"Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department," said Holmes, with a smile.
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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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!
Also - Planet of the Dead? Sucked. I probably should give it a second go. Way to force feed us the non-existant ST. Whatever, pfft. What a waste of Michelle Ryan's devastatingly enviable figure. The stingrays (in all their awful CGIness - seriously? That's the best the FX department could do? Bwahahaha) kind of freaked me out though... but that's because stingrays freak me out and FOLLOW ME WHENEVER I SWIM AT THE BEACH. Seriously. I exude something that Stingrays obviously find irresistible because they swim after me, lovestruck, and simply will not leave me alone. Ohshit - maybe I'm cthulhuspawn?
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Dare I say I know how they feel? Hence this conversation going back and forth all afternoon like a tennis rally and my 2000 word contribution to next week's proceedings languishing unwritten in the dusty corners of my brain. Must... unplug... modem!
Right after I finish this comment :).
Anyway, yes on the Green/Forbes pairing, but I still think we need to make room for Clive in there somewhere. Perhaps he could be Moriarty, or Mycroft, since I don't think he has it in him to play the bad guy.
I'd take the Gillian rumours with a lifetime supply of salt if I were you. Fandom fantasy come true, yes. Sensible idea, no. She's too short to play a bitch queen like the Rani (hell, I'm three inches taller than her!) and, despite being born on British soil, she can't do an English accent to save herself.
Did you get the first new Ashes to Ashes of the year? I grabbed it in about an hour and a half (hurrah for proper broadband speed at long last) but still haven't watched it and probably won't until I have enough eps to fill a DVD. Expect much ranting in about three weeks' time.
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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?
And no, no A2A for me yet - I haven't been keeping up with anything recently. I think going cold turkey on SPN has left me kind of shell-shocked. But I'll do a trawl in a minute for some links - I'll try and hold out for three weeks too - simultaneous squee is always so much more fun!
And now, if you'll excuse me, me and my bitch of a migrane must go back to bed and ogle Michelle Forbes try and get some sleep. How's your insomnia going, by the way?
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