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by **Heid the Ba** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:24 pm

Excellent new series from the BBC called Sherlock. It is the Sherlock Holmes story moved into the present day.

Dr John Watson is an Army doctor just returned from Afghanistan etc. but with a blog not a diary. It is very nicely done. Only three so far but more in the pipeline.

Steven Moffat is the brains behind it.

by **Мастер** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 1:25 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:Dr John Watson is an Army doctor just returned from Afghanistan etc.

Well, some things change, and some things stay the same :)

Heid the Ba' wrote:Steven Moffat is the brains behind it.

The man who brought us Coupling!

by **Heid the Ba** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 1:39 pm

Mactep wrote:
Heid the Ba' wrote:Steven Moffat is the brains behind it.

The man who brought us Coupling!

And more recently Doctor Who.

On checking his bio, he is almost exactly the same age as me and we grew up a couple of miles apart.

by **KLA2** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:31 pm

They will have to go a long way to best Jeremy Brett (RIP) ... the most accurate portrayal of Holmes I have ever seen. Of course, this would be SH in name only ...

by **Lianachan** » Fri May 06, 2011 10:33 am

KLA2 wrote:They will have to go a long way to best Jeremy Brett (RIP) ... the most accurate portrayal of Holmes I have ever seen.

I'll see your Jeremy Brett and raise you a Michael Caine!

by **KLA2** » Sat May 07, 2011 3:04 am

You raise, but you bluff. :P

I greatly admire Caine, but second best was, I think, Christopher Plummer (Murder by Decree).

As for Basil Rathbone, well. Not my cup of tea or, 7% solution. :wink:

Bye the bye, a pet peeve is how often Doctor Watson was portrayed as a bumbling idiot in film, as a foil to Holmes genius.

In the novels, Watson was anything but. Another reason I enjoyed the Jeremy Brett series, and James Mason in Murder by Decree.

by **Lianachan** » Sat May 07, 2011 8:02 am

I never was very good at poker.

Have you seen the 2002 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles? It has Richard Roxburgh as Holmes, and I think is probably one of the best portrayals of him I've seen.

by **KLA2** » Sun May 08, 2011 2:49 am

I think not. But I will watch for it. :)

by **KLA2** » Sun May 08, 2011 2:55 am

Lianachan wrote:I never was very good at poker.

Oh, yes? I have found that whenever someone says that, I should pick up my money and walk away from the table. :lol:

by **Enzo** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:15 am

The Houuuund of the Basketballs.....

Who let him out? WHo, who, who, who?

by **KLA2** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:13 am

Enzo wrote:The Houuuund of the Basketballs.....

Who let him out? WHo, who, who, who?

Hmmm ... offends Sherlock fans, basketball fans, dog fanciers and rappers, not to mention a potential lawsuit from Pete Townsend, all in one sentence ...

Well done, old chap! :lol:

:wink:

by **tubeswell** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:14 am

I saw the Robert Downey Junior flick on blu-ray the week before last. That is worth a 2nd watch.

by **Heid the Ba** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:49 pm

Another three of these have been made and are being broadcast now. I haven't watched them but I have them recorded.

by **Lianachan** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:07 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:Another three of these have been made and are being broadcast now. I haven't watched them but I have them recorded.

My wife watched the first one, and I suppose I sort of did by second hand/passive viewing. I didn't pay much attention to it, but I didn't much care for the bits I did see. I didn't like the first series, though.

by **Мастер** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:59 pm

KLA2 wrote:Bye the bye, a pet peeve is how often Doctor Watson was portrayed as a bumbling idiot in film, as a foil to Holmes genius.

Well, you might like the Michael Caine interpretation then :)

I have a few DVDs with the Soviet edition of Sherlock Holmes, but haven't watched them. They might actually be at my pseudo-sister's house in the US, I left a bunch behind when I moved here.

by **Heid the Ba** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:46 pm

I saw the first of the second series of this and I'm afraid it was a big pile of toss. It made very little sense and had a tacked on happy ending which really grated.

I have the other two recorded and will watch at some point.

by **KLA2** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:21 am

Mactep wrote:
KLA2 wrote:Bye the bye, a pet peeve is how often Doctor Watson was portrayed as a bumbling idiot in film, as a foil to Holmes genius.

Well, you might like the Michael Caine interpretation then :)

I have a few DVDs with the Soviet edition of Sherlock Holmes, but haven't watched them. They might actually be at my pseudo-sister's house in the US, I left a bunch behind when I moved here.

Oh, that would be fun.

Watson: Brilliant deduction, Holmes!

Holmes: All credit, Watson, must go to Comrad Stalin, and the superior Soviet Socialist system. Only that can find the identity of the bourgousie criminal running dog of capitalist imperialism who commits such a crime against the people.

pass the vodka.

by **Мастер** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:35 am

"Running dog"? It's Soviet, not Asian :)

by **Enzo** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:03 am

Well then, southeast USSR.

by **KLA2** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:16 pm

Mactep wrote:"Running dog"? It's Soviet, not Asian :)

OK, "lumbering bear"? :P

by **Мастер** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:53 am

KLA2 wrote:
Mactep wrote:"Running dog"? It's Soviet, not Asian :)

OK, "lumbering bear"? :P

But the running dogs were the client states of your neighbours to the south :)

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