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.

Sort of like that mouse and the biscuit

If you invite a cons_detective over for lunch, he'll want to look through the contents of your DVR.

If he looks through the contents of your DVR, he'll want to watch Doctor Who.

If you let him watch Doctor Who, he'll want to start from the beginning of the most recent series.

If you watch the most recent series from the beginning, he'll want to set up camp on your sofa.

If you let him set up camp on your sofa, you'll soon find it covered in laptop and various other computer parts.

If you let him put his laptop and various other computer parts all over the place, he'll assume that it's his area and eventually fall asleep there.

If you let him fall asleep on your sofa, he'll expect tea and breakfast in the morning.

If you serve him tea and breakfast he'll want to look through the contents of your DVR*...


This is how I came home from work to find a certain cons_detective still in my flat. Not that I mind. It's just not exactly the sort of thing that happens every day. I don't know what he spent all day doing, but I found him asleep on the sofa in the exact same position I found him when I got up this morning. I think that's all he does is draw and sleep.


*I think he actually went through my DVDs while I was gone. That, or he put them all on the floor for no good reason, which also sounds very likely.