BBC Holmes Adaptation
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jumperfucker1. 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.
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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.
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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Modern Sherlock
Date: 2011-06-01 08:02 pm (UTC)The part I'm stuck on is what's his contribution to detecting going to be? When ACD wrote him, forensics was in its infancy, so Holmes was doing something few others were doing or could do. Now his methods and skills have gone far in advance of what was available in ACD's time. And we have many more consultants of all types working routinely with the police - profilers and whatnot.
So how will Holmes be original? What can he contribute that doesn't already exist in modern policing, when they can access information and experts instantly and globally via the internet? What can one man add that is unique, true to Sherlock Holmes, and doesn't just make the police look incompetent? That's my concern about the new adaptation.
Re: Modern Sherlock
Date: 2011-06-01 11:00 pm (UTC)Well, he was really good at that in canon. :D But you're right, it was mostly because they didn't use the same techniques he was using. And nowadays they all do. If they still look incompetent, with all their labs and technology, it's going to kind of tick me off.
Re: Modern Sherlock
Date: 2011-06-01 11:45 pm (UTC)That would be terrible.
Re: Modern Sherlock
Date: 2011-06-02 12:19 am (UTC)Well, that's just it - then he's not Sherlock Holmes, he's some other character. There are plenty of those about already.
He's still got to make observations, and then make his deductions; but what's he going to observe that the police overlook? Perhaps he can draw conclusions from seemingly unrelated facts that the police don't connect? But wouldn't that make the police look stupid? I dunno. Wait and see...
Re: Modern Sherlock
Date: 2011-06-02 12:23 am (UTC)I guess as long as we don't have any dinosaurs showing up, it can't possibly be the worst adaptation ever made.
Re: Modern Sherlock
Date: 2011-06-02 12:40 am (UTC)Sorry, I'm not up on all my Holmeses :-)
Re: Modern Sherlock
Date: 2011-06-02 12:43 am (UTC)The only Holmes adaptation I wasn't able to finish.
Re: Modern Sherlock
Date: 2011-06-02 03:22 am (UTC)Re: Modern Sherlock
Date: 2011-10-19 07:45 am (UTC)Just fyi
*is scarred for life*