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.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was great fun. Sherlock Holmes reminded me rather of the 11th Doctor, with his manic enthusiasm and his odd take on things. I suppose that with Steven Moffat involved, that's not surprising. The same goes for the wittiness of the script.

[manna]

I thought it was okay. I loved the first forty-five minutes, and was then terribly bored for half an hour while they faffed around making Sherlock look like an idiot, and did the Princess Bride scene. (Also, and here it reminded me of Luther, whatever happened to show not tell when it comes to your lead character's mental state? There's no need to have the cast expositing all over the place. Trust the audience a little!)

Still, I very much look forwards to future episodes not written by Stephen Moffat.

[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.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

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

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I didn't expect to enjoy it, but I did and found the updating worked.I soon guessed it must be a cab driver, but that didn't spoil it.