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Post by welshdragon on Jan 5, 2012 11:22:32 GMT
. I love Mrs. Hudson and her "boys", the scene in her kitchen was sweet. I struggle slightly with Una Stubbs as Mrs Hudson - she's very good but she will forever be Aunt Sally from Wurzel Gummidge to me! (Showing my age now!!) |
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Post by kissmekate on Jan 5, 2012 11:25:15 GMT
;D There are some rules certain actors can never shake, aren't there?  |
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Post by fzen1988 on Jan 5, 2012 14:48:40 GMT
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Post by anglophile on Jan 5, 2012 16:44:27 GMT
I have a question. I am reluctant to try to download the site mentioned since my laptop is cranky and i can't do that kind of thing at work on my super-duper computer -- which is why i need a totally new job, don't you think? -- but I remember seeing the first season for sale in a BBC catalogue. It seems to me the price was between $40 and $60. So my question is, will it be worth the money? I'm feeling positive about it since you've commented so favorably on the humor, but I'm also debating whether that money would be better spent helping me buy a ticket to LA so I can hang out in some spot Rufus might walk past. Please advise quickly. I'm getting older every day.
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Post by kissmekate on Jan 5, 2012 18:07:10 GMT
I thought the first season was very good. The second episode was a little weaker than the other two but still very suspenseful and funny. There's a copy at Amazon at $22.99  |
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Post by ophelia on Jan 5, 2012 20:52:36 GMT
I am turning into a Cumberb*tch. Totally in love with Benedict but Mr Sewell will always have my heart but Benedict is tasty. I read that he has confessed to being a complete tart. My kind of man. Hoping Benedict and Rufus work again in the future. Maybe a remake of Sleuth. That would be perfect. Loved the first episode last week. The second is going to be a cunning updated version of perhaps the most famous Sherlock Holmes story. The Hound of the Baskervilles. They have said this will be the tensest, scariest and most atomospheric Sherlock episode so far. Look forward to Sunday and sad to think after this episode, there will only be one more left in the series.  Love a Rooftopper first and a Cumberb*tch second  |
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Post by joyceinva on Jan 9, 2012 18:08:00 GMT
Thought the episode last night was excellent - a very good way to update the Baskerville legend. I love the way the humor is worked in to the episodes, even a suspenseful one like the Hound. It's very natural, growing out of the characters. their behavior, their little quirks. One of my favorite bits was the part about Lestrade's first name. The only thing that I do find a bit annoying is the running joke that people think that Sherlock and Watson are a couple.
Looking forward to the next (And is also the last? Are they only doing three again?) episode. It looked like Sherlock was going to have another run-in with Moriarity.
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Post by francesca on Jan 9, 2012 19:29:48 GMT
I fell asleep in the middle of last night's episode .
In spite of all the noise.
And yup the couple joke is irritating .
Men do share flats and work together without being a couple.
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Post by ophelia on Jan 15, 2012 23:11:55 GMT
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Post by ruthie2910 on Jan 16, 2012 9:54:57 GMT
I absolutely loved the first series and couldn't wait for the second one, however, IMHO the first two episodes were good but lacked the edge of the first three..........until the one last night!  OMG, it was brilliant with twists and turns all the way through, the writers have pulled out the stops for this one! |
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Post by joyceinva on Jan 16, 2012 15:47:58 GMT
The cliffhanger last night was amazing. They did give you a few hints as to how Sherlock was going to pull it off, but it was still a bit of a shocker.
Now, I can only hope that the first episode of series 3 doesn't let us down. As I said above, the resolution to the cliffhanger on series one was totally lame.
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Post by anyother on Jan 16, 2012 18:57:50 GMT
Let's hope there is a third series, there has to be, but we all know how disappointing decisions can be made at the BBC. I'm suffering from mild Sherlock-withdrawal symptoms right now, this second series really got me hooked. Poor John Watson.
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Post by anglophile on Jan 16, 2012 19:47:51 GMT
well, you've pushed me over the edge.  I'm ordering the first season series from my new best friend Amazon and will hope and pray I can see the second one some way soon. At another site I happened across the other day, there was a photo of a totally nude woman and some rather suggestive information about her role in the sherlock holmes series. I was sort of stunned this nudity and this topic -- there was a reference to her being a dominatrix hired to 'tend to' a member of the royal family) was on regular TV, I suppose, but then, I'm a puritan (you could tell that about me couldn't you? please say yes. It will make me feel like a more wholesome grandmother.) |
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jan 16, 2012 20:59:09 GMT
At another site I happened across the other day, there was a photo of a totally nude woman and some rather suggestive information about her role in the sherlock holmes series. I was sort of stunned this nudity and this topic -- there was a reference to her being a dominatrix hired to 'tend to' a member of the royal family) was on regular TV The Beeb took a bit of flak for that, Anglo - not the dominatrix bit or the implication of the Royal Family, but the fact the nudity (such as it was - tastefully done) was shown before the 9pm watershed here. A big no-no.  Anyway, I have to say, much as I enjoyed this series, I don't think it was quite as good as the first. Sherlock was quirky first time around, this time he was downright irritating at times. And, much as I enjoyed last night's finale (and I really did, despite what I'm about to say), there were a few things in it that spoiled it for me: 1 - Moriarty breaches security at three ultra-high security sites, and his trial is held within six weeks??! That just never happens, not with that type of offence. 2 - the Judge directed the jury to return a "not guilty" verdict???!!! The only time that happens is when the trial has to be stopped for lack of evidence, never just because the defence doesn't call any. 3 - why didn't Sherlock query why "Richard Brooke", who was supposedly an actor on TV, wasn't recognised and therefore Moriarty's identity questioned? The trial was plastered across all the papers! Yes, I know that was all a bluff, but it doesn't alter the fact that Sherlock should have queried that. Yes, this is all nitpickety, but it was also sloppy writing on behalf of Steve Thompson, and for me it detracted from the brilliance of the story overall. Oh, one last quibble....... ***SPOILER ALERT***v v v v v v v v - how the heck can Sherlock have survived being splatted all over the pavement like that?! <gets down off soap-box> By the way, it's already got the green light for a third series - it was apparently commissioned at the same time as the second: www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16573066 |
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Post by Petruchio - Good God on Jan 17, 2012 9:20:50 GMT
I haven't seen it yet, but I will do it immediately  |
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