Elementary Housekeeping
Sep. 4th, 2012 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
netgirl_y2kThis evening I have done something of a cut of my LJ f-list, and this is because, well, I just don't love you as I once did. No, not really, I did it because I had ended up following a bunch of duplicate journals on both LJ & DW and I'm trying to streamline things somewhat. If I've cut you in error and you don't actually crosspost please do tell me at once. Also, I think I've used the f-lock option all of twice in my many years on LJ, so please feel free to read, comment, filter or scroll by in whichever venue you happen to feel comfiest.
Speaking of DW, whichever lovely soul gifted me the paid time, you have enabled me to continue to have more icons of Katie McGrath than any sane person really needs, and for that I thank you :-)
Oh, the other thing is that I've had to disallow anonymous comments on both sites because of a proliferation of spambots, sorry.
Right, now that all the boring stuff is out of the way, I watched the leaked pilot of Elementary and I thought it was really rather marvellous, and not only because of Lucy Liu's face.
It's probably worth mentioning that I am absolutely no judge on how it works as a Sherlock Holmes adaption, I read a couple of the books when I was a kid (Hound of the Baskervilles and one of the short story collections if anyone's curious) and they left absolutely no impression on me, I haven't seen the Guy Ritchie films, and I made it through only enough of the BBC version to be sure that Lara Pulver wasn't going to take her clothes back off. In fact, my only feeling on it as a reimagining is that any show that has the option of being the homosocial adventures of two straight guys and then does Anything Else At All gains a certain amount of goodwill from me before it's done anything else. So, that's the angle I'm coming at it from.
I think, as a procedural, it will be something better than serviceable, and possibly quite special. It looks great, the acting is top-notch, the mystery was clever, and it has Lucy Liu. Johnny Lee Miller's Sherlock is awkwardly charming and impressively clever, and so far lacking in the dickishness that can so easily creep into these cleverest person in the room characters.
In conclusion, I liked it a lot and hope it does really well, and no longer just for reasons of schadenfreude.
Speaking of DW, whichever lovely soul gifted me the paid time, you have enabled me to continue to have more icons of Katie McGrath than any sane person really needs, and for that I thank you :-)
Oh, the other thing is that I've had to disallow anonymous comments on both sites because of a proliferation of spambots, sorry.
Right, now that all the boring stuff is out of the way, I watched the leaked pilot of Elementary and I thought it was really rather marvellous, and not only because of Lucy Liu's face.
It's probably worth mentioning that I am absolutely no judge on how it works as a Sherlock Holmes adaption, I read a couple of the books when I was a kid (Hound of the Baskervilles and one of the short story collections if anyone's curious) and they left absolutely no impression on me, I haven't seen the Guy Ritchie films, and I made it through only enough of the BBC version to be sure that Lara Pulver wasn't going to take her clothes back off. In fact, my only feeling on it as a reimagining is that any show that has the option of being the homosocial adventures of two straight guys and then does Anything Else At All gains a certain amount of goodwill from me before it's done anything else. So, that's the angle I'm coming at it from.
I think, as a procedural, it will be something better than serviceable, and possibly quite special. It looks great, the acting is top-notch, the mystery was clever, and it has Lucy Liu. Johnny Lee Miller's Sherlock is awkwardly charming and impressively clever, and so far lacking in the dickishness that can so easily creep into these cleverest person in the room characters.
In conclusion, I liked it a lot and hope it does really well, and no longer just for reasons of schadenfreude.