John Watson: Crime Doctor!
Okay, any takers on the movie that's from?
It is simply a celebration of political correctness.
Basil and Nigel please...
I don’t know what it was intended to be, but it was not like the earlier shows with the same actors... It was horrible and I gave up 2/3rds the way through.
Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson are my Holmes/Watson on radio.
The TV episode was a special after-Christmas gift to the many regular viewers of the three Sherlock seasons so far. It would not be understood well enough by occasional or once-only viewers such as Dean Weingarten, who is way over his head reviewing this particular incredibly-well-scripted episode of Sherlock.
I believe Sherlock used quite a bit of cocaine in the original books.
IT STUNK ON ICE !
And I am a fan of the usual series, modern though they made; it made sense. This POS? NO !
I have been a Sherlock Holmes fan for many years.
I liked the old Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce movies tho they were not high quality productions. I will say that Nigel Bruce did a remarkable rendition of “Loch Lomand” in one of the movies.
I guess the Jeremy Brett series was the best I have seen. It did stick pretty closely to the original stories.
I really wish that Rathbone and Bruce had been able to star in high quality productions which stuck to the original plots. They were really good actors.
This is not, and never has been a true rendering of the classic. It’s all been very modern and I have watched every show. This was not a bait and switch in the least. Even the weird P.C. speech he gave about women voting was a bit out of character for this Sherlock. He basically lacks any empathy at all, so that was odd, but throughout the story it was mentioned that many of the thoughts came from John Watson’s stories and descriptions of Sherlock. So. I liked it, but will have to watch it again.
The long-thought “lost” film starring William Gillette as Sherlock, from 1915, was recently found and released on dvd. I always thought he was credited with a lot of the characteristics later associated with Holmes, as he made a career out of the character on stage. First portraying him in 1899, if I’m recalling correctly. But the film itself is a bit stiff and stagey.
I’m rather partial to Rathbone and Bruce.
And speaking of Holmes, has anyone else ever read any of the other early, famous fictional detectives, like Craig Kennedy or Nick Carter?
John Watson: Crime Doctor!
Okay, any takers on the movie that's from?
I have had the EXACT same criticism of other “updated” Sherlock Holmes stories. For that matter Holmes would have seen through Irene Adler disguise, especially when she ventured to speak to him.
I haven’t seen the new special you spoke about, but I’ve seen all the other shows in this BBC series. I never thought it intended to be a “classic” Holmes and Watson series. It’s a “cheeky” (to use a Brit term) look at Holmes and Watson and I find it fun to watch.
The BBC has done some outstanding “retelling” of some classic literature. One of the best, for Jane Austen fans, was “Lost in Austen”...is it true to the regular story, no, but it’s a delightfully fun look at the book through a different view.
I ADORE the ‘new’ version of Sherlock and am SALIVATING for more episodes!
There’s a young man that works at my local grocer. He is the spitting IMAGE of the actor that plays Moriarty; I’m sure he wonders why this middle-aged woman STARES at him when she’s buying groceries; I’m just making sure he’s not going to KILL us all while we shop, LOL!
You all can say what you want - I LOVE this series. Not much on Free Government TV these days makes me actually sit up and take notice, but I love this series. (I won’t pay for cable TV and I use my Library for movies for the most part; may as well get some use out of SOME of my Tax Dollars!)
Ruin it for yourselves with your hypersensitivity. I would pay to watch Benedict Cumberbatch read the phone book. Maybe THAT should be the next episode? ;)
Wow, thanks for the heads up.
I too love the series.
BC has become more and more of a leftist loon.
I read somewhere that he was doing a play and at the end he came out and begged everyone to let in more terrorists and rapist from the Middle East.
This episode was a one-off that, as near as I can tell, was supposed to be a drug fantasy of the current-day Holmes set in the late 19th century. It was scripted by Stephen Moffat, who produces the BBC’s Dr. Who. It shared characteristics of the current Dr. Who stories — convoluted, self-referential, PC, and too clever by half.
It's abominabubbabbubble!