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selenak

Sherlock (pilot for new show)

Jul 26, 2010 17:28

Aka, Stephen "The Moff" Moffat and Mark "I'm not sure I'm over your awful Jolly Churchill and the iDaleks episode yet, Mister!" Gattis created a modern day Sherlock Holmes series which has just debuted. So far, so good, and I like the pilot far more than the pilot for Moffat's last Victorian-tale-put-in-the-present show, Jekyll. So, a few ( Read more... )

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likeadeuce July 26 2010, 16:21:29 UTC

Dunno if we'll ever get it here, but sounds nice. I hadn't realized reading about this show before that it was actually set in the present.

I've always thought Martin Freeman and Simm looked alike (I used to get them confused) so it could be a coincidence, but not a bad one. And yes to Rupert Graves.

selenak July 26 2010, 17:10:39 UTC

I'll keep watching unless the next episodes put me off, and will try to keep you updated. So far I think you'd like it.

vaznetti July 26 2010, 21:12:55 UTC

It was a "Mystery" co-production, so I think it will turn up on PBS some day. It worked surprisingly well.

bwinter July 26 2010, 16:40:19 UTC

It's so clever, isn't it? In good ways :)

selenak July 26 2010, 17:11:17 UTC

True.

kalypso_v July 26 2010, 16:49:30 UTC

Golly, I've never thought of Cumberbatch (sic) as pretty! I'd have put him right there in the odd-but-interesting-face category. (Rupert Graves, on the other hand...)

Damnit, I'm going to have to come up with an icon for this, aren't I? I will probably think of one just as everyone stops talking about it. I've had to fall back on Eve Best's Hedda Gabler, on the grounds that five years ago I saw Cumberbatch opposite her as what I described as "an unusually sweet Tesman, and definitely not entirely ridiculous".

PS My understanding is that there was a pilot, a 60-minute episode, which may be released as an extra on the DVDs, but they scrapped it and decided to go for three 90-minute episodes instead. I'm not clear how much overlap between this version and the pilot there was; the story implies that they effectively started filming again from scratch. (Accounts of this here and here, add pinch of salt to taste.)

selenak July 26 2010, 17:14:22 UTC

Not!pilot: Huh, interesting, I hadn't heard about that. Thanks for the links.

I'll just use my AtAs icons, on vague "British show, deals with solving crimes" grounds. :)

kalypso_v July 28 2010, 00:39:43 UTC

I came up with one. Maybe Benedict is prettier than I think.

ponygirl2000 July 26 2010, 17:15:00 UTC

I thought it was delightful! I did think the final showdown was a bit underwhelming, but everything leading up to it was enough fun that I could overlook the rather limp villain (also a bit meh on Mycroft so far, he's supposed to be the real genius of the family after all, not just a very well-informed official). I really liked how they used modern technology, and yes, the "three patch problem" had me laughing. They seemed to be creating strong base for the friendship - both adrenaline addicts, and Holmes is clearly so used to people deriding him that Watson's open admiration makes him more than just someone for Holmes to talk to. I do hope Watson's PTSD isn't considered "cured" after a foot chase and a bit of insight, I definitely want to see them get into it with some greater depth.

From certain angles Cumberpatch (seriously, that's his real name?) reminded me of a very young Neil Gaiman - it's the hair and the black coat. A really mean sociopathic Neil Gaiman.

kalypso_v July 26 2010, 17:41:29 UTC

Cumberbatch.

He presumably chose the name from somewhere as his (actor) parents' surnames are Carlton and Ventham - unless of course his father really was called Cumberbatch and dropped it for professional purposes (actually, looking at Wikipedia that seems to be the correct explanation).

skywaterblue July 28 2010, 05:16:54 UTC

I swear you and I are brain twins. I watched it and halfway through I realized the part I want Cumberpatch to play:

Dream of the Endless.

He's perfect for it.

selenak July 28 2010, 05:33:00 UTC

....You're completely right about that.

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kattahj July 26 2010, 18:26:36 UTC

I really, really had fun with this, in an inarticulate way. Glad to see someone could articulate it!

but later uses it as part of his argument that she had to be good in planning and scheduling. :)

Hee! I didn't think of this while I watched the ep, but that's a joke he used in Press Gang, in the dream-future episode where Sarah's war correspondence boyfriends keep getting arrested. Sullivan reassures Lynda that they'll all be released and that Sarah always was very good at scheduling the news team work hours...