sherlock holmes

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The previous Saturday Nights Massacre has just ended.  With 83% of the vote Han Solo has hyperspace away with the Coors beer against Peter Quill’s 17%.

And now, for the next matchup:

THE SETTING: 

New Scotland Yard had been rocked. Not even MI-6 knew who he was except vague rumors from the usual suspects. About possibly being Turkish, maybe German. The explosion on the Thames portended schemes of a sinister genius more formidable than Moriarty or Magnussen. As Mycroft rushes into Speedy’s Cafe (stopping only to hold the door open for a man limping onto the London streets) he spots his brother eating a sandwich. Informed on the situation the dark-haired man in the woolen cape coat smiles. There is a gleam in his eye. And the game begins…

That’s right: it’s Keyser Soze versus Sherlock (from the BBC series).  It is a clash of the intellects like ...

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Sherlock, BBC, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Sherlock HolmesI will admit: last month when my girlfriend started swooning and gushing over the BBC series Sherlock, telling me that “you have to watch this!” my internalized reaction was something akin to “oh geeeeez… NOT another Sherlock Holmes adaptation.”

No disrespect intended but seriously: how many times can one go to 221 B. Baker Street and not know what to expect?  I’ve probably watched all the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone, along with 1985’s Young Sherlock Holmes (does John Lasseter’s computer-animated stained-glass knight still astound, or what?) and everything in between.  Even The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother.  Be it straight adaptation or screwball comedy, when it comes to Holmes I’ve seen it all.

But Kristen wanted to share that weekend together watching the six episodes comprising Seasons 1 and 2 of Sherlock.  Quietly resigned to anticipating nothing to write home about, I settled ...

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