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Granada Discussion Post: The Priory School
Let's talk telly in the discussion post for Granada's TV adaptation of The Priory School. If you haven't seen this episode yet, you can find it at YouTube and on DVD. Follow me behind the jump for my random thoughts and impressions. Please add your own in the comments!
Canon discussion for The Priory School is available in this week's canon discussion post.
- As presented here, the story is thankfully less disturbing than in text. More urgency by everyone involved helps everything make more sense, although it's still awkward in that Victorian way. Dr. Huxtable at dinner is satisfyingly aghast at the merriment of the people around him, although rather than scold everyone for having fun while a child is suffering, Huxtable complains that they're insulting his "great patron". *sigh* At least James gets what he deserves, and then some. And Holmes' double payment "king's ransom" isn't blood money for silence, but a bonus given out of intense gratitude. Everybody cares more about everything, and that makes a big difference, leading to an actually happy ending that's not creepy at all. Hooray!
- Mrs. Hudson makes a basket full of snacks for our boys on the train. I love her almost as much as Holmes does. <3
- Dr. Watson is a bit hit and miss here at his professional work. Dr. Huxtable comes in and promptly faints dead away on the floor, and Watson tells him he needs to keep quiet and still until he can have something to eat to recover his strength. Huxtable immediately starts jabbering away and standing all the way up instead. Watson just sort of lets it happen, walking away. Holmes is at least there to catch if Huxtable takes another all too likely light-headed tumble, I guess. On the hand, Watson does excellent work as a medical examiner with Heidegger's body, discovering several important clues. The doctor is good with the dead in this episode, but a bit less so with the living.
- Jeremy Brett makes his Holmes compassionate, which is necessary for this delicate case. There is fire in his eyes and anger in his accusations. You can feel the importance and weight of a child's life coming to bear upon him, which is not exactly the case in the canon text. It's good stuff. Also, JB makes me want to start smoking cigarettes just so I can look so sexy while I light them off a candle too. Yum.
Canon discussion for The Priory School is available in this week's canon discussion post.
- As presented here, the story is thankfully less disturbing than in text. More urgency by everyone involved helps everything make more sense, although it's still awkward in that Victorian way. Dr. Huxtable at dinner is satisfyingly aghast at the merriment of the people around him, although rather than scold everyone for having fun while a child is suffering, Huxtable complains that they're insulting his "great patron". *sigh* At least James gets what he deserves, and then some. And Holmes' double payment "king's ransom" isn't blood money for silence, but a bonus given out of intense gratitude. Everybody cares more about everything, and that makes a big difference, leading to an actually happy ending that's not creepy at all. Hooray!
- Mrs. Hudson makes a basket full of snacks for our boys on the train. I love her almost as much as Holmes does. <3
- Dr. Watson is a bit hit and miss here at his professional work. Dr. Huxtable comes in and promptly faints dead away on the floor, and Watson tells him he needs to keep quiet and still until he can have something to eat to recover his strength. Huxtable immediately starts jabbering away and standing all the way up instead. Watson just sort of lets it happen, walking away. Holmes is at least there to catch if Huxtable takes another all too likely light-headed tumble, I guess. On the hand, Watson does excellent work as a medical examiner with Heidegger's body, discovering several important clues. The doctor is good with the dead in this episode, but a bit less so with the living.
- Jeremy Brett makes his Holmes compassionate, which is necessary for this delicate case. There is fire in his eyes and anger in his accusations. You can feel the importance and weight of a child's life coming to bear upon him, which is not exactly the case in the canon text. It's good stuff. Also, JB makes me want to start smoking cigarettes just so I can look so sexy while I light them off a candle too. Yum.