whoops big oversight on my part.

the scene between sherlock and mycroft in the morgue after identifying her body (the first time) was one of the all-time great holiday TV moments. for me.

Loved this, although thoroughly dismayed at some of my favourite stories (Greek Interpreter, Naval Treaty, Speckled Band) being discarded as in-jokes therefore won't be made.

Not much compensation but they're fleshed out a bit here:

http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/

that is a bit better than the fake sherlock one, at least

this was really pretty good, i thought. ever-increasing bait-and-switch-and-switch-and-switch-and-switch. it seems strange to me that there are british television shows where things happen every minute or two, rather than one or two things happening in an episode, at depth.

so so so so so much fun. sacrificing an evening's essential study was totally worth it.

does anybody know where i can watch this online?

I just webmailed you

Best thing on telly over the whole Christmas period. Absolutely loved it.

otm. wish they hadn't kept referring to her "camera phone" though.

Really enjoyed this, better than last year's and hilarious throughout. The beheading reveal was lame though.

Was the beheading reveal bit an actual memory or a Sherlock fantasy moment?

i even liked that. that kind of setup - we're in That Middle East, there are sinister looking arabic types with swords, possibly muezzin wailing - is a horrible televisual cliché and tends to be telegraphing the idea that dark, serious things are happening; for two seconds i thought they actually were going to go there (which would have been aaaaaaaawful) and then it turns out to be for the sake of a gag, so well done them

xpost i had that thought but if it's a fantasy he's not established as having any other reason to know she was/n't beheaded, so

also it sets up that sherlock definitely knows mycroft is enlisting john to lie to him. (that stuff in this episode that sort of shifts into the idea that sherlock's family/friends are in the position of dealing with a mentally ill person is really smart, i think. -- in terms of convincingly modernizing the given material of the original without rewriting it.)

also part of why i like this -- the scene where they're waiting in buckingham palace really brought this home -- is that cumberbatch and freeman are sort of playing peter cook and dudley moore, too

I enjoyed it, but found all the "look at me, I'm writing a blog!/ hey guys just Tweet me @sherlockholmes" stuff to be a bit overdone. I think Cumberbatch is a bit of a ham too. Freeman and Gatiss are both good, though.

I enjoyed it - but it's definitely made for the attention deficit disorder generation.

I loved this unreservedly.

i've seen the first 2 minutes of this, which was enough to remind me how little i care for the dude playing moriarty.

Oh yeah, I forgot about him! Which probably speaks to how slight and badly miscast he is.

oh noes it's scary Ant from Ant 'n Dec!

he might be a good actor in another situation but he was just so obviously at sea, and overcompensating by doing the whackadoo sub-joker loud-quiet madman schtick we've all seen 10 million times

i totally plant to watch, though

uh, plan

If it makes you feel any better he is hardly in the episode after those first two minutes.

yay!

I enjoyed it - but it's definitely made for the attention deficit disorder generation.

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lol old man, u old

I almost literally cannot wait until Sunday when the do Hound of the Baskervilles. I am wishing the days away.

I like Moriarty! I really like his protean capriciousness. Malice born of boredom, a similar boredom to Holmes. Thought this was unreservedly excellent. Oh, and quite clearly Speedy isn't a cab firm as i stupidly said upthread. I meant to wander up the street where they film it to have a look at whether it is definitely an irl cafe. But didn't. I think it is. How tremendously exciting.

The cafe in Google streetview looks real enough.

Try again: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=gower+street&hl=en&ll=51.526221,-0.136664&spn=0.009105,0.019119&num=100&hnear=Gower+St&gl=uk&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=0&layer=c&cbll=51.526288,-0.136743&panoid=PxvoCwy-erhpK_1yyUQCpA&cbp=12,254.82,,0,3.79

It does indeed. Although that link seemed to take me to the other side of Gower Street. (xpost) ah yes, there it is.

I didn't really mind the beheading bit, or the sort of equivalent scene in the second episode of season one, where SH is fighting with a rather out-of-time desert clad swordsman, although both jarred. But I find the slight touch of the penny dreadful or comic book quite appealing ultimately i think.

I missed this because I was away for the New Year. Does anyone know if the Beeb going to do a repeat on BBC 3 (or something) sometime this week or do I have to watch it on iPlayer?

BBC3, Saturday, 7pm.

I thought this was great. Surprised how much I like Martin Freeman in particular.

I think Cumberbatch is a bit of a ham too.

oh noes!

lol at the implication that Gatiss isn't, tho

A lot of next week's Hound of the Baskervilles was filmed in and around my friend's pub.

xp yeah, fair enough, difficult to play Holmes without being at least a little bit hammy I suppose. For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjKXFBkNE10

:D aw, that's great

Brett's the man for doing the dissipated Holmes, but he is also surprisingly convincing (and funny) as the tough guy.

I wish Mrs Hudson was my landlady. It would be brilliant.

Lot of criticism of Moffat for turning Adler into a sexist cliche, which I have to say I agree with; she should be every bit as unemotional as Holmes and thus unlikely to fall for him and be found out that way. Also, she shouldn't need Moriarty as a 'boss' or Holmes as a saviour; she's meant to be ruthlessly self-sufficient. The dominatrix thing I thought was a little cheap but ultimately didn't mind as such.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/03/sherlock-sexist-steven-moffat
http://stavvers.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/irene-adler-how-to-butcher-a-brilliant-woman-character/

The Guardian piece was cringe inducingly awful, because anyone who thinks that Who is more sexist now than under RTD is more than a little deluded.

I mean, there are parts of the Irene Adler crit I can agree with but when an article is started on such a boldly false assertion I can't take it seriously.