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altariel ([personal profile] altariel) wrote2010-07-26 10:24 am
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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.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2010-07-26 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes there was a bit of lull about halfway through. What was the Princess Bride scene?
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[identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com 2010-07-26 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Having to choose between two drinks knowing one of them is poisoned. (http://honesthypocrite.blogspot.com/2006/07/game-theory-and-princess-bride.html)

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.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2010-07-26 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha, I'd forgotten that bit!
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[personal profile] manna 2010-07-26 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I was so sad that it didn't end up with Holmes having spent years building up an immunity to iocaine powder.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2010-07-26 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
:-)