Hello from just south of Normal

[Lauren]

Hello. My name is Lauren and I'm from Bloomington, IL USA (which really is south of a town called Normal)

 

 

I'm really not sure how I got into Sherlock. LOL I was a fan of Doctor Who first. I guess i decided to check out Sherlock after watching Matt and Benedict present Steven with the special BAFTA award. I noticed Series 2 of Sherlock on DVD at the store while I was looking in the TV on DVD section and I figured "hey why not?" LOL. Loved it. I had not read any of the Sherlock books as a child. I live in the US and when i was a child, although I was above average in reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder books were more up my alley. Thanks to Sherlock and Doctor Who I am majorly addicted to British Television. I watch a lot of it on youtube since I get a grand total of 2 UK TV channels: BBC America (which show mostly Top Gear and Gordon Ramsey-no thanks on those 2) and BBC News. I watch QI and Never Mind The Buzzcocks (the series that had Mark Lamarr, I'd prefer to throw Simon Amstell under a bus). I love getting to learn about another culture and planning a 2016 trip to the UK to celebrate my 30th birthday.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Hi, Lauren -- welcome to Sherlock Forum! Nice to have another fellow Midwesterner here! I'm much further from Normal than you are, but not too far from Liberty IN!

 

Yeah, Sherlock is sneaky, for sure. A friend just happened to turn on the TV one day when I was over, and now we're both hooked. Like you, I read voraciously as a child, including the Little House books (and Alice in Wonderland and a fair number of grown-up novels), but my local library apparently didn't believe in science fiction or mysteries, so I never got into detective fiction until much later, with Lord Peter Wimsey and Nero Wolfe Even then, I don't recall ever reading any Sherlock Holmes stories (though I'd inherited my father's complete set) till the Sherlock series 2 clue words were announced.

 

If you haven't yet seen Series 1, by the way, you have a real treat in store!

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Hi Lauren. Welcome to the Sherlock Forum. A lot of good topics here so come and enjoy.

[itslikelectiveamnesia]

welcome! Im from the US also and don't get british tv really either. ive seen Sherlock on Netflix and I didn't even think about that till just right now haha. im going to have to find it on tv when it comes out now!

[Carol the Dabbler]

It's an interesting experience to watch an-already-familiar-from-DVD Sherlock episode when it (finally!) airs on PBS. The lines and scenes that have been cut feel so very not there!

[Lauren]

After I watched Series 2 I went and got Series 1 on itunes. I'm glad that I didn't have to play MAJOR catch up like I've had to do with Doctor Who, Qi, and Buzzcocks. It's going to take me years to catch up on that last one.