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BBC Holmes Adaptation

1. Premier date has been announced. June 11th! YAY!

2. It's going to be six episodes long, split into two parts, with the second half starting sometime in November. WTF BBC? Why are you doing this? First Doctor Who and now the Holmes adaptation. What's the point!?

3. I've just learned that one of the League of Gentlemen is a writer. ...Not sure if want. Then again, he writes for Doctor Who on occasion, so maybe it's a good thing. I can't tell. Now all I can think is that Mrs Hudson is going to be in blackface and call everyone Dave.

4. The more I hear about this, the more I can't wait, regardless of the points that make me nervous. I don't necessarily trust Moffat, but I trust his abilities, if that makes sense.

Speaking of Doctor Who,

cons_detective came over yesterday and we got him caught up on the current series. When he gets going on a project, he'll lose entire days, so he tends to miss a lot of stuff. He never seems to know the day or date. That's why his artwork is so amazing though. He'll spend hours on it without realising how long he's spent.

He was doing some drawing last night on his laptop and did a wonderful portrait of Matt Smith. Or the Doctor. They're sort of the same person, really. But go take a look at it. One of these days, I'm going to commission him for something. I just have to decide what. It'll have to wait until later though, because right now, he's taking up my entire sofa and drooling on it. Which he will deny as soon as he reads this post.

Potential spoilers in comments, as always.

... Hello, Dave.

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It's that guy from the office. What's his name? I never really watched it. Not Gervais, but the other one. He was also in that pathetic attempt at a Hitchhiker's Guide film.

I could sort of see modern!Holmes maybe reading blogs or something. They have blogs on everything, ya know. He's bound to find something that interests him.

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of him tracking criminals and finding interesting cases that way. I'm not sure what he'd find on the internet that would let him know what the criminal classes were up to. Craigslist, perhaps. :D

I've never seen The Office. I did see some of the HHGG movie, but I had to quit in disgust. I think it was Zaphod's flipping head that finally got to me. Dear God, they didn't cast Zaphod, did they? And if it were Ford, I'd probably have heard the fandom explosion from this side of the pond. (NO AMERICANS IN MY SHERLOCK HOLMES, THANKS.) Please say it was Arthur. His hair was an alarming shade of unnatural, but otherwise he was refreshingly normal.

Yeah, Arthur. I haven't seen him in much else, so I don't really know if he's any good.

Did you know that Trillian was supposed to be half-alien in that one? WHY?

And yeah. Why was most of the cast American. I mean, nothing against the Americans; they're lovely people. But they didn't even try to British it up.

The Americans have ruined every British property they've got their hands on. Doctor Who, Life on Mars, State of Play, HHGG.

I say this as a ridiculously sentimental flag-waving American, BTW.

I'M SORRY, I WILL TRY TO STOP SPAMMING YOUR JOURNAL NOW.

NO, IT'S OKAY. I'M UP LATE ANYWAY BECAUSE IT'S MY WEEKEND.

And don't even get me started on what you lot did to Life on Mars. *evil eye*

refreshingly normal. I think this is what people look for in a Watson :-)

Well, that and a Mustache of Hotness. :D Let's see how this guy stacks up in that respect...*googles*

Holy crap. This guy? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2007/05/07/images/martin_freeman_int_2.jpg) *stares* I, uh. Yeah. I can get behind that like WHOA. He kinda looks like John Simm, a bit. ETA: Obviously not Blond Crazy John Simm. More like Cal in State of Play.

Edited 2011-06-02 01:21 (UTC)

That's the one!

I think he looks the part for a Watson. Not sure how he'll actually be, though.

Man, I haven't watched State of Play in forever. How many things are we going to see Philip Glenister, John Simm, and Marc Warren appear in together?

Edited 2011-06-02 01:24 (UTC)

At least one more... (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/may/05/john-simm-philip-glenister-mad-dogs)

OK, I LIED ABOUT THE SPAM. SO SHOOT ME.

I heard about that one, but never saw it. I want to, though.

Marc Warren is a fine man.

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