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altarielSherlock 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.
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.
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Date: 2010-07-26 03:16 pm (UTC)For me, it stalled at the point where Holmes was listing all the points which applied to a taxi driver, while about eight black cabs drove aimlessly around in the street behind him. I'm really not sure what they were trying to achieve -- if they wanted the audience to feel smarter than Holmes, that seems like a misguided thing to do when you're trying to establish the character as a genius.
So we went on to the method, and a giant build-up as to how it was done, but in the end, with a wave of the magic want, dismissed as pure luck and Holmes saved by GPS and an illegal handgun.
It was a very poor ending.
The worst part of the plotting, though, I thought, was the ridiculous set-up with the mobile phone. Let's suppose that you think you've been kidnapped by someone who's going to kill you. Do you:
a) Hide your mobile phone in his taxi, trusting that at some point between then and your horrible death you will be able to leave an extremely obscure clue which will allow the police to track your phone by GPS, and catch the person who is about to kill you, or,
b) PHONE BLOODY 999 AND GET HELP!
That was just lazy, slipshod writing, really. It was like someone had read the Holmes stories, but didn't really understand how they worked. I'm hoping that Mark Gatiss will be able to make a better fist of it. His Lucifer Box stories suggest be might.
Furthermore, the whole of the way Holmes detected in canon is now part of the mainstream.
That's an excellent point. I think a really good, fun Holmes pastiche is still be a workable concept, though, but it can't afford to be lazy about the plot.