Sherlock

The bad: the stupid words for text messages that appear mid-screen, but even worse randomly for things that aren't text messages, after they've established it is for text messages. The stupid 'memorised the streets in his head' editing, and finally they beat you around the head with the 'reveal' in a ridiculous montage, just AFTER anyone with half a brain has cottoned on. The plot wasn't exactly great either, just an excuse for setting stuff up really.

The good: The cast, most of the dialogue, the humour, some of the direction

Verdict - not a suitable alternative investment of time compared to continuing to watch really good TV (mostly US shows)
 
Generally very good, some of the direction was very British, like making sure the plot was obvious to even the most simple minds. Then again some of the sequences were also surprising, BBC had some cash to splash clearly.

I liked the on-screen annotations, seen this pop up in quite a few recent films (ie. Cherrybomb).

Overall, worthy of a good mention.
 
Thoroughly enjoyed this although i really didnt expect to.

Sometimes a modern twist is the right way to go, and i felt that it seemed appropriate to do so with this, it garners more interest than a period production would have in my opinion.

I am looking forward to watching the next couple.
 
zootfloot said:
Thoroughly enjoyed this although i really didnt expect to.

Sometimes a modern twist is the right way to go, and i felt that it seemed appropriate to do so with this, it garners more interest than a period production would have in my opinion.

I am looking forward to watching the next couple.
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They really had to go with a modern setting, a period production would have to be absolutely outstanding to even compare to the Brett series. I also suspect a period setting would be much more expensive to film.
 
I was apprehensive about this but it turned out to be passable. It was humorous in places and the interpretation of Holmes and Watson’s characters was quite good. The annotations were silly as was the sequence with the cabby and Holmes.

I see I’m not the only one to have recognised Mycroft immediately. Its watchable Sunday night nonsense and I’ll see it through to the end. The great shame is that the BBC didn’t make it into a period piece as their experience of that kind of production is second to none. I presume it wasn’t done because it wouldn’t be trendy enough.
 
I enjoyed watching this lastnight! Loved the way holmes acted made me laugh in a few places. Shall watch again! a shame there are old 2 episodes left
 
Really enjoyed that i thought. It felt like it was a combination of the writing/style of Doctor Who and House, which given the obvious connections, isn't suprising.

Looking forward to the next episode :).
 
Washed just over half of the show.

And with the thought in my mind that Conan Doyle set the books in the late 1800's to early 1900's (iirc) then seeing these characters with laptops, phones, cars and stuff it just felt really weird..
The actor playing Holmes just didn't bring anything to the show for me unlike Brett did. Hell they even called him Sherlock when in the books its Holmes and everyone called John, Dr Watson.

My first thought was "He's young...Holmes wasn't young"

I could go and and on. Maybe if I hadn't seen so many episodes of the Brett and Burke/Hardwicke version I would have enjoyed it more.
Won't bother watching the other 2 episodes
 
I'm on the fence - I've always believed that sherlock holmes is timeless and more about a certain type of style and substance than a set period in time.

The similiarities to the likes of the new doctor who series, robin hood, etc. turn me off but there are some genuine good bits... but then you get bits where your thinking "lestrade would never do/say something like that", etc.
 
oli356 said:
My first thought was "He's young...Holmes wasn't young"
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In the books, Holmes was around 25 when he first met Watson and around 60 in the final story which is set around the eve of the first world war (stories span some 35 years), some of Sundays story followed the initial meeting reasonably closely.
 
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melchy said:
In the books, Holmes was around 25 when he first met Watson and around 60 in the final story which is set around the eve of the first world war (stories span some 35 years), some of Sundays story followed the initial meeting reasonably closely.
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Wow, never new that it went on for such a long time and they met so young. Though i've only read the stories from the adventures and it goes onto memoirs and then the case books so.

Simi said:
/Dusts off Jeremy Brett dvd's

I'm going to watch a real Sherlock show
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Always makes me laughs when he goes "HA!" and well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2npPQEE9vOk great!
 
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