I like Emo Holmes. It makes a nice contrast with the Moffat show.
I like the show Elementary, but it doesn't feel like Sherlock Holmes at all to me.
I like my Holmes like I like my abductions: alien.
Pretty much this.
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Steph L. - Oct 29, 2012 2:03:53 pm PDT #9338 of 11831
I look more rad than Lutheranism
le nubian - Oct 29, 2012 2:06:33 pm PDT #9339 of 11831
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
This thread is completely cracking my shit up.
I think this would be a more compelling show if there was not overt link to SH. Really, it is just The Mentalist with less sociopathy.
Connie Neil - Oct 29, 2012 3:10:54 pm PDT #9340 of 11831
brillig
I quite like them doing their own cases. I like it better than taking the canon and twisting it around. Moffat's Moriarty made me stop watching.
EpicTangent - Oct 29, 2012 3:42:03 pm PDT #9341 of 11831
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I like the show Elementary, but it doesn't feel like Sherlock Holmes at all to me.
This is about where I'm at.
§ ita § - Oct 29, 2012 4:08:25 pm PDT #9342 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does Moffat's Moriarty feel like book Holmes? I'm thinking I must have forgotten way more than I realised, because this guy isn't so much moustache twirling as he is Black Swan twirling. I do not get him, or his fandom, the oohing and ahing of his every twitch, and the manic Mormor shipping (well, okay, now that it's Fassbender, it's kinda okay).
Steph L. - Oct 29, 2012 4:22:44 pm PDT #9343 of 11831
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Moffat's Moriarty made me stop watching.
SO MUCH BAD.
DebetEsse - Oct 29, 2012 4:43:16 pm PDT #9344 of 11831
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I have seriously considered kicking some people off my tumblr reading list because I'm sick of reading the CBS vs. BBC bullshit.
And I continue to have Very Strong Feelings about non-military (or something explicitly parallel) Watson.
sj - Oct 29, 2012 4:46:27 pm PDT #9345 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
And I continue to have Very Strong Feelings about non-military (or something explicitly parallel) Watson.
Me too.
Steph L. - Oct 29, 2012 5:13:17 pm PDT #9346 of 11831
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And I continue to have Very Strong Feelings about non-military (or something explicitly parallel) Watson.
Which is another reason "Elementary" is entertaining, but really not Sherlock Holmes.
They could have called it something else, and I'd still watch it. But if they called it something else, they wouldn't have that hook.
Connie Neil - Oct 29, 2012 5:50:54 pm PDT #9347 of 11831
brillig
to my mind, the BBC Moriarty does not feel like the book Moriarty. Book Moriarty is coldly brilliant and ruthless. He would unhesitatingly remove minions who failed him, but he would not waste energy on mind games and Joker-esque statements.