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Post by M is for Morphine on Feb 28, 2012 20:47:24 GMT -5
I loved both the movies and the recent BBC version. Honestly I thought Stephen Fry was the perfect Mycroft. XD
Anyone else remember the delightfully terribad cartoon? Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century?
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Post by Komori on May 6, 2012 19:53:39 GMT -5
Hey any US peeps who don't have BBC! Season 2 of Sherlock is playing tonight on PBS!  It's in the TV listings as "Masterpiece Mystery." |
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Post by ♥ Azzie on May 6, 2012 21:30:08 GMT -5
That was awesome. XD So delightfully awkward and funny and intelligent. It's so nice to finally see it for myself.
Also? I loved how much stuff was open for interpretation! And also I was absolutely furious with Mycroft for basically the entire episode. Except the parts where I was amused because he's such a ham. Brilliant episode. ^_^
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Post by Draco on May 6, 2012 23:25:14 GMT -5
That was awesome. XD So delightfully awkward and funny and intelligent. It's so nice to finally see it for myself.
Also? I loved how much stuff was open for interpretation! And also I was absolutely furious with Mycroft for basically the entire episode. Except the parts where I was amused because he's such a ham. Brilliant episode. ^_^
Oh Sherlock, how you amuse me XD |
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Post by Komori on May 7, 2012 16:11:56 GMT -5
Omg SHER-locked. <3 For me, that was one of those moments I don't think I could've guessed, but soon as it was revealed, it was "Oh, of COURSE!!"
Those moments are so rare in your typical crime drama that it just makes them in Sherlock that much more precious. X3
I also loved that boomerang mini-mystery.
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Post by M is for Morphine on May 22, 2012 7:58:02 GMT -5
I just watched Hounds of Baskerville, and I noticed something cute:
Part of the update to make the original story more modern was the idea that a dog that had been experimented on by the government escaped into the wilds. That's also the plot to The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams. The rabbit's name was Bluebell, who was a character in another Richard Adams book, Watership Down. Put them together and they seem to make a very nice homage.
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Post by Zylaa on May 22, 2012 12:56:17 GMT -5
Ooooh, Teow, that's awesome! I can't believe I didn't notice that, Watership Down is one of my favorite books. I do hope it was a homage.
I wish I'd remembered to DVR the first two episodes. Alas. I caught Reichenbach Sunday night, though.
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Post by Draco on May 22, 2012 16:27:31 GMT -5
hmm, I missed Sunday's episode >.< For some reason in my head I thought it was on a hour later....
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Post by Komori on Aug 9, 2012 22:43:38 GMT -5
www.cbs.com/shows/elementary/*DOES NOT LIKE* I'm sorry, but I'm totally against the idea of making Dr Watson a woman. First of all, it just seem like a ridiculous gimmick. "Look at us, we're so not-sexist that we're turning this two-guy duo into a man-woman duo! Look how progressive we are!" But judging from the trailers, they've taken out anything interesting you could possibly instill in Watson, so the character's just a complaining stick in the mud. Only Watson's now a woman, so she gets to play the role of the nag. :/ Oh yeah, that's really progressive. No wait, it's obnoxious. Also, I think it's too much of a stretch to take Sherlock out of both England AND his time-period. That's two additional gimmicks. So, if we're keeping score here, this show is trying to entice people with a three-pronged gimmick about Sherlock Holmes. And yes, the "modern day Holmes" is indeed a gimmick used in the BBC series, but with great success. And I've seen an interview with Moffat that explained why they were doing that: Sherlock Holmes existed in the present. That is, the character lived in the same time period that Doyle lived. So it was never written AS a period piece, it's just a piece that's really old. So Moffat was trying to create a Sherlock Holmes story that existed within the period that its audience was living, much like Doyle did. I appreciate that explanation, but I can't help but feel like the "modern day" part in Elementary isn't the same reason. Rawr rawr grumble grumble.
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Post by Draco on Aug 9, 2012 23:03:14 GMT -5
The whole idea of the show seemed like a bad idea back when it was first brought up.
I remember hearing they went to England and asked if they could make a American version of Sherlock. They said no. CBS of course went, "To bad, we are!"
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Post by Usikustars on Aug 14, 2012 18:21:42 GMT -5
Ugh, yes, I agree with both of you. I'm trying to keep an open mind about it, but from what I've seen from the trailer, eeeeeeaaaahhhhno.
However, the show will not have Sherlock and Watson in a romantic relationship. I think it was at Comic Con where they said that they only would be friends, like in the original story.
Thank goodness.
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Post by Draco on Oct 3, 2012 17:42:40 GMT -5
Just going to leave this here |
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Post by ♥ Azzie on Oct 3, 2012 17:49:40 GMT -5
Pffft. XDD
I actually didn't hate Elementary when I watched it. It wasn't awful. But to me it did feel just like another generic gimmicky crime action show. It wasn't extraordinary to me (though my standards may have been too high; Sherlock is just brilliant and it was hard not to compare them.)
Also I was giggling because the actor playing Sherlock Holmes looks, to me, rather like BBC's Moriarty.
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It's in the TV listings as "Masterpiece Mystery."
