![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
"Sherlock"
Dec. 3rd, 2010 04:57 amI recently finished watching Gatiss & Moffat’s ”Sherlock”, which reinvents You-Know-Who for the 21st Century. Benedict Cumberbatch’s rapid-fire delivery sometimes made it difficult for me to understand what was going on, but I liked the whole thing quite a bit, especially Martin Freeman’s Watson. The one false note was Moriarty, who – to me anyway – was way over the top, so much so that he fell off the roof and into the backyard.
By the way, when Watson first meets Holmes, he is taken aback at having so much of his Past so easily figured out. He asks how Holmes did that. If you and I ran into such a situation, we’d ask if he’s some kind of Sherlock Holmes. Watson’s reaction suggests that, in the show’s Reality, there never was an iconic character who could do what Holmes did. It’d have been interesting if Watson had compared Holmes to Joseph Bell, or to some madeup fictional Great Detective.
By the way, when Watson first meets Holmes, he is taken aback at having so much of his Past so easily figured out. He asks how Holmes did that. If you and I ran into such a situation, we’d ask if he’s some kind of Sherlock Holmes. Watson’s reaction suggests that, in the show’s Reality, there never was an iconic character who could do what Holmes did. It’d have been interesting if Watson had compared Holmes to Joseph Bell, or to some madeup fictional Great Detective.
