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

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If only I could find one I liked.

I got confused and thought Moriarty was the Rupert Graves-replacing copper from the second episode. And was like, "Why is he talking about his underwear?". Anyway.

Thought this was very entertaining indeed, although mugging Jim Carrey Moriarty was almost a last-minute shark jumping moment. Did they resolve how the four cases were connected, or was it just Moriarty fucking around?

What a bloody awful thread title.

I didn't mind Moriarty really. The way his character was built up and up and kept mysterious that his eventual reveal was always going to be a bit of a slight let down.

Though you know you're getting old when Holmes and Moriarty start looking young.

i never made the sherlock holmes / dr who connection before

You're kidding

I liked his mutable, squirming accent, good take on it I thought.

You're kidding

i'm not!!

Moriarty reminded me of some weird cross between Paul McCartney and Sam Rockwell.

couldn't make heads or tails of his accent for a while, until it seemed like it settled down on 'irish' of some kind?

The actor's from Dublin, so, yeah, 'Irish'.

Moriarty reminded me of some weird cross between Paul McCartney

Ha, he played McCartney in the recent awful Lennon Naked, with former Dr Who Chris Eccleston. It's all connected...

Huh. Weird.

LOL, he was quite convincing as Macca in that

What a bloody awful thread title.

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I read one, it didn’t have anything about Sherlock in it.

Wished they hadn’t done a Moriarty reveal so early, but liked him having already popped up and pranked Holmes, and v much liked the shifting accent making him harder for Holmes to deduce anything from.

NPR coverage:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130572175

PBS is airing this on the 24th on "Mystery!".

This is the first thing on PBS "Masterpiece" that I've enjoyed in ages.

PBS cuts out like 5-10 minutes from each one though, which is pretty lame.

i enjoyed this a lot more than i thought i would, considering the granada/jeremy brett series is probably my favorite tv show ever.

I feel like these could suffer to lose five minutes! maybe less so the first episode. It'd depend if it was general tightening-up or if it was just whole scenes gone, though.

Now that this has been on PBS, my mom told me that she has a crush on Benedict Cumberbatch. File that under information I really did not need to know.

watched the first two episodes of this over the weekend. it's pretty fun (and looks cool, lots of interesting camera angles - is this common for bbc series?) but i was groaning when the first episode went into princess bride "battle of wits" territory.

I've only watched epsiode 1 (excellent!), consensus on other Holmes thread seems to be 2 is a bit rubbish. Can I skip it and still understand 3?

Confirming that the 2nd ep is not as good as the 1st. Have not seen the 3rd but it is avail online for free viewing as I understand.

3rd is wonderful, you can skip the 2nd; it's not bad but it does feel very conventional tv mystery show.

concur

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All you really need to know from ep 2:

Watson gets a girlfriend

'M', as mentioned in ep 1, is behind the baddies in ep 2 too

Oh and:

Chinesers have alternate numbering system for markets (which I have never seen before and I'm learning the freaken language).

The guy playing Holmes too much of an obnoxious twerp for my liking. Maybe living up to his name (Benedict Cumberbatch).

lmfao Cumberbatch

It means loads of something e.g. 'oh hai I has baked a cumberbatch of doughnuts, would you like a doughnut'

TamTam: y but been busy

Boo, Cliffhanger! 3 not as good as 1. I quite like the portrayal of Moriarty (reminds me of Simm's Master), though his various schemes make bugger all sense.

Wonder how Freeman getting Hobbited up will affect series 2.

The two episodes I've watched have the best use of London locations I've seen for ages. It feels like they actually take place in the city I live in, unlike a lot of things set here.

Also: the planetarium fight was amazing.

is nu-moriarty still a professor?

can forgive the nicotine patches but anorexic mycroft is over the line!

Decision to go with 90-minute films such a good idea.

In the original Study in Scarlet 'Rache' actually IS the German word for revenge!

I'm pretty sure "rache" is also German for "revenge" in real life too.

no, what's meant is that it's the other way round in conan doyle: the cop suggests dude was trying to spell rachel and holmes has a good laugh at him before revealing it's german for revenge.

only got to second ep of this because although b.c. was good, the writing was mostly awful

idk if it's a drama exactly

How was the writing awful?

the mystery in ep two was just bad, boring, not good, pretty much like any brit detective show but with a better-than-usual protag

Episode two was the weakest of the three by far.

I've only watched epsiode 1 (excellent!), consensus on other Holmes thread seems to be 2 is a bit rubbish. Can I skip it and still understand 3?

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Confirming that the 2nd ep is not as good as the 1st. Have not seen the 3rd but it is avail online for free viewing as I understand.

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3rd is wonderful, you can skip the 2nd; it's not bad but it does feel very conventional tv mystery show.

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concur

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Oh, I agree - if they had only released the first and third it would have been perfect.

See, I really liked two, I must be the only one - London being interpretable through signs and symbols, the Sax Rohmer nods, erm, some other stuff I liked at the time but now can't remember. It did meander I guess, and was the weakest of the three, but I still really enjoyed it.

It wasn't bad, but it was like an album track that didn't belong on a 3-track EP.

aight i'll watch three then

It wasn't bad, but it was like an album track that didn't belong on a 3-track EP.

Yep, that sounds right.

i thought the third was pretty weak tbh

me too, couldn't get through it