Sunday, December 26, 2010

Sherlock BBC 2010

Remember the Sherlock Holmes movie in 2009 starring Robert Downey Jr? Well this series (3 episodes per season, 1 season so far) is something of that sort. I found it by accident as i was trolling the web for something cosplay related, odd, i have no idea how that connects. Anyway, i just love this series as much as i loved the movie. Of course they have no connection to each other, other than the fact that they're both about Sherlock Holmes. This version stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson.

There are some notable differences at first, like the relationship between holmes and Watson, in the movie, Watson is in his own way independant of thought and can decipher things on his own. A change from the sidekick who knows nothing version always portrayed. Here, in the series watson can't figure out how holmes came to a certain conclusion. Why? Because in the series the first episode they just met each other. In the movie, they've been friends for years. On the series, watson is still trying to get used to Holmes, dashing off here and there, so he does get a bit irritated with Holmes. Holmes here is, from what i've seen so far, as ingenius as ever, with a touch of arrogance. He often insults the people around him for their lack of intelligence. Here's one, "Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains? It must be boring" And another one where he insults the police detective.


S: Shut up
D: I didn’t say anything
S: No, you were thinking, it’s annoying.

Ok i'm just loving his character! The sarcasm is hillarious! Owh and i forgot to mention, it's set in modern London, so you have the updated version of everything. The ever famous address 221b Baker Street

For people in Malaysia, we won't be seeing this on television anytime soon, nope, we don't have the BBC one channel on astro, so you'll just have to download the episodes. So far i've downloaded 2/3, the third one is downloading right at this moment. The next season is only coming out in Fall 2011, that is September.....T.T. I'm excited as there's an episode entitles Irene Adler. For those who watched the movie, she's was Sherlock's love interest. So who says the BBC can't make anything interesting anymore eh? I like a few of their productions, Sherlock of course, and i've been trying to get my hands on the Tess of D'Urbervilles version they did just recently, and the old version of Hamlet, 4 hours long, but the best.

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