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Sherlock
Sherlock was brilliant. Why has nobody thought of doing that with text messages before? Inspired. I love how the set at 221B Baker Street looks like a thirties refit of the set from the Granada series.
Only false note for me (and it was a very slight false note, barely a semi-tone) was the too-whimsical Mycroft, who seemed to have stepped out of an episode of The Avengers. But otherwise - yes, more of that, thank you very much. I request that telly be like this more of the time, otherwise I'll have to go back to my West Wing uber-mega-marathon.
Upon which subject: Jed Bartlet is such an arse.
Only false note for me (and it was a very slight false note, barely a semi-tone) was the too-whimsical Mycroft, who seemed to have stepped out of an episode of The Avengers. But otherwise - yes, more of that, thank you very much. I request that telly be like this more of the time, otherwise I'll have to go back to my West Wing uber-mega-marathon.
Upon which subject: Jed Bartlet is such an arse.
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I thought Moffat did much better in this one than in his Jekyll and Hyde. I also liked the way they dealt with the potential-UST issue in a sensible modern way.
Actually, must blog about this myself.
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Jekyll was a mess, IMHO. It seemed to me that someone, halfway through, realised that the script was saying, "My creativity would reach the levels of genius if it were not for the women around me!" - which they then tried to turn round, but didn't have time to do properly.
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Still, I very much look forwards to future episodes not written by Stephen Moffat.
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So we went on to the method, and a giant build-up as to how it was done, but in the end, with a wave of the magic want, dismissed as pure luck and Holmes saved by GPS and an illegal handgun.
In the 30s, that would have got the writers drummed out of the Detective writers club (I forget what it was called) as cheating.
Furthermore, the whole of the way Holmes detected in canon is now part of the mainstream. You can watch The Mentalist doing the observation thing (and better than it was done last night) every week. Holmes was the first 'scientific detective' but scientific detection is now also part of the mainstream and there is nothing he can do that isn't done every week on CSI.
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For me, it stalled at the point where Holmes was listing all the points which applied to a taxi driver, while about eight black cabs drove aimlessly around in the street behind him. I'm really not sure what they were trying to achieve -- if they wanted the audience to feel smarter than Holmes, that seems like a misguided thing to do when you're trying to establish the character as a genius.
So we went on to the method, and a giant build-up as to how it was done, but in the end, with a wave of the magic want, dismissed as pure luck and Holmes saved by GPS and an illegal handgun.
It was a very poor ending.
The worst part of the plotting, though, I thought, was the ridiculous set-up with the mobile phone. Let's suppose that you think you've been kidnapped by someone who's going to kill you. Do you:
a) Hide your mobile phone in his taxi, trusting that at some point between then and your horrible death you will be able to leave an extremely obscure clue which will allow the police to track your phone by GPS, and catch the person who is about to kill you, or,
b) PHONE BLOODY 999 AND GET HELP!
That was just lazy, slipshod writing, really. It was like someone had read the Holmes stories, but didn't really understand how they worked. I'm hoping that Mark Gatiss will be able to make a better fist of it. His Lucifer Box stories suggest be might.
Furthermore, the whole of the way Holmes detected in canon is now part of the mainstream.
That's an excellent point. I think a really good, fun Holmes pastiche is still be a workable concept, though, but it can't afford to be lazy about the plot.
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Like the giant build-up during an entire season in "Supernatural" for the final confrontation between Michael!Dean and Lucifer!Sam and then... Adam taking Dean's place.
You can watch The Mentalist doing the observation thing (and better than it was done last night) every week. Holmes was the first 'scientific detective' but scientific detection is now also part of the mainstream and there is nothing he can do that isn't done every week on CSI.
Both, true.
Still, I enjoyed watching it! I found clever and innovative the text messages popping up. I loved the music. Their banter just before Holmes introduced himself to Watson made me happy, same as Rupert Graves' presence (which is actually the main reason I watched "Sherlock"! I'm weird that way! :P).
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I was quite pleased when I saw the cabbie was Phil Davis... but I think the problem was that they were quite pleased he was Phil Davis, too, and kept the final scene between him and Sherlock running longer than it should have done.
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I was so relieved that Mycroft was only Mycroft (unless that's a twist) that I didn't mind very much. I have a bugbear about one-or-two-off characters becoming ubiquitous in fanfiction* (eg Avalon); it may seem inconsistent when my rare excursions into fanfic have a bias to one-off characters, but I like to see them not interacting with regulars (ie a story about Avalon and her own gang would be fine).
It may also be inconsistent to be happy about Mycroft being Mycroft, but I don't think he's been over-used in the way that Moriarty and Adler have.
* Which this clearly is.
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Though, I think a Vinick spinoff would have been good. They had a good cast assembled for his staff.
I applaud you for doing the whole thing, though.
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It's no difficulty for me watching lots of WW episodes, they're very more-ish. I only really started last week and I'm already halfway through season 3. I imagine I'll slow down soon.
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It makes it tough for me to even watch the Santos episodes because he's so clearly an Obama-analogue without the surrounding history that made Obama an appealing candidate in the first place.
I'm eager to see what you make of it now.
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