Fun With Casting
Happy Leap Day!
Today I spent the morning reading on my Kindle for hours in what turned out to be pointless jury duty, and I spent the afternoon getting a job offer/filling out paperwork/getting tested for drugs! Yay! Hard work is finally paying off. :)
Other things of interest:
-Lucy Liu has been cast as Joan Watson for the pilot of CBS’s Elementary. Well, I was going to watch this show anyway because, seriously, at this point stick “Sherlock” on anything, and I will apparently eat it up. But now I’m actually looking forward to this. I really like Lucy Liu as an actress. And though I can foresee some potential issues, if nothing else, this is a step in the direction of finally having a genderswapped Sherlock. But more than that, the casting has generated a lot of discussion about gender and the difference between epic bromance and the portrayal of a gay relationship. See sarahtales’s post about adaptations for some good discussion. And definitely read greywash’s post about not pre-judging this show until it’s, you know, actually been aired.
-The rumor mill has been churning about a possible casting of Benedict Cumberbatch as the Master for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. While I would absolutely love to see this (and rumor has it that Moffat would as well), and it would make me much more interested in the program than I currently am, it feels a bit too much like wishful thinking/fan casting. So I’m keeping my fingers crossed, but let’s not jump to conclusions.
-Quote I found recently from Steven Moffat comparing the titular characters in his two projects, Doctor Who and Sherlock: “The Doctor is an angel trying to be a man; Sherlock is a man trying to be a god.” Hee, it reminds me of the “you’re on the side of the angels” thing with Moriarty. And basically that is why I adored Sherlock right off the bat but found it harder to initially relate to the Doctor-to me it’s more interesting to see someone attempt something impossible and fail than to see someone who can do the impossible attempt to limit himself. But obviously there are tons of similarities between the characters; I just like darker, more damaged characters more.
-National Theatre Live’s Frankenstein is returning for encore screenings! Which means I can finally see Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Frankenstein and Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature! I was fortunate enough to see the reverse casting last time it came to town, but I suspect I might like Benedict as Frankenstein more because, you know, he’ll have hair. /is shallow
-It looks like (spoiler alert) Moriarty may really be dead so that the show can focus on other villains. But then again, this is from an interview with Moffat, master of trolling, so who really knows?
Today I spent the morning reading on my Kindle for hours in what turned out to be pointless jury duty, and I spent the afternoon getting a job offer/filling out paperwork/getting tested for drugs! Yay! Hard work is finally paying off. :)
Other things of interest:
-Lucy Liu has been cast as Joan Watson for the pilot of CBS’s Elementary. Well, I was going to watch this show anyway because, seriously, at this point stick “Sherlock” on anything, and I will apparently eat it up. But now I’m actually looking forward to this. I really like Lucy Liu as an actress. And though I can foresee some potential issues, if nothing else, this is a step in the direction of finally having a genderswapped Sherlock. But more than that, the casting has generated a lot of discussion about gender and the difference between epic bromance and the portrayal of a gay relationship. See sarahtales’s post about adaptations for some good discussion. And definitely read greywash’s post about not pre-judging this show until it’s, you know, actually been aired.
-The rumor mill has been churning about a possible casting of Benedict Cumberbatch as the Master for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. While I would absolutely love to see this (and rumor has it that Moffat would as well), and it would make me much more interested in the program than I currently am, it feels a bit too much like wishful thinking/fan casting. So I’m keeping my fingers crossed, but let’s not jump to conclusions.
-Quote I found recently from Steven Moffat comparing the titular characters in his two projects, Doctor Who and Sherlock: “The Doctor is an angel trying to be a man; Sherlock is a man trying to be a god.” Hee, it reminds me of the “you’re on the side of the angels” thing with Moriarty. And basically that is why I adored Sherlock right off the bat but found it harder to initially relate to the Doctor-to me it’s more interesting to see someone attempt something impossible and fail than to see someone who can do the impossible attempt to limit himself. But obviously there are tons of similarities between the characters; I just like darker, more damaged characters more.
-National Theatre Live’s Frankenstein is returning for encore screenings! Which means I can finally see Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Frankenstein and Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature! I was fortunate enough to see the reverse casting last time it came to town, but I suspect I might like Benedict as Frankenstein more because, you know, he’ll have hair. /is shallow
-It looks like (spoiler alert) Moriarty may really be dead so that the show can focus on other villains. But then again, this is from an interview with Moffat, master of trolling, so who really knows?