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sherlock60Let's talk telly in the discussion post for Granada's TV adaptation of The Bruce-Partington Plans. 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 for The Bruce-Partington Plans is available in this week's canon discussion post.
- Is Holmes is really singing a motet here, or at least part of one? Motets are what he's studying in the text: medieval music composed of layered voices that cannot be recreated with instruments. For Holmes to study it, he would have to sing or imagine each part of the music and blend them together in his mind.
- Did you notice Mycroft has forgotten Watson's name?
- Bradstreet is so cute smirking at Mycroft's ramble about the pointlessness of the police cases.
- The reveal that the window shutters leave space to look through is severely diminished by the fact the windows in the episode are frosted and impossible to see through.
- Lines I love in this: "We're not brothers for nothing." "He writes like a drunken crab." "I always said you'd be the best catburglar in the business if you put your mind to it."
- Holmes tipping his hat up with his cane is very cool in a "Puttin' on the Ritz" sort of way.
- While Mycroft has the most to do here, I especially adore Mrs. Hudson in this episode. I love how nonchalant she is. In her nightclothes with her hair braided back, she helps Watson get ready. The gun in his hands doesn't give her even a flinch. All she does is wrap him in his coat and tell him to be careful and to watch out for Holmes knowing well the detective's too captivated by the scent of the case to be safe himself.
Canon discussion for The Bruce-Partington Plans is available in this week's canon discussion post.
- Is Holmes is really singing a motet here, or at least part of one? Motets are what he's studying in the text: medieval music composed of layered voices that cannot be recreated with instruments. For Holmes to study it, he would have to sing or imagine each part of the music and blend them together in his mind.
- Did you notice Mycroft has forgotten Watson's name?
- Bradstreet is so cute smirking at Mycroft's ramble about the pointlessness of the police cases.
- The reveal that the window shutters leave space to look through is severely diminished by the fact the windows in the episode are frosted and impossible to see through.
- Lines I love in this: "We're not brothers for nothing." "He writes like a drunken crab." "I always said you'd be the best catburglar in the business if you put your mind to it."
- Holmes tipping his hat up with his cane is very cool in a "Puttin' on the Ritz" sort of way.
- While Mycroft has the most to do here, I especially adore Mrs. Hudson in this episode. I love how nonchalant she is. In her nightclothes with her hair braided back, she helps Watson get ready. The gun in his hands doesn't give her even a flinch. All she does is wrap him in his coat and tell him to be careful and to watch out for Holmes knowing well the detective's too captivated by the scent of the case to be safe himself.
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