So, Sherlock.

[lotesse]

That happened.



Like, too cute for words? But Sherlock is so - pretentious. I get what they were going for with his costuming, but it just made him read as really unlikeable to me. Snobbish instead of nonneurotypical.

I think that ultimately I'm too attached to the period aspects of Holmes as a narrative - the way that it's perched at the edge of policework, psychology, sexual science. In this century? It did not quite get me going. Also, you really can't do plots from The Princess Bride and at like they're still going to be exciting and/or suspenseful.

I did get a good chortle out of the leg/shoulder thing with Watson's wound, but I'm deeply upset about the Magical Vanishing Disability. If you didn't want him disabled, why introduce the cane at all? The psychosomatic thing is both stupid and insulting.

Better luck next week?

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[fyrefly101]

I really enjoyed it. Suitable mental detachment from reality, but without becoming as utterly mindless as reality tv (which I really can't stand). I thought they swung too far on the scale of Watson's limp. From barely being able to get down the stairs, to running the rooftops? That just stretched credability that much too far. Moreover, given his suspicion with Mycroft, I find it hard to see just what the point of him flirting (painfully) with that woman was. It was too jarring.

Not to mention substituting addition for nicotine patches. And the drawing out of the play-off between him and the killer was overblown, as far as I was concerned, to the point of being boring. Possibly because they had done the same kind of killer on CSI: New York.

And yet, I have to say I did sit all the way through it, thoroughly enjoying myself. I have no hesitation to tune in next week. But then, given that most of my energy is going into my thesis at the moment, I probably quite like the fact that I don't have to concentrate too hard on this.