The BBC's Moriarty just didn't seem like the mysterious head of a vast criminal ring.
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'Out Of Gas'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
Ginger - Oct 29, 2012 7:58:44 pm PDT #9351 of 11831
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
billytea - Oct 29, 2012 8:04:56 pm PDT #9352 of 11831
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The BBC's Moriarty just didn't seem like the mysterious head of a vast criminal ring.
No, but he did seem like the mysterious head of a Reddit subforum, so there's that.
P.M. Marc - Oct 29, 2012 8:17:07 pm PDT #9353 of 11831
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
ACD Moriarty was 90% Asspull, 8% Flebotinum, and 2% Retcon.
He's only slightly more fleshed-out in the canon than Adler. And that's the 2% Retcon doing that.
No, but he did seem like the mysterious head of a Reddit subforum, so there's that.
And there wasn't even coffee to go on my monitor... damn!
Zenkitty - Oct 29, 2012 8:19:28 pm PDT #9354 of 11831
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Although I hated BBC's nutcase Moriarty, I can see the BBC show as a twisted alternate-universe version of the canon. I can't see that in Elementary. It's just another show about a special detective with amazing insight. I thought I'd be able to watch it on its own merits, without comparing it to BBC, but I couldn't watch without comparing it to canon, because it IS still supposed to be Sherlock Holmes. When Holmes said, "Sometimes I hate it when I'm right," I had to go. There's no version of Holmes who would say that. I didn't like Liu's Watson either; I couldn't see any damn reason she'd stay and put up with him.
Typo Boy - Oct 29, 2012 9:22:42 pm PDT #9355 of 11831
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Fascination with his abilities. Something that gets her out of rut she really does not like.
§ ita § - Oct 30, 2012 5:24:58 am PDT #9356 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Joan would stay with Holmes because she's a professional, and he's not done anything to not deserve the professional care she specifically can provide. It's not like she chose to get paid for that because she'd have a lot of time to sit around braiding each other's hair and discussing mash notes.
Leaving the professional aside--she's clearly fond of him, so I have no idea why she wouldn't stay, why she wouldn't put up with him.
I think of all the things, a hired Watson is the thing I look sideways at the most. I don't mind the relationship at all--I quite like it, actually. I like the show. But I don't get what line they were drawing from the text to here.
And I remain unseeing of the line from the text to BBC's Moriarty. I did a text search after he started spouting his bullshit and pretending to be a quailing normal, and the position he was putting Sherlock in....and I had no idea what they were talking about.
P.M. Marc - Oct 30, 2012 6:35:42 am PDT #9357 of 11831
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think of all the things, a hired Watson is the thing I look sideways at the most. I don't mind the relationship at all--I quite like it, actually. I like the show. But I don't get what line they were drawing from the text to here.
Yeah, this is where I'm at.
Connie Neil - Oct 30, 2012 6:36:25 am PDT #9358 of 11831
brillig
Plus she's being paid to.
edit: I'm quite eager to find out about Holmes' dad and if they're going to work Mycroft into this. I'm sorry some aren't enjoying this, but I've always enjoyed reinterpretations of Holmes. Heck, some of the BBC Holmes is quite fun, it's just a couple of elements that put me off.
sj - Oct 30, 2012 6:38:31 am PDT #9359 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I think of all the things, a hired Watson is the thing I look sideways at the most. I don't mind the relationship at all--I quite like it, actually. I like the show. But I don't get what line they were drawing from the text to here.
I wish she was more obviously fascinated with him and his abilities.
Connie Neil - Oct 30, 2012 6:41:30 am PDT #9360 of 11831
brillig
wish she was more obviously fascinated with him and his abilities.
There was a heck of a tell at the end of the last episode. Holmes had commented that she put her hair back, which she only did when there was a man around she found attractive, because she thinks she looks best that way. At the very end of the episode, she put her hair back, and Holmes kind of blinked at it.