007; It's premiere season!

[always_a_queen]

I love premiere season! I love checking out new shows and saying hello again to old ones. I'm tickled pink that Fringe comes back tonight.

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[aim2misbhave]

I tried watching Last Resort, and meh... I had hoped they'd be sneaking around in the submarine for a while, but that obviously wasn't going to happen, and then I had hoped that they'd end up completely stranded on an uninhabited island a la Lost, and that didn't even happen, and then there was just too much political/personal drama back in the USA going on to hold my interest. IDK, maybe it's a good show, but the content just isn't what I expected or what's interesting to me.

Elementary... I found it much more like the ACD stories than the BBC miniseries - Sherlock's drug use (he used both opium and cocaine quite liberally in the original), Captain Gregson, the beekeeping thing, and I think the Holmes/Watson dynamic was a little more like the original writings and a little less of the "Turn the homoeroticism up to 11" that we've seen in the more famous recent incarnations, especially the Guy Ritchie movies. Especially the beekeeping thing, as a fan of the originals that really made me smile :-)

I was a little disappointed they went with the "disgraced surgeon" thing instead of a returning Army medic for Watson, and I was kind of disappointed that Fox wasn't the one to do it first because no matter how short-lived or poorly written their shows are, they are all so very pretty, and they're the only channel I feel could've matched the cinematography of the original.

I'm not surprised or baffled at all, though. Sherlock Holmes has always been a popular property, both much more faithful (Guy Ritchie) and much looser (House, The Mentalist) interpretations of him than in Elementary have played well with American audiences, and there's no royalties to pay. I wouldn't even be surprised if we saw at least a few more orders for modernized Sherlock Holmes pilots come January, because it is public domain.

I think that Lucy Liu and JLM have the potential for some really great chemistry, though.