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

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I think trying to stick to at least part of the plot of A Study in Scarlet was a mistake. It's a weak plot as Doyle goes, and they had to drop the Mormon connection as not being PC. In order to make this Sherlock as extraordinary as he was in his own time, they are going to have to predict, as Doyle did in some stories, the methods that will be used in the future.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

It's so many years since I read A Study in Scarlet that I don't think I remember anything but the Mormon connection, and a vague image of people struggling across a desert. I just had to look at a synopsis to see what they'd lifted.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I know. Funnily enough, all I remembered of it myself was the Mormon historical thing (which is boring enough to etch itself into granite) and the meeting in the lab. However, once it was pointed out to me that they were actually using bits of the plot, I went to look it up too.