I enjoyed the first series of Sherlock and was looking forward to the second, but found that it had got far too silly and tricksy. The "Little Man Tate"-esque on-screen text was overdone, and distracting; the camera angles intrusive; and the walk-through sequences of the car-backfiring puzzle were disjointed. All this and more detracted from the excellent character portrayals by the actors, and has made me extremely unlikely to watch the next episode.
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watched the recording last night, better the second time around .... and resolved where i had seen Lara Pulver before ... in Spooks ....According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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I hadn't seen her before, but I'm not averse to seeing her again.Comment
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I must disagree! I for one can't wait for the next episode. I thought they had taken everything that was good about the first series and made it even better. It really was one of the best 90 minutes of television that I've seen for a very long time.Originally posted by Pilchardman View Post
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain.Comment
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Ber-limey salymap - a Digi hard disk thing - how did Santa get that into a house with no chimbley?Originally posted by salymap View PostMorning Anton, yes salymap did enjoy it very much, apart from'Audio Description' on my new Digi hard disk thing which kept switching on and off however hard I tried to get rid of it.
I hope that you'll be very happy together
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Well, there you go. Just shows we're all different.Comment
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I thought it was OTT and totally bonkers, in fact the best episode of Dr. Who I've seen.
I just have a slightly niggly feeling that they might be on the way to being too clever by half and over-egging it. I think Cumberbatch and Freeman are perfectly matched with Freeman being so perfectly normal and ordinary that the dynamics between them work so well. Big splash in next weeks RT about The Hound with Mark Gatiss. It evidently got 10m viewers, so BBC must be pleased.
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More of the same coming up thenOriginally posted by Anna View Post
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Oh, I enjoyed it as a bit of harmless nonsense. However, I don't think I'd watch it again on iplayer. Next episode is written by Mark Gatiss (and has Russell Tovey in it, who I think is good) and the third episode by Stephen Thompson (another Dr. Who writer) It's evidently been sold to 180 countries. A nice little earner for BBC WorldWide. Daily Mail got outraged over the nudity before the watershed and to show their outrage, printed all the nude pics!Originally posted by french frank View PostMore of the same coming up then
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I saw the new film a couple of days before New Year and found the TV and the Film very similar in their approach. By the way I enjoyed them both. Robert Downey jr was really brilliantly barking and I thought Jude Law was a terrific Watson - in fact I thought both Watsons were really good - I liked the all-action approach in both film and TV but agree with previous comment about Fry as Mycroft - can he please be given a holiday. The Moriarty in the film, Jared Harris was particularly good. I'm going to go watch the first film now and wait for more of the TV.Comment
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Comics are not referred to as comics any more, they are now called graphic novels and defined as art. By the same token, programmes like Dr Who and Sherlock have become television drama, rather than the clever clever tosh that they really are.
Taken moment to moment, Sherlock is entertaining enough, but after a while I get tired of the tiresome badinage. Am I alone in wishing that TV would grow up just a little bit ?Comment
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Yes, I'd like more serious drama. I think back to the Dennis Potters (first thing I thought of), unlikely for the BBC to do anything like that now as they look to blockbusters and worldwide sales don't they? It's entertainment, not something you have to think about deeply.Originally posted by Ferretfancy View PostComment
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
I didn't know till the other day that Jared is the son of the sandpaper-voiced Richard Harris..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Sandpaper- voiced Richard Harris?Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I didn't know till the other day that Jared is the son of the sandpaper-voiced Richard Harris...
Voice of an Angel, mate
I've got a bootleg tape of his Winterreise somewhere, with Mrs Mills
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Thrill to his mastery of the recitative and the Da Capo aria here:Originally posted by amateur51 View PostSandpaper- voiced Richard Harris?
Voice of an Angel, mate
I've got a bootleg tape of his Winterreise somewhere, with Mrs Mills
(It's available on "Toe-Curling Tunes" from S-Hits Records)"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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