speaking of sherlock holmes, did anyone watch the new series of it on the bbc last week? i thought it was pretty good.
Yeah, I liked it!
I kind of expected to hate it, and I didnt like the text notations of clues and, well, texts and stuff, but it had enough redeeming features that I enjoyed it.
I liked it too (a rare agreement with Mark! :lol: ).
I wasn't at all sure about the modernisation aspect, and Benedict Cumberbatch, good though he is, seemed kind of an "obvious" choice as Holmes. But I really liked Martin Freeman's performance - he's amusing, but not at all in the buffoonish Nigel Bruce "I say Holmes, what the Dickens, eh?" mould. His Watson seems like a man with real character who actually brings something to the partnership. Good work! :)
Now let's hope they can maintain the standard, and it doesn't turn out to be yet another series which bores me after two weeks...
The planets align! (I agree with all your assesments too). I thought that freeman made a great straight man to cumberbatch, and it still gave him a grounded realism to contrast holmes and keep him useful, so its already set up that they need each other, and I thought it did so without being too contrived. Its a really good pairing.
I was worried when cumberbatch first came on because I thought he was too young and clean cut for holmes on initial impression, and suspected the portrayal was going to be goofily modernised alongside the changed time setting, but he carried the lofty, bored intellectual looking for stimulation well (and I think added a dimension of dubious morality, if any morality, that I dont recall being so prominent in the character, and again, doing it well). I was pleased with it.
