'Sherlock'

[athenegenia]

So I watched the first episode of the new BBC 'Sherlock' series yesterday.

Comments

[hobbit_eyes]

I really liked it! I liked how they took various ideas from A Study in Scarlet but then made it very much their own story. I liked Holmes and Watson, and I definitely get the sense that Watson's going to get more to do next time round. I liked the takes on both characters, with Holmes's high-functioning sociopath ways and that Watson is definitely BOOK Watson, not bumbling idiot Watson that most TV adaptations have taken to this point. And Gatiss's Mycroft was amazing, I too was utterly taken in to believe it was Moriarty, but it makes so much sense when it's revealed

[kisobel]

I've just watched this on iplayer. I agree with most of what you've said (including staying true to the Jeremy Brett version of Sherlock!) I don't think they have cleaned it up too much though - they foreshadowed Holmes having a drug addiction in the drugs bust bit in the flat, where Holmes said he was clean but couldn't make the same assurance for his flat - which suggested to me that he was a reformed addict who still kept a fix squirrelled away in case he needed it. So we may get more of that in the next episodes. And I thought the nicotine patches were a really funny take on the '3 pipe problem' concept from the books.

I don't think we will get anything more solid on the Holmes and Watson romantic relationship, I think the writer is enjoying all the nudge-nudging too much!