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Post by aubrey on Jul 27, 2010 16:54:28 GMT
Oh, well. I always enjoy that sort of stuff (though I would not have noticed the roving wound were it not for the notes in my Oxford World's Classics editions of the books; maybe Moffat's working from the same books?). I won't ignore Riot. - One, because I don't trust her not to come down to London and seek me out; and Two, because I took it as a compliment.  |
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Post by swl on Jul 28, 2010 7:50:30 GMT
I quite liked it.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 28, 2010 9:42:49 GMT
Oh, well. I always enjoy that sort of stuff (though I would not have noticed the roving wound were it not for the nores in my Oxford World's Classics editions of the books; maybe Moffat's working from the same books?). I won't ignore Riot. - One, because I don't trust her not to come down to London and seek me out; and Two, because I took it as a compliment. Seek you out Aubrey? What on earth makes you think I don't already know where you live? |
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Post by alanseago on Jul 28, 2010 10:45:18 GMT
Oh, you are still there Aubrey, someone told me you had moved.
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Post by aubrey on Jul 28, 2010 17:03:32 GMT
Eeek!
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Post by everso on Jul 28, 2010 17:19:04 GMT
I'm rather fond of anorak types. I tend to be a bit anorakky about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jul 28, 2010 18:26:55 GMT
Us nurds are the future.
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Post by everso on Jul 28, 2010 18:36:18 GMT
There's nothing like a good Fred and Ginger film.  |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 29, 2010 9:16:35 GMT
My daughter Uberteen is raving about the new Sherlock Holmes series. And she is the very definition of a geek. So Aubrey, you may be correct.
I don't fancy it much; but that doesn't mean it's not great.
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Post by aubrey on Jul 29, 2010 9:56:32 GMT
Geeks are cool. Even cooler than nurds.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 29, 2010 10:39:16 GMT
Geeks are cool. Even cooler than nurds. Aubrey, is it not spelled 'nerds' rather than 'nurds'? |
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Post by Patrick on Jul 29, 2010 10:53:49 GMT
A few weeks ago the Radio Times raved about the "Ten new series that will revitalise the schedules". I think two were vaguely 'original' - the other eight were the usual mixture of re-adaptations, detective programmes, readapted detective programmes. Bonnets and Petticoat Adaptations, Detectives in Bonnets and Petticoat adaptations and a medical/detective/bonnet/petticoat readaptation.
I can't wait for someone with original thinking to come along. We've already lost Alan Plater and Dennis Potter - so I'm not holding out much hope.
Anyone seen Alan Bleasdale recently?
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jul 29, 2010 10:58:38 GMT
In a few years, people will still be buying the definitive Jeremy Brett versions of SH on DVD...this new pretender will be forgoten about...buried in a shallow grave with a bunch of other mediocre "modern" BBC remakes...  AH |
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Post by aubrey on Jul 29, 2010 16:51:40 GMT
Geeks are cool. Even cooler than nurds. Aubrey, is it not spelled 'nerds' rather than 'nurds'? £28, bloody hell. I wonder if I've got any left? |
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Post by Weyland on Aug 2, 2010 11:32:25 GMT
Watched the second episode. No better.  Costy got it right -- those plots can only entertain when set in the original Edwardian milieu. IMO. |
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Post by trubble on Aug 2, 2010 12:14:41 GMT
I'm halfway through the first episode. The jury is by necessity still out although I suspect I like it. A few little quirks and twists have made me laugh already. I think the production is done in full awareness that most of its audience will be well versed - perhaps to the point of extreme nerdiness - with Holmes and accordingly its playing with us, titillating and tickling and poking and pressing our buttons in a most professional and clever manner. Or if it's not doing that on purpose then it's just crap.
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Post by trubble on Aug 2, 2010 12:14:52 GMT
Ooops. I see swl has already said what I wanted to say. Ignore my post. |
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Post by Weyland on Aug 2, 2010 13:09:49 GMT
I'm halfway through the first episode. The jury is by necessity still out although I suspect I like it. A few little quirks and twists have made me laugh already. I think the production is done in full awareness that most of its audience will be well versed - perhaps to the point of extreme nerdiness - with Holmes and accordingly its playing with us, titillating and tickling and poking and pressing our buttons in a most professional and clever manner. Or if it's not doing that on purpose then it's just crap. That's probably what annoys me most. Plus the fact that some people seem to be enjoying it, dammit. And, as if that wasn't enough, Camberbutch reminds me of Clarkson. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 2, 2010 15:39:13 GMT
I'm halfway through the first episode. The jury is by necessity still out although I suspect I like it. A few little quirks and twists have made me laugh already. I think the production is done in full awareness that most of its audience will be well versed - perhaps to the point of extreme nerdiness - with Holmes and accordingly its playing with us, titillating and tickling and poking and pressing our buttons in a most professional and clever manner. Or if it's not doing that on purpose then it's just crap. That's probably what annoys me most. Plus the fact that some people seem to be enjoying it, dammit. And, as if that wasn't enough, Camberbutch reminds me of Clarkson. No accounting for wierdos, Weyland.  AH |
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Post by Weyland on Aug 2, 2010 15:46:30 GMT
No accounting for wierdos, Weyland. AH I knew I could count on you, Alph. |
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