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.

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[vasiliki.livejournal.com]

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.

Like the giant build-up during an entire season in "Supernatural" for the final confrontation between Michael!Dean and Lucifer!Sam and then... Adam taking Dean's place.

You can watch The Mentalist doing the observation thing (and better than it was done last night) every week. Holmes was the first 'scientific detective' but scientific detection is now also part of the mainstream and there is nothing he can do that isn't done every week on CSI.

Both, true.
Still, I enjoyed watching it! I found clever and innovative the text messages popping up. I loved the music. Their banter just before Holmes introduced himself to Watson made me happy, same as Rupert Graves' presence (which is actually the main reason I watched "Sherlock"! I'm weird that way! :P).

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think they are going to find it very difficult to keep finding riffs on Holmes canon to make jokes about.