Sherlock

[altariel]

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.

Comments

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Yes, I really liked it. I keep reading about other people who didn't enjoy it, but I haven't seen anything but positive comment on my f-list.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I've only seen a couple of negative comments too. I thought it was very entertaining, well-performed and directed, with plenty to enjoy if you already know the stories, and plenty to send you to the stories if you didn't know them already.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

My daughter has just been reading the Sherlock canon, and she was delighted by the number of in-jokes.

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.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

How brilliant to be reading and watching them at the same time. (I'm just finishing a reread of them too.)

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.