"Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department," said Holmes, with a smile.

[letheron]

Oh my, now, the great Sherlock Holmes was one of my very first literary crushes, way back in the day when I used to carry around a red leather bound edition of his exploits - all butterfly-wing thin paper and tiny cramped print, it smelt like tobacco and old dusty libraries, and thudded shut most satisfactorily with a lovely dull thud (like a heavy

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[wrathchild]

Just because this topic provides an excellent distraction from what I'm supposed to be doing with my afternoon, do you think Clive Owen (eyesight permitting) would make a good Watson?

Also, it seems pertinent to mention that I would be eternally grateful to anyone who can find me a copy of this here Baskervilles adaptation, for obvious reasons.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174399/

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[letheron]

Hmm... maybe. I actually think he'd be a better Watson. Owen is just too... charismatic. I mean, he draws too much attention to himself - not in a showy way - but he's magnetic, even I can see that, despite the fact that I sometimes feel like the only female on the planet who *isn't* in love with him.
If they do another bloody Baskerville adaptation maybe he could play Jack Stapleton?

Throwing names around... for Watson or Holmes: Tom Ward? Robert Carlisle? James McAvoy? JJ Feild?

And yes! That version must be found and devoured! Speaking of devoured... what did you think of 'Planet of the Dead'?

[wrathchild]

I was thinking more Clive Owen as Watson and Robson (whose middle name should really be Upon) Green as Holmes, but I dread the Pandora's Box such a pairing would open among the respective female followings of the actors in question.

Tom Ward is superb Watson material, but I struggle to think of a Holmes that would suit him. Robbie Coltrane's all I've got for moment, and that's unlikely at best.

Planet of the Dead improved mightily on its second viewing but, much like the Easter eggs it featured, seemed to be all outer shell with nothing much inside. Tennant did his best with the material on offer and Michelle Ryan was of course lovely, but I've seen much better.

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[letheron]

Bleargh, I did, of course, mean "Owen would make a better Holmes". :/

By George, I think I've got it

[wrathchild]

Clive Owen as Holmes and Jack Davenport as Watson! Stick 'em both in a BBC adaptation of Mr Gaiman's superb Conan Doyle/Lovecraft crossover "A Study In Emerald" and I'd be in hog heaven.

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[letheron]

Jack Davenport as in Jack Davenport? Hurm... maybe? Though now I'm having Ultraviolet flashbacks - lol! Okay: Jack Davenport as Watson and Stephen I'm A FIlthy Hobo Meyer as Holmes!

NOTE:*I AM NOT SERIOUS*

Okay, let's agree on Clive Owen as Holmes, and I agree that Robson (upon-)Green onscreen at the same time would make the screen explode so... Jack Davenport, while sweet, is always going to have too many comic connotations for me, but it could work.

Y'know, there was a lot of speculation about Watson being a woman... we could spread the casting net out to include Rachael Weisz/Susannah Harker/lol...Billie Piper.

Or my favourite pairing of all (and I can copy/paste them into anything: Tom Ward as Holmes and Emilia Fox as Watson. DONE AND DONE. *dusts off hands*

p.s. WTF? GILLIAN ANDERSON IN DOCTOR WHO, WHAAAAT? YES! YES! YES

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[wrathchild]

"they swim after me, lovestruck, and simply will not leave me alone

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[letheron]

D'awwww ♥ And if it makes you feel any better my Nite Owl I/II fic has gone nowhere this afternoon either - for some strange reason I feel you'll find that a *very* comforting thought. :P

Oh, yeah, also - I've done no Honours work either = surprising news is surprising!

Alright, Robson/Michelle! *fistpump* I reckon Clive could do Moriarty - hell, if it's good enough for Vincent D'O, it's good enough for anyone! And he was pretty dark and broody in Sin City anyway, I think he'd be a great bad guy - he has the craggy face for it anyway. Ohohoh! Could Jackei Earle Haley be Moriarty? And Holmes? And Watson?

Gillian did an...okay, yeah, just an okay accent in Bleak House - I think I was too busy being entranced by her black-locked Goth queen styling to pay too much attention to her voice anyway. She could always wear 10 inch vinyl heels and bring her outrageous costumes into the new century though, hmmm

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[letheron]

NO, BY GOLLY, I HAVE IT! REALLY!

ROBSON GREEN AS SHERLOCK.

MICHELLE FORBES AS WATSON!

Y/Y/MFY?

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[letheron]

ETA: OH YEAH!

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[suburbannoir]

*drive by comment*

I must say I have enjoyed watching your progress from Forbes-hate to love. It's because she's stalking us through everything we watch, isn't it?

Forbes!love ♥

[letheron]

WTF YOUR ICON?! Is that from iCarly?

And did I hate Michelle Forbes at some point? Oh the shame! Did I hate her but still think she was totally foxy? I'm sure I did. *Those cheekbones. Unf.* Ohhh - did I hate her in Battlestar because she was beating on my then girlcrush Starbusk before she became Suckbuck?

And yes! She's totally is videostalking us, isn't she?! Now I know how JEH must feel... if he, y'know, knew that I existed.

Re: Forbes!love ♥

[suburbannoir]

Icon: not iCarly. It's Shia Lebouef in cow suit, duh.

Forbes: I think you must've have dislike her, for the aforementioned reasons, and then she appeared in Prison Break, which you were not in favour of. Obviously you were living in denial, we know that now?

(Have you seen Razor yet?)

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[letheron]

Shouldn't he be in a monkey suit? Swinging from the trees? *facepalm*

Ahh yes, Prison Break. And I was *clearly* in denial. Oh, Starbuck, how you let me down - but how you led me to the Good Admiral Cain! *swoon*

(No, I haven't! *tears off to garage to find CD stash* OHMYGODOHMYGOD!!! Forbes in uniform! OMG!YAY!)

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[letheron]

p.s. I may or may not have been lying in bed with my laptop for the last two hours watching the last two eps of True Blood... *whistles innocently*