I love Sherlock, but it has all kinds of fail in it, and it hurts me sometimes.
I enjoy the plot of Elementary more, which always wraps up neatly without me going 'wait, what?' about an hour later, but enjoy the character interactions on Sherlock more. Sherlock has the benefit of being 90 minutes, so it has time to breathe and show things like the Christmas party scene or Sherlock freaking out in Hounds. Elementary only has 45 minutes to tell a story, and once the mystery is done, the character stuff doesn't have as much room.
It took me a while to get into Brett!Holmes, because I found the pacing quite slow, but I have been catching up since then and enjoying them. His Holmes is delightfully cheeky, though I must admit to not caring for either Watson particularly, though Hardwicke matches my Watson better than Burke.
Have you seen the Hound of the Baskerville with Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart? It's one of my favourite adaptations, and on screen Holmes and Watson pairings.
I think JLM's Holmes is much closer to my own mental picture of Holmes than BC's, although it took me a while to get past some things—his tattoos and sex life being two of my chief obstacles.
I can justify the tattoos by canon!Holmes being very fascinated by them, and maybe in modern times when they are no longer only sported by sailors and prisoners, he might be inclined to experiment with them. But the sex life is still just screaming 'we need a romance!' to me. I'd like to see Watson dating a bit more. Book!Watson was always very appreciative of the opposite sex, after all.
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Date: 2013-05-28 12:00 am (UTC)I enjoy the plot of Elementary more, which always wraps up neatly without me going 'wait, what?' about an hour later, but enjoy the character interactions on Sherlock more. Sherlock has the benefit of being 90 minutes, so it has time to breathe and show things like the Christmas party scene or Sherlock freaking out in Hounds. Elementary only has 45 minutes to tell a story, and once the mystery is done, the character stuff doesn't have as much room.
It took me a while to get into Brett!Holmes, because I found the pacing quite slow, but I have been catching up since then and enjoying them. His Holmes is delightfully cheeky, though I must admit to not caring for either Watson particularly, though Hardwicke matches my Watson better than Burke.
Have you seen the Hound of the Baskerville with Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart? It's one of my favourite adaptations, and on screen Holmes and Watson pairings.
I think JLM's Holmes is much closer to my own mental picture of Holmes than BC's, although it took me a while to get past some things—his tattoos and sex life being two of my chief obstacles.
I can justify the tattoos by canon!Holmes being very fascinated by them, and maybe in modern times when they are no longer only sported by sailors and prisoners, he might be inclined to experiment with them. But the sex life is still just screaming 'we need a romance!' to me. I'd like to see Watson dating a bit more. Book!Watson was always very appreciative of the opposite sex, after all.