Sherlock
Four years on and I can finally stop seeing Benedict Cumberbatch as the paedophile rapist from Atonement.
So here you’ve got this guy who geniunely can’t understand why a dying woman would write her dead daughter’s name, and another guy who’s half traumatized by and half horribly missing the horrors of war, and together they fight crime! No, actually, I mean…
…Watson is basically Holmes’ humanity. In all of the books and adaptations. I’m not quite getting that from this show, but I think it’ll pick up later. I want to see the ‘great heart as well a great brain’ scene. Basically, Holmes and Watson are the original yin-and-yang-style friendship, each of them brings out the best in the other, and I really want to see more of that.
Yeah, the new Watson…he’s good, Martin Freeman is always good, but I want more of the kindly, Gentlemanly (with a capital G) Watson. Jude Law is still my favourite, weirdly enough.
Anyway! Onto everything else. I (along with 99% of the Holmesian population) assumed that sharp-dressed-umbrella-guy was Moriarty, and was actually a little disappointed when it turned out to be Mycroft, mostly because Mycroft is supposed to be fat but partly because I secretly hoped that if the show even featured him he’d be played by Stephen Fry.
I knew the plot from A Study In Scarlet, but I don’t think I have any issues with the changes. Although I think on the whole I would have preferred the murderer to be a dying man seeking revenge for his dead girlfriend (as in the original) rather than a guy killing for the heck of it.
Hey, I have a really random theory but I’ll laugh if it turns out to be true: that woman with Mycroft is Moriarty. They already changed the gender of Watson’s sibling, so they can change other genders too, and I’m sure there’s never been a female Moriarty before. It could work!
Either that, or it’s the name of an organisation…
On the whole, it was great! The next one’s next week, right? I hope so.