It is a great show, at first I was not really into it because of Bellisario and his tendency to the american army, with Jag some of the episodes looked like recruiting-shows. And in the first seasons of NCIS some of the political backgrounds for the stories got a little bit out of reality. But that got better in fact it got so good that the army did let go of the series.
And the storytelling got so grab with all the jokes going on it is now a real treat to watch the show.

I must admit that my taste is a little bit wider than most people.
I like the blues but I a also into rock, heavy metal, prog, jazz, punk
I did not get it with classical music and I do not like techno and rap.

As an instrument I love guitars.

Therefor my favorite bands are Govn´t Mule, Eric Clapton, Metallica, Rush, TransAtlantic, Cream, Die Ärzte, Die Fantastischen Vier, ...

So what is your choice of music?

Hello Wimsey welcome on board.
Are you by any chance not only a fan of A. C. Doyle but also a fan of Dorothy L. Sayers? I had to think "Lord Peter Wimsey" when I read your name.

A Pocket Knife?
But in England these days that would be not a good idea, my relatives there cold not laugh when I showed mine.

Sammy wrote:

I can totally picture him from the ACD stories although in the canon he is supposed to be quite corpulent. But it's much nicer that way anyway, isn't it? ;)
I'm also very interested in his character, in so many points he's very alike to Sherlock and then again so different. Would love to know what their childhood looked like.

Yes in the canon Mycroft is corpulent, that is because he did not like Legwork ;) and he was evan more intelligent than Sherlock. I think he nearly never got out of his flat or the Diogenes Club.

For the childhood of these two, there is a reason for looking at people like that, I think it was a violent childhood. It is self-protection if you want to find out what people think or do next. And than they discovered that they can use it to earn money.

Or their parents did not function and they had to do all the stuff to survive and so they start to read the adults to get around. They also needed it to not stick out of the mass of people.

sorry I never heard from Dirk Gently but at first I thought of George Gently played by Martin Shaw. I really liked it. :-D
But I also liked "the Professionals".

So I have find my way to this part of the web.
I am from Germany and as some of you I am fighting with my school english. I started to read Sherlock in german in a children's version when I got my first Sherlock-book in english I was not able to read it. It took me until I was 30 to read it and I have to blame Jeremy Brett that I got the understanding of the victorian english.
So I learned a lot with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson and they are the ones who got me interested in all sorts of crime literature and TV-shows.