Sorry, meant to read this yesterday, but y'know... busy, busy.
WORD! to all of this. But your review deserves a more eloquent and thoughtful answer, which I am unable to provide right now due to extreme tiredness and thus a tendency towards incoherence. So I shall be back tomorrow to discuss at length.
Part 2 of 3 of long, tedious replypythia_delphiJuly 30 2010, 22:09:07 UTC
I agree with you about other things: the mess, the wonderfulness of Mrs. Hudson (I think her catchphrase will become a running gag, rather like Dr. McCoy's 'I'm a doctor, not a ...' in Star Trek:TOS), and Sherlock's open affection for as well as exasperation with her, as well as Sherlock's unabashed exultation in crime (and not pretending he cares or that he's doing it to 'help people
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I thought the plot a bit thin on the ground, tbh. I liked that they twisted the details of the original story, and upto the point when S&J chase the taxi, I was totally in awe of Sherlock's powers and on board. But then he fails to recognise that the cabbie, not the passenger, is the culprit, and I think the writers did that for dramatic effect later on at the denouement. It seems ludicrous to me that the same person who has made such startling deductions about John within a second of meeting him would be so slow on the uptake, esp. when he himself said they were looking for someone who 'was trusted without being known, who went unrecognised on a busy street', etc. I mean, I got it immediately, even though I'd forgotten that in the original story, Jefferson Hope was the cabbie. However, the idea of a cabbie driving his passengers to suicide by talking them to death had a wonderful touch of dark humour about it. I mean, how often have we ourselves been driven by a boring cabbie who natters on, eh? I also
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Oh, yes, the riding crop scene. Strangely enough (or not, if you consider he's, well, beating a corpse, haha), in the books I never thought of this as "sexy", but Benedict has changed my mind on that. Don't know what this says about my choice in men, but there you are. And on the topic of violence, I partly agree with you on the cabbie-hurting scene, it was OOC and even friends who only know Sherlock Holmes through me thought so. But (and I'm not sure what this says about me) - in a way I found it fascinating and intense, and it fitted this Sherlock, in a certain way
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I found that extra layer of darkness fascinating too. Brought him a bit closer to the characxterisation of my other fictional love, Severus Snape, who's a wonderfully complex and morally ambiguous
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I thought the plot a bit thin on the ground, tbh. I liked that they twisted the details of the original story, and upto the point when S&J chase the taxi, I was totally in awe of Sherlock's powers and on board. But then he fails to recognise that the cabbie, not the passenger, is the culprit, and I think the writers did that for dramatic effect later on at the denouement. It seems ludicrous to me that the same person who has made such startling deductions about John within a second of meeting him would be so slow on the uptake, esp. when he himself said they were looking for someone who 'was trusted without being known, who went unrecognised on a busy street', etc. I mean, I got it immediately, even though I'd forgotten that in the original story, Jefferson Hope was the cabbie. However, the idea of a cabbie driving his passengers to suicide by talking them to death had a wonderful touch of dark humour about it. I mean, how often have we ourselves been driven by a boring cabbie who natters on, eh? I also ( ... )
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Oh, yes, the riding crop scene. Strangely enough (or not, if you consider he's, well, beating a corpse, haha), in the books I never thought of this as "sexy", but Benedict has changed my mind on that. Don't know what this says about my choice in men, but there you are. And on the topic of violence, I partly agree with you on the cabbie-hurting scene, it was OOC and even friends who only know Sherlock Holmes through me thought so. But (and I'm not sure what this says about me) - in a way I found it fascinating and intense, and it fitted this Sherlock, in a certain way ( ... )
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