Filmography
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the_lady_lilySherlock - series one
We missed this because of being in the wrong country, so I am catching up on it via DVD. The first episode has a very different feel to the second two - it's lighter, funnier, more willing to crack laughs at itself. I miss that lightness of touch from the second two episodes, if I'm honest - but I did enjoy the whole series. It's an interesting idea to try and bring the oddities of Sherlock Holmes into the modern era, but I think Benedict Cumberbatch does it very well. The plots, too, are clever - intricate, slightly odd, reliant on enough esoteric knowledge that you may or may not have in your head but Sherlock naturally does.
I also enjoyed the characterisations of Watson, Mycroft and Moriarty. Watson is just the sort of - well, walking wounded in need of constant interest and stimulation post-war experience. Mycroft is fabulous, just fabulous, and I was terribly disappointed when he did not feature in episode two. Moriarty was a great mirror image of Sherlock - the idea of a consulting criminal to confront a consulting detective was underplayed but very clever. Of course, we're in a no major female characters, never mind two major female characters who speak to each other, zone - this is a bit cross-making, if I'm honest, but it's in the standard Steven Moffat problem and I wouldn't have expected him to have wised up to it in what is, essentially, a primeval source for the buddy movie. All in all, a fairly successful attempt to update Sherlock Holmes to the modern era - doesn't try to be more than it can be, and enjoys what it can do as much as one would hope.
We missed this because of being in the wrong country, so I am catching up on it via DVD. The first episode has a very different feel to the second two - it's lighter, funnier, more willing to crack laughs at itself. I miss that lightness of touch from the second two episodes, if I'm honest - but I did enjoy the whole series. It's an interesting idea to try and bring the oddities of Sherlock Holmes into the modern era, but I think Benedict Cumberbatch does it very well. The plots, too, are clever - intricate, slightly odd, reliant on enough esoteric knowledge that you may or may not have in your head but Sherlock naturally does.
I also enjoyed the characterisations of Watson, Mycroft and Moriarty. Watson is just the sort of - well, walking wounded in need of constant interest and stimulation post-war experience. Mycroft is fabulous, just fabulous, and I was terribly disappointed when he did not feature in episode two. Moriarty was a great mirror image of Sherlock - the idea of a consulting criminal to confront a consulting detective was underplayed but very clever. Of course, we're in a no major female characters, never mind two major female characters who speak to each other, zone - this is a bit cross-making, if I'm honest, but it's in the standard Steven Moffat problem and I wouldn't have expected him to have wised up to it in what is, essentially, a primeval source for the buddy movie. All in all, a fairly successful attempt to update Sherlock Holmes to the modern era - doesn't try to be more than it can be, and enjoys what it can do as much as one would hope.
