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tardis_stowawaySignificantly after most of the Internet, I have finally seen the first episode of BBC's Sherlock. Yep, I see why everybody has been squeeing about it. What a fun adaptation! Some points about it:
-I thought the casting on the leads was stellar, and I don't say that only because Benedict Cumberbatch is ridiculously gorgeous. Martin Freeman is so dead-on as Watson.
-Moffat's work on Doctor Who shows through in his Sherlock. Clearly Doctor Who has been influenced by Holmes for decades, but I think there is some influence flowing the other way in this adaptation. I kept expecting Holmes to starting flinging around "stupid apes" as an insult.
-When Sherlock informed Watson that he considered himself married to his work, my instantaneous thought was Holmes/Holmes's work/Watson OT3! *sigh* This is my brain on fandom. Watson does seem to have quite the crush on the work. Currently, however, I can go either way for seeing the interactions between Holmes and Watson as potentially shippy or simply true bromance. (This is in contrast to the Robert Downey Jr. version, where they are clearly married in all but legality.)
-I did find it a little stupid that the show laid out the notion that the killer was a cabbie quite clearly for the audience and then had Sherlock take forever to figure it out. Oh show, my desire to feel smart is not so large that I want you to make your genius main character look slow in order to pump up my ego.
-In the confrontation with the cabbie, my brain was so busy shouting out lines from The Princess Bride that I was distracted from the dialog that was actually going on. I kept muttering at the screen "has no one in this show seen The Princess Bride?" They never did tell us which pill had poison, did they? That means that I am free to believe that they BOTH contain poison for which the cabbie has spent considerable time building immunity. Next up: Sherlock Holmes and the Land War in Asia. Oh, wait, Watson's got that covered already.
-The orange shock blanket scene was so adorable. I want to draw big orange hearts around it.
-I quite liked the way they handled all the texting with the words popping up onscreen. I get tired of all the cuts to phone displays that we see in a lot of shows with mobile phones involved in the plot.
-In summary: not flawless, but this adaptation gets my enthusiastic thumbs up.
And now for something completely different: this uber-creepy Weeping Angels vid is amazing!
-I thought the casting on the leads was stellar, and I don't say that only because Benedict Cumberbatch is ridiculously gorgeous. Martin Freeman is so dead-on as Watson.
-Moffat's work on Doctor Who shows through in his Sherlock. Clearly Doctor Who has been influenced by Holmes for decades, but I think there is some influence flowing the other way in this adaptation. I kept expecting Holmes to starting flinging around "stupid apes" as an insult.
-When Sherlock informed Watson that he considered himself married to his work, my instantaneous thought was Holmes/Holmes's work/Watson OT3! *sigh* This is my brain on fandom. Watson does seem to have quite the crush on the work. Currently, however, I can go either way for seeing the interactions between Holmes and Watson as potentially shippy or simply true bromance. (This is in contrast to the Robert Downey Jr. version, where they are clearly married in all but legality.)
-I did find it a little stupid that the show laid out the notion that the killer was a cabbie quite clearly for the audience and then had Sherlock take forever to figure it out. Oh show, my desire to feel smart is not so large that I want you to make your genius main character look slow in order to pump up my ego.
-In the confrontation with the cabbie, my brain was so busy shouting out lines from The Princess Bride that I was distracted from the dialog that was actually going on. I kept muttering at the screen "has no one in this show seen The Princess Bride?" They never did tell us which pill had poison, did they? That means that I am free to believe that they BOTH contain poison for which the cabbie has spent considerable time building immunity. Next up: Sherlock Holmes and the Land War in Asia. Oh, wait, Watson's got that covered already.
-The orange shock blanket scene was so adorable. I want to draw big orange hearts around it.
-I quite liked the way they handled all the texting with the words popping up onscreen. I get tired of all the cuts to phone displays that we see in a lot of shows with mobile phones involved in the plot.
-In summary: not flawless, but this adaptation gets my enthusiastic thumbs up.
And now for something completely different: this uber-creepy Weeping Angels vid is amazing!
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Date: 2010-08-10 10:26 pm (UTC)*uses her blanket icon*
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Date: 2010-08-11 07:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-11 09:10 am (UTC)I hate you so much right now. *was about to go to bed*
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Date: 2010-08-11 07:26 pm (UTC)Hope you got some sleep eventually.
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Date: 2010-08-12 04:11 am (UTC)