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sherlock60Let's talk telly in the discussion post for Granada's adaptation of The Red-Headed League. If you haven't seen this 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!
- There's just so much to love in this episode. Jeremy Brett is beautiful and sprightly as Holmes, as joyous at solving a bizarre case as he is listening to an afternoon concert. David Burke's Watson is delightful too, especially when he kicks his legs as he and Holmes crack up at Wilson's story. Everything about this episode makes me happy.
- The couch jump! Ah, the couch jump to catch Watson before he leaves without hearing this marvelous, ridiculous case. It's the moment I really fell in love with the character of Sherlock Holmes. I had never thought of him as someone capable of being silly, a bit delightfully whimsical, but he absolutely is here, and in a very authentic way. Jeremy Brett launched himself over the settee, and I realized this character has more facets than a powerful brain and an ability to make connections no one else can. He's also an enthusiastic friend, a lover of humor, and a whimsical soul. He was more human to me than I thought possible before, and that made all the difference.
- You may recognize the man who plays Duncan Ross. It's Richard Wilson, these days better known as Gaius on Merlin. He's the best part of that show in my opinion, and he's total fun here, utterly deadpan as yanks on fistfuls of Jabez Wilson's hair and informs him he'll be rewriting the Encyclopedia Britannica by hand.
- How do you feel about the addition of Moriarty here? It makes sense in a way that the idea for the plot was his -- it's utterly ludicrous, but that was exactly what made it so effective. But this revision certainly reduces the standing of John Clay. Rather than perhaps the third smartest man in London concocting a beyond brilliant scheme, he's simply a capable henchman on a job.
Note: Canon discussion is available in the canon discussion post. Thanks!
- There's just so much to love in this episode. Jeremy Brett is beautiful and sprightly as Holmes, as joyous at solving a bizarre case as he is listening to an afternoon concert. David Burke's Watson is delightful too, especially when he kicks his legs as he and Holmes crack up at Wilson's story. Everything about this episode makes me happy.
- The couch jump! Ah, the couch jump to catch Watson before he leaves without hearing this marvelous, ridiculous case. It's the moment I really fell in love with the character of Sherlock Holmes. I had never thought of him as someone capable of being silly, a bit delightfully whimsical, but he absolutely is here, and in a very authentic way. Jeremy Brett launched himself over the settee, and I realized this character has more facets than a powerful brain and an ability to make connections no one else can. He's also an enthusiastic friend, a lover of humor, and a whimsical soul. He was more human to me than I thought possible before, and that made all the difference.
- You may recognize the man who plays Duncan Ross. It's Richard Wilson, these days better known as Gaius on Merlin. He's the best part of that show in my opinion, and he's total fun here, utterly deadpan as yanks on fistfuls of Jabez Wilson's hair and informs him he'll be rewriting the Encyclopedia Britannica by hand.
- How do you feel about the addition of Moriarty here? It makes sense in a way that the idea for the plot was his -- it's utterly ludicrous, but that was exactly what made it so effective. But this revision certainly reduces the standing of John Clay. Rather than perhaps the third smartest man in London concocting a beyond brilliant scheme, he's simply a capable henchman on a job.
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Sunday, 11 November 2012
Date: 2012-11-12 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-12 03:33 pm (UTC)I heard this news today: Roger Hammond, who played Mr Jabez Wilson in "The Red-Headed League", died November 8th at age of 76.