Mr. Holmes

Sherlock Sherlock or True Detective

Hi, vark! I just started watching Coupling recently, funny stuff.

I can understand if he sees stronger parallels in something else than Sherlock Holmes, but you have to be acting deliberately contrarian to say you don't think House was based on Sherlock Holmes.

Bennedict Cumberbatch on Sesame Street

- No Moriarty. I hope it's a ruse masterminded by a new villain who is equally worthy. Besides that, I just hope they keep up the quality and subvert expectations. Ideally I would like to not wait another 2 years, but quality is more important than that.

I'm kind of worrying I wasted my 5 dollars now, though. I got up to a certain point and there aren't any new cases. I hope they update soon.

That was always my interpretation too. And I always thought that little remark to Anderson in the first episode was also just to troll him.

Yup, pretty much. Oh well, I suppose we'll have better luck over time.

No one seems to use it.

Dunno if there's a thread for this, but I'm really enjoying the Sherlock app game.

Ah sorry, I didn't read the whole discussion. As others have already said, I'm surprised they couldn't fake that either.

Wait, they couldn't just give him a fake patch? That sounds messed up.

I can see the similarities, but I can't see anything from House that could have possibly been lifted directly to Sherlock. They both have the antisocial routine, but the difference is that they carry themselves in totally different ways. House is really casual and lazy, where as Sherlock is the opposite of that, really. that might just be the by product of the genres. you can't have an overactive holmes in a hospital, or a laid back house in a crime drama. I think you could. I was going to say more the product of the culture/country of the shows.

Me too. I kind of like Moriarty as a voice inside Sherlock's head, though. I think if they want him to be part of the series again, they should just show us more of what goes on inside the Mind Palace. That would allow for all sorts of crazy ideas and impossible reappearances. And I wouldn't mind seeing more of Irene in that context either. Definitely. I loved how Andrew Scott was used in this Series.

Bringing in a brother of Moriarty would be fine, but having Andrew Scott return to play his twin would be ridiculous. I hope Moftiss are smarter than that.

How on earth did that happen? I just had to make them watch it! It helps that 3 of them live in London.

I can see the similarities, but I can't see anything from House that could have possibly been lifted directly to Sherlock. They both have the antisocial routine, but the difference is that they carry themselves in totally different ways. House is really casual and lazy, where as Sherlock is the opposite of that, really.

Ooh I think I'll get this for collector's sake. I hardly play any physical board games anymore, but my relatives will be coming soon and they're all Sherlock fans, so this game should do the trick. For those of you who have it - is it worth it, quality-wise and all?

I created a Sherlock-inspired Tumblr a few months ago, but never really got the hang of what I should do on there besides reblogging.

I'm not familiar with any of those programs, so I need to ask how long is each episode? Each Sherlock episode is a true 90 minutes, or a total of four and a half hours per series. While Elementary is nominally a one-hour program, roughly a quarter of that goes to commercials, so that each actual episode is about half as long as a Sherlock episode (amazing how much they manage to pack into that 3/4 hour, though!). Breaking Bad and Mad Men were on AMC, where they're about the same - 47 minutes ish. The Wire was HBO, so a full hour with no ads. But still when you have 10+ episodes, one season of that length is still more total running time than for Sherlock.

No, but to be fair there are shows like Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and The Wire that air 10+ episodes a year, and are at least equal to Sherlock in quality. There's no point in comparing Elementary and Sherlock, because despite being inspired by the same source material, they couldn't be more different in approach and ambition. Elementary like you point out is in the standard of a mainstream US Network show, where as Sherlock is more of a series of short films than a television show.

Oh! I want to talk about it - I loved it so much - but I don't know how to use spoiler boxes.... I personally hated the people who reviewed it nastily on Amazon, particularly those who compared it unfavourably to stupid Downton Abbey, which is basically a posh soap opera. (And Benedict presumably felt the same, as he said Downton was rubbish - for which he was criticised in the UK press.). I particularly loathed the person who said Christopher Tietjens was "very weak.". How dumb can you be? He isn't weak, he is an honourable man who lives by a moral code that other people have abandoned. He sticks to it even at great cost to himself, when other people blame him for things of which he is wholly innocent. My heart bled for him, both in the book and the tv series. I thought Benedict's performance was masterly - subtle, intelligent and sad. The actress who played his wife - I am afraid I forgot her name - was exceptionally good too. Haha really? My brother has been nagging me to watch Downton Abbey. Someone else then told me it was mostly for girls, and that he was weird for liking it. I'll have to check out Parade's End instead now.

Does the the question though what stories will be adapted. It feels like we've covered the major ones.

Just curious if anyone had any ideas or theories to how the homicidal taxi man's antics worked? He lets you choose the pill, takes the other one, and yet he had successfully won four times in a row. Is there anything here to speculate about, or was it just something Moftiss left way too ambiguously to make sense of?

Person of Interest is great. It's by Jonathan Nolan who wrote the Dark Knight films, and it's about a Sherlock/Mycroft level genius Harold Finch who creates this almost sentient program "The Machine" that looks through data like your emails, phone calls, etc. to predict crimes before they happen. 10 years ago it would have been science fiction, but now it's almost real, and the show manages to be really relevant, it started only a couple years before the Edward Snowden/NSA debacle.