30 Days of Sherlock Holmes
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capt_facepalmDay 03 – Your Favorite Adapted Story
There are elements of A Study in Scarlet that appear in the new BBC Sherlock adaptation that make me squee. On my first viewing of A Study in Pink (and this was back before the DVD and I was watching it in 10 minute YouTube segments, so there was no help from the commentary) I noticed the takeaway coffee was from the Criterion Bar. Little details like that amuse me. Very, very much. I also very much liked the handling of Rache-Rachel. Brilliant!
I cannot comment on the Granada series because I have not seen it all. (I have the whole set, and from what I have seen of it, I like it very much, but I have yet not had the time to set a viewing schedule.)
But as much as I enjoy them, my favourite adaptation (so far) has to be the BBC's 2002 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart. Although it deviated from the canon to accentuate the drama and action, it still provided the wonderful essential elements. Stapleton was a most insidiously slimey villain, the music and the cinematography cast an eerie setting, and we finally get a Watson that we can believe in. (More on that in Day 5, I believe!) Holmes was his brilliant and infuriating self, and Lestrade is treated like the hard-working professional policeman that he would have to had been.
For more details, here is its link at IMDB. Check your local library for availability!
There are elements of A Study in Scarlet that appear in the new BBC Sherlock adaptation that make me squee. On my first viewing of A Study in Pink (and this was back before the DVD and I was watching it in 10 minute YouTube segments, so there was no help from the commentary) I noticed the takeaway coffee was from the Criterion Bar. Little details like that amuse me. Very, very much. I also very much liked the handling of Rache-Rachel. Brilliant!
I cannot comment on the Granada series because I have not seen it all. (I have the whole set, and from what I have seen of it, I like it very much, but I have yet not had the time to set a viewing schedule.)
But as much as I enjoy them, my favourite adaptation (so far) has to be the BBC's 2002 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart. Although it deviated from the canon to accentuate the drama and action, it still provided the wonderful essential elements. Stapleton was a most insidiously slimey villain, the music and the cinematography cast an eerie setting, and we finally get a Watson that we can believe in. (More on that in Day 5, I believe!) Holmes was his brilliant and infuriating self, and Lestrade is treated like the hard-working professional policeman that he would have to had been.
For more details, here is its link at IMDB. Check your local library for availability!
