besleybean wrote:

Tho he did say he couldn't go back to the flat...obviously soembody's been living there or something is gonna happen there, pretty soon!

Well he did say that he couldn't go back at the moment. He just needed some time to process I think.
 

Thanks SusiGo, 
I'll look the site over and see if I can find a DVD set that will play in Region 1. That is the biggest problem getting dvds from a different region. I had the same problem when I fell in ove with BBCs Merlin. Trying to get a DVD that would play on an American machine. Then Nextflix started to carry it so I stopped trying to find a set in the correct region.

besleybean wrote:

Well I don't think she's supposed to be any older than Sherlock.
Do you mean Irene was made up to look older?
Or are you saying Lara looked older?

I have no idea if the actress looks older than she actually is or if the make up was done that way, but I thought the whole time that she was older than Sherlock - more Mycroft's age. I wondered why the dominatrix wasn't someone younger, but then thought that maybe an older woman is the one who would have the maturity to pull off knicking all those secrets and have the restraint to hold them for protection only.
 

I would watch because I would trust the powers that be to choose the correct chemistry to make the show work. This is actually easy for me to answer because until I saw this show I had no idea who Benedict Cumberbatcgh was. Being from America we don't get to see a lot of the British talent. It is one of the reason I like British programs so much. It is nice to see new faces and new talent.

Now that I know who this guy is and what his scope is, I am looking forward to the new Star Trek movie to see how he does with the role of Khan. I remember thinking when I first heard the role he was playing in that movie, really??? I mean he is a great Sherlock, but Khan is a big beefy burly man, and Sherlock is kind of lanky and bony. Then I found out that the actor lost a bunch of weight to play the role of Sherlock and that he is normally quite well built, so now I am really interested to see what this fellow looks like with some meat on his bones.

Davina wrote:

September will be better than July or August to be honest. The weather is often really nice, Indian Summer. The children are all back in school by then as well. October is often really nice as well and you get the wonderful changes of leaf colour then too.

The moors are definitely worth a visit. I have close relatives who run a Bed and Big Breakfast, literally on the edge of Exmoor, in a 16th Century thatched cottage. . I can PM you their details if you are interested (is this advertising? I hope not...I'm a Moderator).


The restructuring sounds very much like what is happening in all sorts of areas of the economy here.

You are helping a fellow forum member have a nice visit to your homeland. I don't see that as advertising. Yes please do PM me the info.

besleybean wrote:

2 words= Paul McGuigan.

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SusiGo wrote:

Regarding the cabbie scene: Benedict played it very well, nevertheless I prefer the aired version for a simple reason - in this he's much more active, he makes his deductions, he seems superior, which is all in character - and then he does this thing with the pill. They show his strengthts and his weaknesses in one and the same scene. Brilliant. 

I agree with you both. I much preferred the pill scene with a sober Sherlock. That was a bit that I think they improved with the final version. Playing mind games with drugged people isn't clever at all. Really? So yeah, the final version of that idea worked really well. I just really liked BC's drugged performance. It's too bad they couldn't figure a way to use that.

See that's just it, there are bits and pieces of both versions that I really liked. John's answer to Sherlock's question - is he okay, he did just kill a man was far superior in the pilot, as was the concept of not knowing right away who shot the cabbie, but having Sherlock go with the cabbie willingly was better than him being drugged and abducted.

The chase scene in the final version was better than John dashing after the cab for half a block. The cute little bistro in the pilot was better than the diner like atmosphere in the final version, but the rest of the sets in the final version were better than in the pilot.

There is just so much to like about both. It's like being a kid in a candy store with enough to buy only some of the stuff you want and having to pick and choose.
 
 

This is an interesting thread. It invites a hard Sherlockian look at yourself. Hmmm.

Well lets see. If Sherlock were to come in and see me sitting here, I would naturally stand up to greet him. That is when the deduction would begin.

The first thing he would notice is the fact that it takes a moment for me to rise up to my full height, moving with a small amount of stiffness. He might notice a slight limp favoring the left leg. He would immediately see that I am older than I want to appear as the grey roots are beginning to show again. He would see laugh lines around the mouth, wrinkles forming along the forehead and crows feet around the eyes confirming that my age is greater than it would appear at first glance. The dark circles under my eyes and the fact that even though it is morning, I look ready to sleep, I must work the night shift. 

As I hold out my hand to shake his he would note how rough and weathered the skin is, while also noting the short cut nails devoid of adornment and that my hands are very clean. He might deduce that the skin has become weathered and dry due to excessive washing possibly with an astringic substance. The absence of any make-up or perfume coupled with the night shift and the fact that I wear my long hair pulled back from my face he would surmise that I may work in the medical field. My shoes are clearly worn, especially around the outside of the soles, indicating that I walk a lot which would support his deduction of work in the medical field, most likely in a hospital for where else would one be on their feet during shift, wash their hands excessively with a strong soap all during the night shift? 

He would look around the room (I'm currently in the dining room) and note the children's artwork on the wall and the toys scattered about and deduce that I am a proud mother of at least two children. He would correct that deduction to three children upon inspection of the family calendar on the wall behind me as the child's name

veecee wrote:

IdigN1, don't worry. We love you guys! (How American is that?)

There's certainly plenty in the program for men: action, fistfights, swordfights, gunshots, explosions, intrigue, guys making fun of each other, techno gadgets, beautiful babes, cars, chases, blood... Oops! Am I stereotyping?

Anyway, should we figure out how to get more of them on the forum, or just let it roll?

You just described my favorite kinds of movies and TV shows! Oh yeah I'm a girl, an older one at that even. I can't stand chick flicks or love scenes. I do love D&D films. (Death and Destruction) My daughter's boyfriend thinks I'm 'the bomb'! LOL She keeps trying to drag him to films that no teenaged boy would be caught dead watching! He's a great boyfriend though, because he goes.

Over the years I have found that many of these kinds of forums are heavily populated with women/girls. Fan fiction authors are predominately women. Not all of them of course, but you will find that the stats mirror what we see in this poll.

Hello,

I thought I'd ask for a bit of advice here. My husband and I are going to take a 2.5 week trip to Europe this summer for our 20th anniversary. The travel agency we are going to use plans trips to multiple countries based on cities of interest that are covered in their travel areas. Not all cities are covered. He plugged in a couple of cities that he had seen when in the navy but since there was not regular train service to those cities they were not included.

So we need to decide what cities/countries we want to visit. The advice comes in here. Many of you are from different parts of Europe and I would like some input from you as to what is a must see, verses what might be something to either to avoid or not to bother with. This will be the only trip I can take to Europe in my lifetime so I want to make the most of it.

One of the places I thought I'd like to go is Cardiff since that is where they film shows like Dr. Who. My daughter even found something on-line called "The Doctor Who Experience" I don't know if Cardiff is one of the cities covered, but it sounded like a good idea. I know that we will most likely spend a couple of days in London since we will be flying into Heathrow. Are all the typical touristy things worth the time? - like Big Ben, The London Tower, Buckingham Palace etc...

I have been warned away from France by two people who took trips to Europe. I thought that it might be nice to see Paris, but both of these folks told me that the French do not like like Americans and that we will be treated rudely if we go. I'm not sure I believe that. 

Germany will probably be one of our stops, so what is an area we may want to explore there? Same question for Switzerland. I think he also wants to go to Greece and/or Spain. Personally I would love to see the Highlands of Scotland. One of my favorite movies was Highlander if only for the gorgeous cinematography. Of course big burly men playing around with broadswords wasn't too hard on my sensibili

I know that in the canon of the books, Sherlock Holmes used drugs. I also know that in ASiP Sherlock had a suspicious reaction to the ‘fake’ drugs bust eluding to the fact that he has at some point used elicit drugs. In the pilot he even comes right out and says it. The cabbie asks if he likes drugs and Sherlock replies, “Not in awhile.”

All of this seems very contradictory to some of the other BBC Sherlock canon statements. Sherlock is all about his mind and using it to parse out the truth of a situation. In TGG he describes his mind as his “hard drive and that ordinary people fill their heads with all kinds of rubbish and that makes it hard to get at the stuff that’s really important.” He becomes extremely agitated with John insisting that he can’t believe Sherlock doesn’t know simple primary school knowledge and starts yelling that “All that matters to me is the work. Without that my brain rots.”  

In THoB he is quite literally freaked out by seeing the hound. It makes him doubt himself and that is a very uncomfortable situation for Sherlock not to mention something he has never experienced before. He knows that he saw the beast, but logically he couldn’t have. He says, “I’ve always been able to trust my senses, the evidence of my own eyes, until last night.” He came right out and said that he has never experienced doubt of his senses before. That tells me that he has never used drugs due to how they effect the function of those very same senses.

Given this about BBC Sherlock, it seems to me that taking drugs that alter one’s perception would be almost offensive to a man like him. He relies on his abilities to observe everything around him. His brain automatically takes it all in and begins to categorize all that input. Anyone could understand that the use of drugs would be a way to shut that off for a little while, but going by how BBC Sherlock describes himself and the workings of his mind, I don't really see him choosing to