as i rapidfire cycle through shows, apparently

fresh out of rehab and instantly well known to the cops as a consultant

wonder how he swung that

oh right, they explain that

also the only one where he keeps bees, as far as i know

which is a fun nod to the books

hate to break it to you Holmes but if you have two alarm clocks maybe you're just a night owl

god knows i need three if i want to wake up at a scheduled time

instead of just whenever i happen to wake up

oh fuck offffff, she's clearly just fucking exhausted

OH FUCK OFF WITH THIS MORNING PERSON PROPAGANDA

i forgot how much he harped on this

...i do like how they really highlight how cops don't actually want to solve cases, they just want to stamp a 'solved' on the file and put it away

any Sherlock is definitely strongest in that, where Sherlock can slip in and go 'uh, you're wrong'

'if he's wrong, he's wrong. But i want to know he's wrong'

such a good line

i keep comparing this to BBC Sherlock in my head and i struggle to articulate this properly but

these cases feel more 'real'

even if they're of course exaggerated for the sake of Sherlock solving them

but BBC's feel more ridiculous, just a touch

Sherlock is such a child XD

...but Joan shouldn't have stepped into the whole Irene issue tbh

is that Cuddy

lmao nice it is

gosh, good thing this suspect Sherlock saw on a random talk show just so happens to live in New York City

Moffat has extreme "i am very clever and i have to show everyone how clever i am"itis, so yeah he tends to make the Sherlock cases overcomplicated and overwrought (and sometimes nonsensical because he's prone to outsmarting himself)

yeah, good point

i think the one that sticks out most is Hound of the Baskervilles for whatever reason

but i suppose that one is one of the most well known and popular stories so he probably felt he had to do it justice and overdid it instead

"Moffat felt he had to do it justice and overdid it instead" basically sums up everything he does without adult supervision

very true

anyway as with every time Sherlock Holmes is mentioned i'm just gonna mention how amazingly good the Granada series was

Jeremy Brett <3 <3 <3

i need to finish watching that, yeah

as it happens i think i stopped at Baskervilles

yeah no there... are things that I liked about Sherlock, compared to the Median Contemporary TV Show, but I can't say I liked it very much overall, and definitely not as Sherlock Holmes interpretations go

(as usual with Moffat, the better stuff also tended to be earlier on, when he wasn't as established as showrunner and hadn't gotten far down the spiral of trying to outclever himself)

yeah... his early Who stuff was decent, even if i am slowly starting to detest the standalone stuff he wrote under RTD's direction

(i never liked Midnight)

...yeah I have very mixed feelings about Midnight.

I 100% absolutely stand by The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances and the Library two-parter tho

as time has gone on i think that my main issue with Midnight is twofold: one, he broke the cardinal rule of Doctor Who, which is 'people are inherently good' because literally everyone but one person turned on the Doctor the moment they thought they were all going to die

yes, that's a thing that is also part of human instinct, but this is the wrong show to bring that up on

and two, he broke the cardinal rule of liminal spaces and showed the monster

well, he showed it as in there is a monster at all

yeah it's... it's not completely wrong to touch on it, but to make that the entire theme of the story is... egh...

it could have been so much better

but yeah if you must touch on it there could have been one or two of them who argued for getting rid of him, not the whole damn party

i will agree that the Empty Child and the Library two parters were great

but we can't blame Moffat for Midnight, that's a Rusty baby

i'm torn on Blink because it falls apart if you look at it too hard--oh is it, whoops

...which is also why I was not swept up in the enthusiasm for Rusty coming back

he did some good work but he also did some "nothing else matters as much as making David Tennant make those pretty sad faces" work

yeah...

oooh right, this guy is taking the fall for her

other reasons i like this version of Sherlock: he's willing to admit when he's wrong

it's very refreshing

another thing, thinking about adaptations

i love the RDJ movies, they're so much fun. However.

i really wonder how many modern adaptations took the ideas proposed in the movies and ran with them

Irene Adler being some kind of criminal with deep ties to Moriarty, for example

and also Sherlock experimenting on unsuspecting beings. First a dog in the movies, then Watson in the BBC version

.......yeah for all it's flaws I will definitely take BBC Sherlock over the RDJ movies. >_>

IMO "streetfighting superhero who tries to impress random women by showing off his powers of deduction by guessing wildly for no reason (and being super wrong)" isn't Sherlock Holmes, it's Tony Stark cosplaying as Sherlock Holmes

i mean, fair

lmao i'm so amused that Watson has started picking up Sherlock's habits (stealing evidence)

the other reason i love this adaptation

Bell is also learning how to deduct things

the Sherlock effect is spreading and it's delightful