When did you know you were hooked

[jesskayding]

I knew @ hello. I turned the channel... It was already about 1/2 way thru Episode 3 of season 1... There was this young pale faced man with stark black hair sitting in front of a microscope. I knew I was in love... & I knew his name was Sherlock.

 

Modern day Sherlock.. Then text messages & thought sequences were being displayed across the scene... I was done for.

[Arcadia]

Rescuing Mrs. Hudson from the CIA guys. Yowza.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Chasing through the dark streets of London after the black cab.

[besleybean]

Gosh,some of  you  were slow or maybe just young!

I'd been raised on the Basil Rathbone films and the Jeremy Brett series.

I read The Sign of Four as a teen.

My  sister and I saw The Young Sherlock Holmes when we were students.

So I heard about the BBC series on the car radio and thought: ooh, this sounds good.

Then I saw the trailer for ep 1 and thought it looked great.

I sat and watched the opening episode with my son and at the end turned to him and said: that was absolutely fantastic, can't wait for the next one.

I then immediately went on line and began to Google all about it and that was the 1st time ever I'd ever done that for anything or anyone.

[Janie]

Sherlock beating the corpse in ASiP. I was thinking "God, he's crazy! I love him!" But everything was so great. Actors, the script, music...

[Convict13]

 

when I saw the ad for it,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Arcadia]

Gosh,some of  you  were slow or maybe just young!

Nope, neither, just never heard of it until "Scandal" was rebroadcast!

I wish I could remember where I first heard about it, I'd like to thank that person. Profusely.

[besleybean]

Do you mean the show or Sherlock Holmes?

I only knew about the show quite close to airing.

[Arcadia]

Oh, the show. Like you, I grew up on Rathbone and Brett, and loved Young Sherlock Holmes. And I've never googled all about any show or anyone either. We've been bewitched ensorcelled enchanted!

[besleybean]

Ha.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I'd never even heard of the show -- don't pay much attention to television these days.  Alex and I were visiting a friend in October of 2010, and as we walked in, she said, "Oh, I'm glad you're here -- there's a new program that sounds interesting.  It's about Sherlock Holmes in the twenty-first century."  In the second or two that it took me to translate that into "current day" (rather than "futuristic"), the program had started.

 

I think I was hooked at roughly "We'll start with the riding crop."

 

P.S.:  I've moved this thread from "General Sherlock Discussion" (which covers all versions of Sherlock Holmes) to "BBC Sherlock General Discussion" (which covers just this program).

 

[Ruthyone]

I knew I'd been 'Sherlocked' from the first half-hour of the opening episode 'A Study In Pink'  

 

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Oh yes, I have been following Sherlock Holmes since I was about eight years old. Reading "A Study in Scarlet". Watching Basil Rathbone.....good times and good stuff. I really really like "Young Sherlock Holmes" and wished Columbus had followed through with more movies like he promised but never did. 

 

I heard about the BBC airing a updated Sherlock Holmes on Masterpiece Mystery...and I'm thinking.....uh oh....here we go again. Hollywood attempted it a couple of times and neither one got past the pilot. But when it aired I sat down to watch. I did love the riding crop scene.....the music helps make it. And that slight smile and "The name is Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221b Baker Street".....oh yes....the hook was baited.  But the chase scene is what reeled me in was . "Hurry John, we're losing him!"  and "No! This way!"  "Sorry" as John runs by the camera again. 

 

 And I haven't regretted one second of it.

[sherlockandjohn]

Great topic for discussion! It's so much fun reading about when you were all hooked

 

I was from episode one, though it's hard to say when exactly it happened. I often say it was the ending of A Study in Pink - one of my favorite scenes in the show - but truth is it probably happened sooner. Maybe at one of these points:

 

• "Yeah. He's always like that."
• "That's not what people normally say." "What do people normally say?" "Piss off."
• "Could it be that you've decided to trust Sherlock Holmes of all people?"
• "Anderson, don't talk out loud. You lower IQ of the whole street."

Sherlock's eccentricity and the great humor of the show as well as the friendship between Sherlock and John were the things that first caught my attention. They're still the best elements. I also loved how original it felt. I hadn't (and haven't) really seen anything like it. It's a unique blend of the best kind of drama, humor, and mystery, without romance as a main storyline, but instead with a friendship at the heart of the story. And it has the best cast ever, none of whom I was familiar with from before (except Martin Freeman). The deductions pulled me in, of course. I was also dazzled by the feel of something Victorian in the midst of this modern day telling, mostly due to the way Sherlock and Mycroft hold themselves and how they speak, as well as by the use of London. Oh, and I have to say I fell in love with 221b immediately!

 

All of this makes me want to go put ASiP in my DVD player. Thank you for making me remember how much I adore this show Not that I'd ever entirely forget, but I was just now reminded of all of the stuff that makes it so special.

 

I wish I could remember where I first heard about it, I'd like to thank that person. Profusely.

 

I'll have to give my thanks to Mr. Freeman, since his wonderful performance in The Hobbit was what lead me to discover what else he was doing. Other members of my family will then have to thank me

 

[Arcadia]

I can't remember how I heard of it, but Mr. Freeman's presence was what convinced me to watch it, so I'll thank him too!

[Janie]

The same here! At first I was a bit sceptical about the character of Sherlock when I first saw a photo of him (yes, I didn't like his face  Don't ask me why ) but I decided to give it a go and then... something happened 

[Carol the Dabbler]

I had never even heard of anyone in the show -- except for Benedict Cumberbatch's mother, Wanda Ventham, who had been in several British programs (um, excuse me, programmes) that I watched in the 60's and 70's.  Nowadays, however, Martin Freeman's presence is definitely enough to convince me to watch just about anything.

 

[Zain]

I knew I was hooked when Cumberbatch first appeared on the screen. Just stumbled over it, and I can say I had very low expectations indeed. Just one of those Sherlock Holmes adaptions, right? And there are sooo many. I literally stumbled over it, when I browsed imdb for recommendations. If I hadn't had a very slow evening with basically nothing to do (and believe me, I have weird hobbies, thus I rarely have slow evenings...), I would have never seen this masterpiece.

Yeah. Cumberbatch just has got such a strong and believable presence. I remember that I had to rightened myself up in my seat. Stopped "multitasking" and just watched. Doesn't happen much with me. That's when I become hooked. Because he managed to get my full attention, and without grand gestures or speeches, or whatever techniques often used to capture the audience's attention. Things rarely do catch me on the wrong foot like this series did.

[Redbeard]

Oh, the show. Like you, I grew up on Rathbone and Brett, and loved Young Sherlock Holmes. And I've never googled all about any show or anyone either. We've been bewitched ensorcelled enchanted!

 

And perhaps...Cumberbatched??

 

I was also hooked early on.  I was intrigued when Mike Stamford told John that someone else was looking for a roommate and wondered who would possibly live with them...I was very interested when first seeing Sherlock Holmes, it was like time stopped and I was transfixed.  lol.  When the text messages (Wrong!) popped up on screen I knew it was going to be something original, unique and quirky.  When he said "the name is Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221B Baker St", complete with wink).  Even the music make me take notice that was Something Special.  I became a full-on addict before the credits rolled.  (And I was a skeptic to be honest.  This show ranked on my list of "yeah I'd maybe like to see it, someday, maybe, whatever it will probably suck" to my Absolute Favourite Show of All-Time. 

[Arcadia]

 

Oh, the show. Like you, I grew up on Rathbone and Brett, and loved Young Sherlock Holmes. And I've never googled all about any show or anyone either. We've been bewitched ensorcelled enchanted!

 

And perhaps...Cumberbatched??

 

Of course, the very word I was searching for!

[sherlockandjohn]

 

Even the music make me take notice that was Something Special.

 

Oh, definitely! It is just spot on. Parts of the "The Game is On" theme immediately transported me back to London in the days when Sherlock was written by ACD.

 

Maybe that was actually when I was hooked; when Sherlock says: "Who cares about decent? The game, Mrs. Hudson, is on!" - and that lovely piece of music flares...

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

I heard the first four notes of the theme song and then i was like

 

[T.o.b.y]

The conversation about Sherlock refusing to be a hero and what he says about crying at people's bedsides in The Great Game. That did it for me. Completely. And I wasn't even watching the original audio version at the time, but a bad dub.

 

The Great Game was the first episode I saw. Then when I got the British DVD, I was enthralled right from the very beginning.

[jesskayding]

Gosh,some of you were slow or maybe just young!

I'd been raised on the Basil Rathbone films and the Jeremy Brett series.

I read The Sign of Four as a teen.

My sister and I saw The Young Sherlock Holmes when we were students.

So I heard about the BBC series on the car radio and thought: ooh, this sounds good.

Then I saw the trailer for ep 1 and thought it looked great.

I sat and watched the opening episode with my son and at the end turned to him and said: that was absolutely fantastic, can't wait for the next one.

I then immediately went on line and began to Google all about it and that was the 1st time ever I'd ever done that for anything or anyone.

You know I've never been part of a forum for anything... I'm obsessed.

[jesskayding]

 

Gosh,some of you were slow or maybe just young!

Nope, neither, just never heard of it until ASiP was rebroadcast!

I wish I could remember where I first heard about it, I'd like to thank that person. Profusely.

I know right! Aye Europeans... Have mercy on us poor late Americans... We didn't know... They didn't tell us till like 6 years later apparently.