rambling thoughts about the new Sherlock episode
I never saw any of the first season, except for about five minutes once, of which I vaguely remember a taxi driver and a great deal of intense staring. I quite liked this one, but I found Sherlock himself to be very irritating. You get these characters sometimes whom, while it's clear that in real life it would be horrible to know them, one is clearly supposed to find funny and charming as a fictional character, but I don't think that really worked, for me at least. He just came across as incredibly, totally unnecessarily obnoxious, and with characters like that I always just spend the whole time thinking for fuck's sake, would it kill you to have some common courtesy.
Martin Freeman was cool, as always. Benedict Cumberbatch is a good actor, but Freeman has this kind of charisma, in my opinion; he just comes across as very likeable in a low-key sort of way. I also really liked Mycroft, although I don't know the name of the actor. I have a strange attraction to that kind of very exaggerated British accent. It's also the kind that British characters have on American TV shows. I say 'strange' because I am actually half English, and have spent my whole life in the UK, and have a British accent myself, although it's not as cool as American TV shows seem to think. If we all really sounded that awesome we would still have the Empire.
In other news, I feel terrible. All my friends are on Facebook complaining about their hangovers, while I'm not actually feeling hungover at all, I just have a cold. It's been coming on for a few days, but I think the celebrations and lack of sleep last night gave it the opportunity it was waiting for to finally trample my poor, weakened immune system. I have this strange feeling kind of behind my eyes which isn't actually painful but makes me want to claw my own face off. Then again, I suppose I should be grateful that I don't have a hangover.
Martin Freeman was cool, as always. Benedict Cumberbatch is a good actor, but Freeman has this kind of charisma, in my opinion; he just comes across as very likeable in a low-key sort of way. I also really liked Mycroft, although I don't know the name of the actor. I have a strange attraction to that kind of very exaggerated British accent. It's also the kind that British characters have on American TV shows. I say 'strange' because I am actually half English, and have spent my whole life in the UK, and have a British accent myself, although it's not as cool as American TV shows seem to think. If we all really sounded that awesome we would still have the Empire.
In other news, I feel terrible. All my friends are on Facebook complaining about their hangovers, while I'm not actually feeling hungover at all, I just have a cold. It's been coming on for a few days, but I think the celebrations and lack of sleep last night gave it the opportunity it was waiting for to finally trample my poor, weakened immune system. I have this strange feeling kind of behind my eyes which isn't actually painful but makes me want to claw my own face off. Then again, I suppose I should be grateful that I don't have a hangover.