Sherlock
You know…that one left me pretty apathetic. It wasn’t as good as the last one, and I’m not warming to Martin Freeman’s Watson. Everyone involved is a good actor, the script is good, but I’m just not feeling it. Martin Freeman’s always played the Everyman, but Watson isn’t an Everyman, not really. One of my favourite bits in any of the books is in The Dying Detective, where Holmes tells Watson not to come near the sickbed or he’ll catch the disease, and Watson replies with something like, “Such a thing would not stop me doing my duty to a patient, what makes you think it would affect me in the case of so old a friend?” See, that’s not the Watson in this show.
Benedict Cumberbatch continues to be great, but I miss the awesomeness that is movie!Holmes-Watson and book!Holmes-Watson. Really, all I got from this was an overwhelming desire to read the books again.
I’m gonna watch next week anyway. Just to see what it’s like…