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PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
Meryl:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on November 14, 2010, 03:29:32 pm ---Do they not have the episodes on the website to watch? They do on mine.
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It took some searching, but I found them. Thanks! 8)
delalluvia:
Hmmmm...is Sherlock ambiguous after all? :o
On a rewatch I finally caught the meaning of line that didn't really register before.
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In the very awkward cafe scene in Ep 1, Watson is trying to find out if Sherlock has a girlfriend or boyfriend. Sherlock finally decides that Watson is trying to pick him up. He turns him down and then clearly says he's turning him down because he's not looking for anything - not because he's not into men. :o :o
I'm sold on which way Sherlock would go if he ever decided to get with the rest of the human race. ;D
Front-Ranger:
There's also the way he treats Watson's gf Sarah. He clearly thinks of her as superfluous. Until she pointed out a key clue that he had overlooked. After he regained his composure, he looked at her with new respect. Will Sarah be the Hermione of this story? I'd like to be an ingredient in that sandwich! (and not just the man-naise!)
Benedict Cumberbatch is so good at telegraphing when Sherlock realizes he is flawed...i.e. "I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath" LOL!
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: All Pawed Out on November 17, 2010, 07:10:38 pm ---There's also the way he treats Watson's gf Sarah. He clearly thinks of her as superfluous. Until she pointed out a key clue that he had overlooked. After he regained his composure, he looked at her with new respect. Will Sarah be the Hermione of this story? I'd like to be an ingredient in that sandwich! (and not just the man-naise!)
Benedict Cumberbatch is so good at telegraphing when Sherlock realizes he is flawed...i.e. "I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath" LOL!
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Man-naise! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Benedict is extremely good at it, I agree. His Sherlock is very expressive. When Watson first tells Sherlock he's seen his website, Sherlock gets all puffed up, full of pride, waiting for John's reaction. And when Watson's reply is simply a skeptical look, his face just falls.
Or when Lestrade invades his apartment on a drugs bust (is that a UK expression? "Drugs bust", plural? Here in the US it's singular "drug bust") and Watson is scoffing that the police would ever find anything, the look on Sherlock's face is priceless - he's being unmasked and humiliated in front of Watson and he's dreading it.
And of course, the phases his face goes through when he's dismissive of a woman's feelings for a long-lost child then realizes from everyone's reaction that he goofed and goofed badly and looks to Watson.
"Not good?"
Jeff Wrangler:
So does this Sherlock for the new century still have a brother Mycroft? ;D
Not sure if this has been shown around here. It wouldn't really interest me anyway. One of the attractions for me in the real Sherlock Holmes stories, and in the Jeremy Brett series, is the late Victorian setting. Holmes has been updated before--I'm sure I read somewhere that most of the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce movies were set in the then present--but that just doesn't interest me.
So they gave Watson a girlfriend named Sarah? Humpf. Mary was good enough for Conan Doyle. ...
Benedict Cumberbatch: What a wonderful name! Perfectly balanced, three syllables each--and certainly memorable!
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