My First True Love is Bubbles?

[bec_87rb]

Ladies...

Benedict Cumberbatch is kind of spindly, but he mumbles math nonsense in a sexy way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ImmHGiSDqc

Comments

[chhinnamasta]

So, what did you think of Sherlock? I assume you've seen it?

[bec_87rb]

I even bought the DVD and watched the extra stuff that goes along with that. A friend of mine was very taken with it and had recommended it.

Did you see it/them, as there were three 90 minute movies?

Did you see it/them, as there were three 90 minute movies?

[chhinnamasta]

Yes! We enjoyed them. A second season is underway, apparently. Hooray!

I enjoyed the way technology was presented, and integrated with the narrative. Initially, I wasn't sure about Cumberbatch as Holmes, but I warmed to him in the end. OTOH, I thought Martin Freeman was a great Watson to Cumberbatch's Holmes. How is The Last Enemy? Should I watch that, too?

Re: Did you see it/them, as there were three 90 minute movies?

[bec_87rb]

It is just terrible, if it's the thing I remember watching on PBS. Wait, I'll see if the final episode is up; that'll tell me if it's the same awful thing.... and it is.

Okay, the Last Enemy is a luddite melodrama about the RL problem of growing government surveillence. Starts out badly written and cardboard, ends with a supervillian twirling her mustaches. I have to admit, it kept me watching several years ago when it hit American tv. So, 5 out of 10 for PBS.

Also, thank you youtube for telling me who Cumberbatch is? You can find him playing Van Gogh, Stephen Hawking, Sherlock Holmes, a snotty rich young officer in To The Ends of the Earth, then some blankster like the guy in the Last Enemy. He's a blank? A character actor? I thought he was a leading man, because he looks blank to me, as leading men tend to do, but he looks like a blank, I think, because he is one. An unformed presence upon which to stamp a character.

My First True Love is Bubbles?

[chhinnamasta]

BTW, when I read the title, this was what I saw:

Re: My First True Love is Bubbles?

[bec_87rb]

Oh, hee - that's the fellow from the great change heist movie! Bubbles is the cat, do I remember that right?

Re: My First True Love is Bubbles?

[chhinnamasta]

That m'dear is Bubbles from The Trailer Park Boys.

Re: My First True Love is Bubbles?

[bec_87rb]

Trailer Park Boys! They had a Big Plan to steal the Guess the Change Globe! Bunch of guys from Newfoundland? Yes?

[suegypt]

Kyoot!

A Cumberbatch!

[chhinnamasta]

This is kind of random, but when I first glimpsed Cumberbatch, I wasn't paying enough attention and it scanned as Bandersnatch. Which reminds me of this gem at Prelinger on Dispute Resolution (the whole video has that old school charm, but the relevant discussion on Bandersnatches begins around 4:30).

Re: A Cumberbatch!

[bec_87rb]

Beware the Juju bird and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!

(Hitting your little brother and taking his toys is one of the joys of childhood. That's fun. If we are honest, and remember our childhoods.)

Who Shall Drinketh First from the Fountain???

[suegypt]

I thought of the Bandersnatch, too! Then the JubJub Bird, who was his Watson, I believe.

Re: Who Shall Drinketh First from the Fountain???

[bec_87rb]

...or the kool-aid - a lady fan of Mr. Cumberbatch is a Cumberbitch. No, really.

[dog_on_fire]

It's a long lost visitor from the TMBG boards! You're talking about Benedict Cumberbatch so I just had to comment.

He played Hugh Laurie's son in a bizarre television show called Fortysomething. Since then, I have become convinced that he what it would look like if Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard ever had a child.

He also stars in a radio comedy called Cabin Pressure which should be listened to because 1) it's very silly and something I wish we had more of over here and 2) Roger Allam's voice is one of the most wonderful sounds in the world.

He's an interesting actor with a fantastic name but his fangirls are some of the scariest people on the Internet.

[bec_87rb]

Scarier than TMBG fans?