New BBC Sherlock

[tamaranth]

Liked:
- character interplay & general snark
- reimagining / reinvention of elements from original canon (scratches on mobile phone rather than watch, 'Afghanistan or Iraq?' 'come at once ... if not convenient come anyway', Harry short for Harriet)
- the visual aesthetic (e.g. the text message displays)
- LONDON
- Holmes' addiction to problem-solving though he is not very good at it

Less impressed by:
- the 'plot' -- even if I hadn't read A Study in Scarlet I would have picked up on what was happening before the characters did
- no, really, the plot was stupid and did not conclude in any decent fashion
- sheer randomness of some of Holmes' actions -- original is not this oblivious / careless
- Benedict Cumberbatch's eyes are too small, and his makeup too thick.
- points at which, either because of the script or the acting, Holmes seemed to be channelling the Eleventh Doctor

Plenty of resonances between this, the Guy Ritchie film, and House -- all based on same canon, all riffing off each other. I still prefer Robert Downey Jr over Cumberbatch, and even Jude Law over

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I like Cumberbatch as an actor, and found him entertaining in this, but closer to his character from The State Within than to Holmes. But I loved Freeman.
And we agree totally on the plot -- we were sitting there saying 'It's the NAME REDACTED' over and over.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Same here, and the Princess Bride ending ... surely they realised that most of their "fan" base would be able to quote the appropriate scene :-)

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

it was the Holmes being The Doctor so much that made it fun, I think - that and Watson being the real Watson - but Holmes is not actually The Doctor in Conan Doyle, only in, say, those Mary Russell books ;-)