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

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Bartlet is indeed, an emotionally manipulative dick. Are you going to be watching the whole series or just the Sorkin years?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm going to watch through to the end. I liked the whole Santos storyline, and Alan Alda was brilliant. There's just the dreadful barrier of season 5 to get through first.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I find a lot of the Alda-campaign episodes sloggy, and while Season Five is wildly out of character (with Leo taking on all of Bartlet's emotional manipulation with even less of the charm), I at least get a charge out of seeing how twisted out of shape the characters become.

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.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It'll be interesting to see that storyline again with everything so fresh in my memory: I'm sure I appreciated them so much chiefly because it was such an improvement on S5. I agree a Vinick spin-off would have been great and, in my imagination, Ainsley is there.

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.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

A lot of the politics are really dated for me now, especially as they decide pretty early on in that series that it is an AU and thus 9/11 doesn't happen. Wells just makes that trend worse with series finales where shit like "Bartlet solves Israel-Palestine single-handedly" happens.

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.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

You're right about the politics seeming dated. I was surprised to realise - from this watching - how much of the show was made during the Bush administration, and post 9-11. If you'd asked, I would have thought 'Isaac and Ishmael' was at least a season later.