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apple_pathwaysFinally watched The Hounds of Baskerville - I loved all of the little nods to canon.
My favorite was the recreation of Sherlock's gambling gambit from The Blue Carbuncle, where he gets the information he's seeking out of a reluctant witness by taking note of the man's gambling habit (the racing form tucked into his pocket) and pretending to have a bet going with John.
I wish I could say that all of the character names borrowed from the book meant something, but they were more or less just slapped on randomly. Sure, Stapleton was a scientist, but would it have killed them to make some sort of reference to butterflies? (Or given her a brother.) Mortimer seemed to fit well, as a Doctor and Henry's 'friend', but, well: what sort of doctor can't recognize the effects of a hallucinogenic drug? And the culprit was FRANKLAND, the comic relief old curmudgeon who liked to sue his neighbors? *sigh*
But that's just petty griping from a fan for whom The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of her favorite novels. :P
Over all, this episode was tremendously fun and creepy and madcap, which is just what I want from this series.
I'm still processing my thoughts from the first ep. It's not that I didn't like Irene Adler: I enjoyed her quite a bit. But, well: she wasn't Irene Adler. I did not like her falling in love with Sherlock. MAJOR EYEROLLS at all of the "the combination is her measurements", "SHERLOCKED", "I'm a lesbian, psych, no I'm not" nonsense. (I really appreciate Moffat discovering that LGBTQ people exist. Can someone explain to him how they work now?) (Oh, except for the gay couple at the Inn in this last episode. I ♥ them. "He snores. Does yours snore?" LOVE THEM!)
I loved her being extremely clever and one step ahead of Sherlock the whole time.
Now that I'm getting dangerously close to meta, I am going to cut this short. I just wanted to say: I have seen the first two episodes of Sherlock. I have enjoyed them! I still want to kick Stephen Moffat in the nuts.
My favorite was the recreation of Sherlock's gambling gambit from The Blue Carbuncle, where he gets the information he's seeking out of a reluctant witness by taking note of the man's gambling habit (the racing form tucked into his pocket) and pretending to have a bet going with John.
I wish I could say that all of the character names borrowed from the book meant something, but they were more or less just slapped on randomly. Sure, Stapleton was a scientist, but would it have killed them to make some sort of reference to butterflies? (Or given her a brother.) Mortimer seemed to fit well, as a Doctor and Henry's 'friend', but, well: what sort of doctor can't recognize the effects of a hallucinogenic drug? And the culprit was FRANKLAND, the comic relief old curmudgeon who liked to sue his neighbors? *sigh*
But that's just petty griping from a fan for whom The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of her favorite novels. :P
Over all, this episode was tremendously fun and creepy and madcap, which is just what I want from this series.
I'm still processing my thoughts from the first ep. It's not that I didn't like Irene Adler: I enjoyed her quite a bit. But, well: she wasn't Irene Adler. I did not like her falling in love with Sherlock. MAJOR EYEROLLS at all of the "the combination is her measurements", "SHERLOCKED", "I'm a lesbian, psych, no I'm not" nonsense. (I really appreciate Moffat discovering that LGBTQ people exist. Can someone explain to him how they work now?) (Oh, except for the gay couple at the Inn in this last episode. I ♥ them. "He snores. Does yours snore?" LOVE THEM!)
I loved her being extremely clever and one step ahead of Sherlock the whole time.
Now that I'm getting dangerously close to meta, I am going to cut this short. I just wanted to say: I have seen the first two episodes of Sherlock. I have enjoyed them! I still want to kick Stephen Moffat in the nuts.