The Adventure of the Illegal BBC Adoration
One holiday season many years ago I worked at Barnes & Noble, happily ringing up book sales and spreading goodwill towards men. As part of our bookseller orientation we were to find our favorite book in the store and then sell it to the other trainees i.e. why this is a great book everyone should read. I grabbed a big ass hardcover version of "
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Everything you said, I enthusiastically second. Was very disappointed by the RDJ movie :( Actually, that's not entirely accurate. I'd expected it to be loathsome and unwatchable, and only went so see it because a.) it was Sherlock Holmes b.) was supposed to be slashy... I saw loads of subtext and fairly liked RDJ's Holmes (but omg yeah that plot failed) tho I could never join in the squeeing over Jude Law's Watson. I may in fact hate his hostile Watson :( So I was starting to think we'd never see a definitive adaptation again, what with Hollywood getting in the way.
Then the BBC series comes along and blows *everything* out of the water. This, I can't help think, is as close to Sherlock Holmes as we've ever been. Cumberbatch clicked with me quicker & more thoroughly than *any* other Holmes portrayal. It's everything the movie wasn't, in fact, I think it's done so well because it is as fresh and modern and compelling as the original stories. Watching Sherlock, I think, must be like how the Victorians felt reading SCAN in The Strand for the first time :D
Wonderful post, btw. You sum up how all us American SH lovers are feeling right about now. and I will shut up already, since my long comment is indeed long.
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