Sherlock 1x01: A Study in Pink
Okay, I see why the new BBC Sherlock show has captured fandom after one episode. It's pretty much slasher bait, isn't it?
I am a-squee. There are very good reasons why I shouldn't be a-squee, namely:
1. The bit where TPTB are flirting with the idea of Holmes and Watson being gay when you absolutely know they will never really do such a thing is a big cheat, and I ought to hate it, and I've hated it in pretty much every fandom that isn't dS (because it did have a happy ending!), and I can't figure out why it isn't bothering me here. It should be.
2. The plot. Oh God of course it was a cabbie, they had that figured out halfway through, they had a chase scene... and they didn't even check anyone but the passenger. Here I had been thinking they grabbed the wrong cab, and I expect better from Sherlock Holmes. We do not do Sherlock Holmes with plots where it is required that the detective be kind of stupid. This does not work, people.
3. The pill thing was never resolved.
lysimache maintains that this is probably another one of those Iocaine Powder setups and they're both poison.
4. Predictable character bingo! Raise your hand if you didn't know the mysterious archenemy was Mycroft! Keep it up if you didn't know Moriarty was the secret sponsor! Yeah. I was half-expecting Irene Adler too.
lysimache thinks it's a wasted opportunity that the police officer who thinks Sherlock is a psychopath (Donovan, right?) is not Inspector Gregson.
Nonetheless, I am a-squee. It is so shiny shiny shiny and I actually liked the floating text-message thing and for some reason I like this way better than last year's movie even though the Moff was clearly heavily inspired by it. Shiny flashy camera work and weird music!
It's a three-patch problem! Heh. I liked how the pocket-watch deductions are now applied to cell phones, and similar.
Plus, I really like the actors -- I think they are especially convincing (way better than RDJ and Jude Law) as Holmes and Watson. Though I think I fail for not remembering until I ImDb'd it that Lestrade was Scudder in Merchant Ivory's Maurice. I thought he looked familiar.
So there. I really ought to dislike it, since it is so much like last year's movie, but I really liked it. Huh.
This Holmes is very Eleven-ish, isn't he? Maybe that's the difference. I liked Eleven. Also this did not have crazy supernatural steampunk.
He does look oddly like Tom Welling with fluffier hair, though.
Ooh. calicokat just pointed out that you can read both the Science of Deduction website and Watson's blog. I enjoy when shows do this sort of thing.
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I am a-squee. There are very good reasons why I shouldn't be a-squee, namely:
1. The bit where TPTB are flirting with the idea of Holmes and Watson being gay when you absolutely know they will never really do such a thing is a big cheat, and I ought to hate it, and I've hated it in pretty much every fandom that isn't dS (because it did have a happy ending!), and I can't figure out why it isn't bothering me here. It should be.
2. The plot. Oh God of course it was a cabbie, they had that figured out halfway through, they had a chase scene... and they didn't even check anyone but the passenger. Here I had been thinking they grabbed the wrong cab, and I expect better from Sherlock Holmes. We do not do Sherlock Holmes with plots where it is required that the detective be kind of stupid. This does not work, people.
3. The pill thing was never resolved.
lysimache maintains that this is probably another one of those Iocaine Powder setups and they're both poison.
4. Predictable character bingo! Raise your hand if you didn't know the mysterious archenemy was Mycroft! Keep it up if you didn't know Moriarty was the secret sponsor! Yeah. I was half-expecting Irene Adler too.
lysimache thinks it's a wasted opportunity that the police officer who thinks Sherlock is a psychopath (Donovan, right?) is not Inspector Gregson.
Nonetheless, I am a-squee. It is so shiny shiny shiny and I actually liked the floating text-message thing and for some reason I like this way better than last year's movie even though the Moff was clearly heavily inspired by it. Shiny flashy camera work and weird music!
It's a three-patch problem! Heh. I liked how the pocket-watch deductions are now applied to cell phones, and similar.
Plus, I really like the actors -- I think they are especially convincing (way better than RDJ and Jude Law) as Holmes and Watson. Though I think I fail for not remembering until I ImDb'd it that Lestrade was Scudder in Merchant Ivory's Maurice. I thought he looked familiar.
So there. I really ought to dislike it, since it is so much like last year's movie, but I really liked it. Huh.
This Holmes is very Eleven-ish, isn't he? Maybe that's the difference. I liked Eleven. Also this did not have crazy supernatural steampunk.
He does look oddly like Tom Welling with fluffier hair, though.
Ooh. calicokat just pointed out that you can read both the Science of Deduction website and Watson's blog. I enjoy when shows do this sort of thing.
Read this entry on Dreamwidth ||
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