The original Coventry problem, or the current problem which they said was similar?
They didn’t kill planeloads of their own citizens. Those were already dead bodies which were placed on the plane. The idea being that they could let the bomb go off, the terrorists would think their plan had succeeded, but nobody would have actually died. If they had not allowed the bomb to go off, the terrorists would know they had an information leak and plug it.
The analogy was to the Germans bombing Coventry in WWII. Military Intelligence found out in advance that it was going to happen, but if they’d intercepted the bombers the Germans would have known that they had a leak and plugged it. So they let the Germans bomb Coventry because they deemed the value of the spy to be greater than the casualties of a bombing.
Ah. I missed that bit, in all the stuff going on. I knew about Coventry.
I was a bit surprised that they
Didn’t find a Godfrey Norton substitute
But that was okay.
I didn’t like
that she had consulted Moriarty. I liked Adler as a free agent. Also, Sherlock followed her to wherever to protect her? Seemed a bit much.
Not looking too good for the prospect of a third set of Sherlock any time soon. Martin Freeman will be Bilbo for most of next year, Benedict C on Star Trek, and Steven Moffat on the next season of Doctor Who, and on the planning of Who’s 50th anniversary stuff in 2013…
I believe this season of Sherlock was intended to be six episodes, until they had to cut it short due to The Hobbit, so they have some written ready. My guess is, Doctor Who will start filming now (the regular plan has been to film September to April, but this time it’ll be something like January to August) and then resume the final three episodes of Sherlock as Martin Freeman should be back by then. A busy year.
FWIW my take on the BC Holmes’ sexuality is that, well, Holmes likes puzzles, and, to him, flirtation and attraction are just not particularly challenging puzzles.
As it were, he has already worked out all the right buttons to push, and how to push them and thus, he hasn’t got any interest in pushing them.
Except…IA piqued his interest, because she pushed his buttons back…and he hadn’t expected anyone to be able to do that.
Apologies about the horribly stretched metaphor.
Dude, the US airs these things on PBS in…MAY??? MAY??? Dude, what is up with the massive delay? Are they insane? Do they want us to bootleg these things?
Even Doctor Who airs on the same day, now. What is going on with PBS/BBC?
DVD’s & BluRays of the new series go on sale in the UK on January 23rd. You’ll need an all-region player for the DVD but I think the BluRays will play on anything but a PS3. Or one of those game systems…
I don’t think the new Sherlock films are a “disaster”, but the BBC version keeps more of the fun in solving the mystery/crime and is smarter. The Guy Ritchie films are a bit too much action and not so much brain power, whereas the BBC series is a perfect mix of both. Plus, it was fun to see a younger guy playing Sherlock.
I can’t find anything about plans for a third set of three episodes. And given the rising prominence of the two leads, I think they’d need to be signed for them well ahead of time.
(and yea, delaying release in the States for 6 months is bizarre.)
You may be right. What I read may have been unofficial speculation by some rube, and I’ve just bastardised and perpetuated it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge enlisted in the British army as silas tompkin cumberbatch
Don’t feel bad. I’ve done the same before.
Caitlin Moran of The Times can be delightfully sharptongued but is a real Sherlock fan. She ends her informative “My Love Affair With Sherlock” with this account of the preview showing of “Scandal”
I’m sure they want to make more, but everybody involved is so very busy. Partly because the success of the first series…
(Oh, Martin Freeman is on the next Graham Norton show–viewable tomorrow night on BBCamerica.)
Much like Kenneth Branagh’s judgement of his performance of the St Crispian’s speech in “Henry V.” He stood there, surrounded by some of the best Shakespearean actors with much more experience than him, and knew he had nailed it when Ian Holm nodded and mouthed, “That’s it.”
Annoying, sure. Bizarre? Not really. It’s pretty much SOP for transatlantic broadcast dates either direction. The shows which don’t do that are the exceptions.
I like him. Gay? A parade float with decorative floral arrangements?
Bizzare for the reason the original poster mentioned. Releasing a much awaited set of episodes on one side of the Atlantic and then waiting for six months on the other side is going to cause a lot of people pirate it.
It’s pretty much standard. At least I don’t know how long it tends to take to go in your direction, but we’ll often wait 6-12 months for US stuff (though there are some exceptions).
I totally agree that showing it sooner reduces piracy. I think the TV execs are slowly, after many years, finally coming round to realise this, since we’ve had a couple of shows recently with only a week or so delay.
I agree with others that
In the actual book, Irene Adler defeated Homes fairly decisively, over here he triumphs. I disagree that her portrayal was one dimensional. Any hope for a return? It would be nice to see them at it again.
On the other hand my favourite character is Mycroft, as always. But the actor is too lean to be Mycroft, thats my only complaint.
Ah, but Mycroft is played by Mark Gatiss, co-writer of Sherlock and one of the geniuses behind The League of Gentlemen, one of the darkest, funniest, most disturbing sketch shows you’ll ever see.
I can forgive him not being quite fat enough.