Here's a marvelous interview with series creator Steven Moffat. I have been a fan for years but have never seen him interviewed before. He's *exactly* as I would have imagined him, and that is a compliment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrMClMi0M9Y --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > For the Brits among us, or the pirates, here's a quick > review of the first episode of BBC1's "Sherlock." > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcFHeTaS9ew > > For fans of Conan Doyle's NPD detective, "Sherlock" is > everything that Guy Ritchie's recent "Sherlock Holmes: > A Game Of Shadows" is not -- intelligent, entertaining, > and true to the spirit of the original. > > And that's weird, because the BBC "Sherlock" is updated > to take place in our time, whereas the Guy Ritchie thing > is set in its original time period. But whereas one can > make a case for neither Ritchie, Robert Downey Jr. nor > Jude Law ever having read a single word of a single > Sherlock Holmes story before making their films, one > cannot say the same for Steven Moffat. He's a bit of > a TV wunderkind in Britain, having created "Coupling," and > having done a previous modern-day updating of a classic, > "Jekyll." Moffat just *gets* Sherlock Holmes. > > As a writer he's obviously as clever as his protagonist > himself, and there are laugh-out-loud funny moments in > this first episode from the new season, "A Scandal In > Belgravia." There is also great intelligence -- no need > to fill screen time with special effects and bad martial > arts here. But the real coup is in the casting. > > Only in Britain could an actor named Benedict Cumberbatch > become famous, much less play as famous a character as > Sherlock Holmes. But he does so perfectly. Martin Freeman > does just as well as Dr. Watson. And interestingly, even > though both the Ritchie film and the new BBC series con- > tain the same villainess, Irene Adler, you are likely to > remember the name of only one of the women playing her, > Lara Pulver. > > If you've ever been a fan of Sherlock Holmes but have a > life and don't want to waste your time with a bad version > of him, skip the blockbuster movie and find a way to watch > the BBC1 series. Elementary. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOkLuk3Nx4Q >
