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PostSubject: BBC Sherlock series   BBC Sherlock series EmptyThu Dec 30, 2010 1:50 pm

Ok, so I consider myself to be a bit of a purist. I can get really mad when the movie version of a novel airily ignores the fact that the hero has blond hair and blue eyes and casts a Latino to play his part. I hate it when people take a book, say, Terry Goodkind's Legend of the Seeker, and turn it into The Legendary Journeys of Richard and Kahlan, and episodic action comedy.

So I was kind of surprised to really like Merlin, which is one big anachronism with sloppy characterization.

And then along came Sherlock, the three movie BBC series about contemporary Sherlock Holmes.

I adore it. The new Sherlock looks like a very white version of Sam from Supernatural and talks like a crossover between ZeroPunctuation (look here if you don't know who I mean) and the last two Doctors from Doctor Who. Not very surprising, since it's directed by Moffat. But DAMN! this new Sherlock rocks! Nothing bad about Jeremy Brett from the old series, but this sleek, arrogant, sociopath-almost-psychopath Sherlock as Benedict Cumberbatch puts him down is about the most amazing thing I've seen first season Dexter.

The Brett Sherlock Holmes was sophisticated, smart, quick, arrogant, disdainful at times but always a gentleman. He was in his early forties, smoked a pipe and used cocaine when bored. He used his eyes, ears and newspapers mainly to reach his conclusions.

The Cumberbatch Sherlock (Sherlock, not Holmes; and he calls Dr. Watson by his first name, too), is in his early thirties and gets his cases mainly through his website: The Science of Deduction. He is, as mentioned, and as he describes himself, a high-functioning sociopath, utterly frustrating, brilliant and insufferable. He is also sexy as hell. He wears tailored clothes and uses multiple nicotine patches as a stimulant--he doesn't smoke. This Sherlock is the kind of man who asks you to hand him his phone, which is in his jacket--while he is wearing that jacket himself. And yet you can still understand why poor John Watson puts up with him.

The old Watsons, until Jude Law, are usually portrayed as somewhat simple chaps, very friendly, barely functional. The new John is, more than anything else, Normal. Ordinary. He's a Good Guy. And he doesn't hesitate to shoot people in the head when his friends are threatened. The new John is mesmerized by Sherlock, dazzled by the man's genius even if Sherlock annoys the hell out of him. He is incredibly likeable, mainly because he isn't a simpleton. he's just an ordinary guy caught up in the life of someone who is more than extraordinary.

And after this little rant of giddy joy, I also present you with my first great findings of Sherlock fic: An Act of Charity, by Wordstrings. Becomes slash fairly quickly, and then to think I wasn't even looking for slash particularly. This is the first story in a wonderful series that leads up to an established and very unhealthy relationship between John and Sherlock, but don't read it for sex, because it's quite short on porn. What makes Wordstrings' fics worth reading, almost required reading, I think, is her description of Sherlock's mental state, and how terribly, horribly sick he is. Really, you don't know who to pity more, Sherlock, for being who he is, or John, for having to live with the man. It's funny and quirky, very, very sick at times, and a nice bit to read, too.

Great stuff, well worth your time.
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PostSubject: Re: BBC Sherlock series   BBC Sherlock series EmptyThu Dec 30, 2010 3:32 pm

I definitely can't wait for the next episodes. You've pretty much summed up everything I love about the show. The modern interpretation and characterisation is brilliant. There are a few little things that annoy me (mostly the pacing difference when it comes to the reveal between the audience and Sherlock figuring it out) but that's minor in comparison to the overall awesomeness of the show. :D
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PostSubject: Re: BBC Sherlock series   BBC Sherlock series EmptyThu Dec 30, 2010 9:10 pm

I am 100% with you on this series love.

I'm also a total purist. I've been a fan of Sherlock Holmes since I was....7, I think, and I read The Speckled Band (it was prolly abridged, but whatever). I've seen every single movie/miniseries/TV show about Sherlock Holmes, own every single story, and have prolly read them ten times over.

Saw the last half-hour of A Case in Pink a week ago, and pirated the other episodes. I'm in love.
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PostSubject: Re: BBC Sherlock series   BBC Sherlock series EmptyThu Dec 30, 2010 9:46 pm

Sherlock is great. The writing is fantastic on its own, but I love how the show is full of tonnes of sneaky references to the original canon. It's got a good balance of seriousness and humour, too. The funny bits are actually genuinely funny - they work really well. The characterisation in the show is really neat because it's so different from your usual portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, but you can still see a strong resemblance to the Sherlock Holmes in the original stories. The fact that he's a sociopath is really neat because a) you can definitely see some of those traits in the original character and b) the fact that he has a diagnosed personality disorder is an especially modern thing and it makes sense that those traits would end up being more emphasised in a modern-day character than a Victorian one. Not to mention all the other little things that are the same as the original character but treated in an obviously modern way - like Sherlock's drug use. It's just all really cleverly done. Awesome series.
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