They are showing the adverts for the American Sherlock thingy here …

[blamebrampton]

I am going to hate it, aren't I?

In other news, the lovely theodoraleft left many thanks for everyone who helped out with the Thanksgiving shopping last month. She also left the thanks last month, but I have been writing stories about bamboo and compost and god knows what else and burning my thumb and learning to play Cole Porter in E flat on the ukulele, not to mention very, very crap at doing anything in a timely fashion. Thanks, though! SHE was totally timely!

For anyone worried about December 21st, the world has not ended here in the future. It won't end over there in the past, either. Though if I have to go into the shopping centre opposite my work to buy salad for lunch and brave the bonkers crowds again tomorrow, it may end for one or two very specific people. I feel absolutely certain there must be a way to commit homicide by red pepper, if one is sufficiently motivated! Probably best to pack some extra porridge …

Keep out of the madding crowds, dear flist! If you haven't bought your gifts yet, tell everyone they were delayed in the post and buy them in the sales!

Comments

[bk7brokemybrain.livejournal.com]

Hm. I wasn't too sure at first, but it's growing on me. They are focusing heavily on the addict facet of his makeup. I really wasn't happy that the writers shoved Sherlock's sexuality(???) in our faces before we even meet him (a bit of mystery please? No? Thanks, writers). The crimes/plots weren't very complicated (I knew whodunnit one week before I even knew there was a murder), and they play fast and loose with locations and relative distances in NYC which is surprisingly annoying to me. Jonny Lee Miller pulls a lot of faces and Sherlock is very non-fastidious in his hygiene, so it just annoys me how far they took this version from canon, or even the BBC version.
That said I keep watching every week. The mysteries are improving, the Holmes/Watson relationship has been pretty solid, I love the leads (Aidan Quinn is a good second to Rupert Graves as far as silver foxes go), and the addiction issues are intriguing. Watson had been hired on a limited basis as his sober companion, so I'll be interested to see how they manage to keep her with Sherlock.
I'd give it a go. It's not the gem that the BBC version is, but it's good enough.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

The BBC one is up and down, but when it is up, it is very very up! Interesting that Watson is a hired companion, the equality of their relationship has always been the key, so it will be intriguing to see how that works.

I know what you mean about locations: both London and Sydney-based programmes have scene one 15km from scene two, when characters are meant to have walked there in three minutes ;-)