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sherlock60Let's talk telly in the discussion post for Granada's adaptation of The Resident Patient. If you haven't seen the episode yet, you can find it at YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Video, and DVD. Follow me behind the jump for some of my random thoughts and impressions. Please add your own in the comments!
Note: Canon discussion is available in the canon discussion post. Thanks!
- Do you read the story first before you watch the episode? I always do, although I think we have several people going the other way around. You can see the use of the original text and discover what is preserved and what is lost both ways. What's your preference and why?
- What did you make of Blessington's -- or should I say Sutton's nightmare opening the episode? Suitably bizarre. The effect used while he wakes up is particularly weird and effective. It's definitely out there. Sutton... Sutton! Suttttooooonnn!
- Holmes and Watson are absolutely adorable together here as the best of friends. Granada is wonderful for its vivid, fun portrayal of the friendship side of their partnership and we get a lot of that here, as Burke's Watson tries his hand again at deduction, they share a laugh, and they walk arm-in-arm down the street. When investigating, Watson peeks over Holmes' shoulder to read, and they theorize together that evening at the end of the bannister. All warm and charming and still very much in character. Pitch-perfect.
- The scene where Holmes stalks Blessington's bedroom investigating is particularly interesting. There's no music for the sequence, nor any dialogue. All you can hear is Holmes, touching, searching, sniffing out the truth. Jeremy Brett is terrific here, acting almost entirely with his eyes, which is fantastic. You can watch him imagining, thinking, conceiving an idea in his mind. No other skill is more important for an actor playing Sherlock Holmes and Jeremy Brett is brilliant at it.
- I love the credit sequence at the end, where Watson and Holmes (through his violin) debate about the best title. It's a bit hinted at by the line "the Brook Street Mystery, as it was called" from the end of the canon story, and it's another cute little character piece in an episode with many of them.
Note: Canon discussion is available in the canon discussion post. Thanks!
- Do you read the story first before you watch the episode? I always do, although I think we have several people going the other way around. You can see the use of the original text and discover what is preserved and what is lost both ways. What's your preference and why?
- What did you make of Blessington's -- or should I say Sutton's nightmare opening the episode? Suitably bizarre. The effect used while he wakes up is particularly weird and effective. It's definitely out there. Sutton... Sutton! Suttttooooonnn!
- Holmes and Watson are absolutely adorable together here as the best of friends. Granada is wonderful for its vivid, fun portrayal of the friendship side of their partnership and we get a lot of that here, as Burke's Watson tries his hand again at deduction, they share a laugh, and they walk arm-in-arm down the street. When investigating, Watson peeks over Holmes' shoulder to read, and they theorize together that evening at the end of the bannister. All warm and charming and still very much in character. Pitch-perfect.
- The scene where Holmes stalks Blessington's bedroom investigating is particularly interesting. There's no music for the sequence, nor any dialogue. All you can hear is Holmes, touching, searching, sniffing out the truth. Jeremy Brett is terrific here, acting almost entirely with his eyes, which is fantastic. You can watch him imagining, thinking, conceiving an idea in his mind. No other skill is more important for an actor playing Sherlock Holmes and Jeremy Brett is brilliant at it.
- I love the credit sequence at the end, where Watson and Holmes (through his violin) debate about the best title. It's a bit hinted at by the line "the Brook Street Mystery, as it was called" from the end of the canon story, and it's another cute little character piece in an episode with many of them.
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