Sherlock: A Study in Pink
Aug. 8th, 2010 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylFinally caught up with the first episode of the BBC's Sherlock Holmes update, which I decided to watch after one of my friends told me that Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock reminded him of me. A lot. I'm not sure whether to be insulted or not: Holmes is smart and insightful, but he's also an annoying, freakish sociopath...
On the whole, I rather enjoyed the whole thing, especially the sly take on A Study in Scarlet which served as a source of red herrings — the rache vs rachel thing being particularly nice touch. I also liked the assumption that Holmes and Watson were dating, given the slashishness of some of the original stories which seem to be packed full of Holmes' hopeless misogyny.
I wasn't entirely convinced by the ending and the explanation of the killer's motives, which seemed somewhat arbitrary when compared to Ferrier's reasons in A Study. But I thought the whole Mycroft misdirect was nice, although not quite in the Alan Moore league.
On the whole, I rather enjoyed the whole thing, especially the sly take on A Study in Scarlet which served as a source of red herrings — the rache vs rachel thing being particularly nice touch. I also liked the assumption that Holmes and Watson were dating, given the slashishness of some of the original stories which seem to be packed full of Holmes' hopeless misogyny.
I wasn't entirely convinced by the ending and the explanation of the killer's motives, which seemed somewhat arbitrary when compared to Ferrier's reasons in A Study. But I thought the whole Mycroft misdirect was nice, although not quite in the Alan Moore league.
