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

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I did like the text messages nearly all the time; I thought the triple use in the first instance was over-egging it (twice would have worked better).

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.