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sherlock60Let's talk telly in the discussion post for Granada's adaptation of The Cardboard Box. 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 my random thoughts and impressions. Please add your own in the comments!
Canon discussion is available in the canon discussion post.
- This episode is Granada's last. It's a gloomy way to go out. The Cardboard Box is one the most depressing endings in canon already with the "What's the meaning of it, Watson?" speech and it's made sadder by poor Jeremy Brett, obviously unwell and short of breath. He died less than two years after this filming.
- The added graverobbing subplot was unexpected. Did it add anything to the episode other than screen time? It stuck out to me that the bodies were being stolen to research boxers who act "punch drunk". That's actually CTE, a chronic brain injury that is the center of a big controversy in many sports these days.
- You've got to love Rosalie Williams as Mrs. Hudson. She's terrific, giving Holmes hints for Watson's Christmas present, and standing up to him when she needs to. "I do dare."
- Speaking of that Christmas present, it turns out to be an enormous green poncho, which Watson professes to love for its usability on a bicycle. Holmes is pleased with the outcome. Personally, I'd recommend the doctor see if that store Mrs. Hudson suggested takes exchanges.
- I kind of loved the awkward scene of Susan trying to seduce Jim Browner. The contrivance of folding a sheet as an elaborate attempt at a come-on made me laugh.
- Holmes is sympathetic to Browner and longs for the leniency of French law for him after his confession. But does it really count as a lesser crime of passion when a man takes the time after a double murder to slice his victims' ears off then later send them through the post as a previously warned threat?
Canon discussion is available in the canon discussion post.
- This episode is Granada's last. It's a gloomy way to go out. The Cardboard Box is one the most depressing endings in canon already with the "What's the meaning of it, Watson?" speech and it's made sadder by poor Jeremy Brett, obviously unwell and short of breath. He died less than two years after this filming.
- The added graverobbing subplot was unexpected. Did it add anything to the episode other than screen time? It stuck out to me that the bodies were being stolen to research boxers who act "punch drunk". That's actually CTE, a chronic brain injury that is the center of a big controversy in many sports these days.
- You've got to love Rosalie Williams as Mrs. Hudson. She's terrific, giving Holmes hints for Watson's Christmas present, and standing up to him when she needs to. "I do dare."
- Speaking of that Christmas present, it turns out to be an enormous green poncho, which Watson professes to love for its usability on a bicycle. Holmes is pleased with the outcome. Personally, I'd recommend the doctor see if that store Mrs. Hudson suggested takes exchanges.
- I kind of loved the awkward scene of Susan trying to seduce Jim Browner. The contrivance of folding a sheet as an elaborate attempt at a come-on made me laugh.
- Holmes is sympathetic to Browner and longs for the leniency of French law for him after his confession. But does it really count as a lesser crime of passion when a man takes the time after a double murder to slice his victims' ears off then later send them through the post as a previously warned threat?
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