A Modern Sherlock Holmes That Actually Works

[MajGenl.Meade]

My goodness, how you people love your soapies.

But on more substantive matters, what's all this about a Dr Who special at Christmas?

[oldr_n_wsr]

The Who's are all down in Whoville awaiting Santa. I presume there is a Dr Who in that town.

[Daisy]

My goodness, how you people love your soapies.

But on more substantive matters, what's all this about a Dr Who special at Christmas?

Trenzalore, Matt Smith regenerating into Malcolm "Fucking" Tucker, daleks, cyber men and a Turkey that needs cooking! I am as giddy with anticipation for this as I was for the 50th anniversary show.

[Gob]

[Gob]

Oh man, "The Empty hearse" keeps up the standard!!

Lots of lovely nods to the canon, huge amounts of humour, and the expected quality of writing and acting.

Don't miss it. Watsons expressions of joy when he is reunited with Holmes are tearjerkers indeed.

[Daisy]

Watched the empty hearse yesterday but was too tired to watch last nights episode. We will catch that later today.

Loved it. The scene with the old man in the surgery was brilliant

[Gob]

Watched "The Sign of Three" last night, it was very good. But I hope they reign in the humour a bit, and go back to a more "dark" series soon.

[Daisy]

Just watched Sign of Three, yes it was humour heavy, but still very much Sherlock.

I think the next ep is going to be dark the creepy glasses bloke from the end of The Empty Hearse is revealed.

[Lord Jim]

I'd ask if we could please go easy on spoilers in this discussion, as the series doesn't start airing here till Jan. 19th...

[Gob]

Nor here

[Sean]

I watched The Empty Hearse a couple of nights ago and have The Sign of Three lined up for tonight. I'm happy with it so far...


*Spoiler Alert! Do not read the rest of this post LJ.*




Sherlock isn't dead!

Made you look!

[Gob]

London Mayor Boris Johnson has laughed off an apparent joke at his expense on the BBC show Sherlock, saying it is "perfectly acceptable for people to satirise politicians".

In the latest episode of the hit detective series, a mock newspaper headline stated the Thames was to become a "watery highway".

The story quoted the "current mayor" as backing the scheme, shouting "Huzzah".

Mr Johnson told LBC Radio 97.3 people were "entitled to make fun" of him.

The BBC said the mayor and newspaper mentioned in the show were "entirely fictional".

Conservative Mr Johnson, who supports building a new airport in the Thames estuary, seemed to be the butt of a joke on Sherlock on Sunday, according to the Daily Telegraph.

A newspaper page, flashed on screen at the start of the show, included an article saying that plans to turn part of the Thames into a motorway came after other "bizarre concepts", including a "recently mocked concept of putting an airport in the middle of the estuary".

[Guinevere]

Sherlock AND Downton Abbey at the same time. TV Heaven!!

[Gob]

Around 10pm on Sunday night, Sherlock fans may be feeling a combination of elated and melancholic. Elated because the concluding episode of series three is very good, melancholic because – just 11 days after it returned – it’s all over again.

So here’s some good news: Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have already plotted out two more series of the detective drama – and Moffat reckons it’s their best stuff yet.

“Rather excitingly, Mark and I, for no particular reason, we just got out of the rain and sat at the top of the [Sherlock] production bus… and we just started plotting out what we could do in the future,” Moffat told the audience at tonight's Bafta screening of the season three finale His Last Vow.

“And we plotted out the whole of series four and five.”

“So we have got plans – but our plans don’t tend to be ‘Let’s blow up the world or cast the most famous person in the world’ they tend to be ‘What exciting twists and turns can we add to this?’ And I think we’ve got some crackers!

“The ideas we had that day, I thought were the best we’ve ever had.”

And after you watch the series three finale on Sunday, you’ll know that’s setting the bar pretty high…

[Gob]

Just watched "His last Vow," (spoilers) by buggery it's good!

[MajGenl.Meade]

It may be the best modern Sherlock - it hasn't even come here yet (SA) - but I'm willing to bet that Lucy Liu still has the absolutely best legs in TV. Or in the world for that matter. She's in "Elegmentary" of course.

[Gob]

They'd make a lovely scarf.

[RayThom]

... if Mr. Green's untimely encounter with the London omnibus, and subsequent demise, was orchestrated by Bates. Once again, it appears Bates got away with murder. I sure hope Season VI unravels all these intriguing mysteries. Regardless, Downton Abbey is still one of the best programmes on the telly.

[Lord Jim]

Okay, we've now watched all three episodes of the latest instalment...


Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD...









Well first of all, I had no problem with the fact that this mini-series was somewhat campier than the earlier sets...I found a lot of that hysterical...(like the bit in the first episode where they were cross cutting between Holmes explaining what happened and Watson performing the proctology exam...)

My favorite episode was the second with The Wedding...

I particularly liked the bit where Holmes was interviewing the potential wedding usher while laying out how he knew the guy was fixated on the bride...

Which culminated in my favorite exchange of the series:

Potential Wedding Usher: "You're a pyschopath..."

Holmes: "Actually, I'm a high functioning sociopath who knows where you live.."

Followed by Holmes giving a broad cheesy smile...

(A smile which Cumberbatch employed repeatedly throughout the series)

I enjoyed the humor and playfulness..

(But then I'm not a "faithful to the cannon" snob, like somebody I know... )

The first two sets of episodes were really the placing of classic Sherlock Holmes stories in a modern setting...

This one was not....It was much broader...

I suspect there's a reason for this...

My suspicion is that just as Johnny Lee Miller's Elementary would not have made it to the screen had it not been for Cumberbatch's Sherlock...the writers of Sherlock are now being influnced by the success of Elementary...

So to Strop our "faithful to the cannon" purists, I ask:

You didn't like a wealthy father being introduced to the story and saw that as a violation of faithfulness to the stories...

How do you feel about the introduction of two comical middle class geezers as Holmes' parents?....

You didn't like a female Watson....

How about a Watson who marries a woman, (carrying his child) who turns out to be a Ninja clad East European proffesional assassin?

Don't recall reading anything about that in the original stories....

(Or perhaps that one is based on the little known Conan Doyle story, The Case Of Watson's Peculiar Wife...)

Now personally I enjoyed all of that, but I imagine a Purist would be appalled...

So I'd be interested in your reaction....

[Gob]

Appalled!!but highly entertained