oh well, gotta keep on movin. so fuck yeah the new sherlock holmes show is great. because it's a man's show about men being men, reminds me of a lot of great tv from the 90s that were about clever men going toe to toe with other clever men. live action wise, i'd have to mention x-files, pretender, fresh prince of bell air, etc. it's endless. todays tv sucks sorry.
so it's csi but with sherlock holmes instead of some know it all science cop or lawyer like in law and order. Having read holmes all my life i of course had to see if they got it right and besides the main actor being kind of baby-face-ish, they nailed it. Holmes seems to solve the mystery before he even knew it existed, perfectly accurate. I can't wait to see him whoop moriarty's ass.
they should make this a real regular series instead of a miniseries event thing, but alas, whatever... good tv can't be taken for granted. a lot of people compare him to house, probably right, but i hate house, complete prick, and extremely unprofessional in a medical environment to be acting so childishly belligerent, and besides that he's got nothing going on, no friends, no humanity, he's mr. bad attitude and that's all she wrote. holmes in the new show admits he doesn't care about the victims in the crimes he solves he's in it for the challenge, but at the same time, he seems to actually sort of treasure having someone to talk to about his mysteries even if he's only usuing watson as an outside ear or possible second opinion. wow, actual character, he's not just some robot. and that's what i like about this new holmes.
that makes me kind of actually care about whether he's got the goods to take on someone on his level, when the character's just this invincible super freak with no flaws, he gets boring. Like they kind of made a big deal out of whether holmes would give a shit if moriarty killed watson. it's left ambiguous whether holmes did or didn't care. I like that. Even if they eventually make holmes out to truly be a ruthless super genius, at least they didn't make him seem completely inhuman.
so the series cliffjhanger comes to a stalemate as holmes threatens to kill himself and moriarty at the same time. got to say i like how the guy plays moriarty as kind of this sick bizarro version of sherlock, he's not BAD, or the devil, he's just sherlock if he was a criminal, simple, kind of like the natural consequence of sherlock even existing is that if he exists so does his opposite. Of course sherlock won't shoot the gun, and of course moriarty won't kill sherlock, they need each other. very interesting what the future will bring from this series.
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