Hurr, maybe. It would be nice, but my mother recently have me some money towards my lovely, shiny, light, long-battery-life, big-memory laptop that I love very much, so I don't want to push it. You don't want to see the state my old laptop was in.
I guess it's impossible to please everyone - the racism in TBB really was strange, though, wasn't it? But it's nice how many Conan Doyle fans really like the new version - so many reviews I've read begin with "At first I was sceptical at the idea of Sherlock Holmes in modern-day London, but then...".
I completely agree with the addiction to mysteries being the problem, rather than the drugs. I much preferred House when it was just the original team solving medical mysteries, without crazy love triangles and rehab and taking the characters to DARK, DARK places. I haven't even seen the newest season (I'll probably get it after it comes out on DVD and becomes somewhat cheap), but everyone I've spoken to says it's not as good. One thing UK TV does know how to do is quit while it's ahead and not just go on and on for as long as a show might keep making money. It does mean frustratingly short seasons, but at least they're normally good :)
Jeeves and Wooster originally aired absolutely ages ago, but it sometimes airs late at night on UK comedy channels, which is how I've seen bits. It's basically Fry and Laurie as Jeeves and Wooster, a rich idiot and his butler, from P.G. Wodehouse’s novels. It's quite good.
V for Vendetta is one of my favourite films :)
Hehe, the whole "scuff marks around the phone charger socket mean it belongs to an alcoholic" is a fantastic updating from the original. I won't spoil it for you :D I've been reading some of the stories I never read before since watching Sherlock and have been noticing some of the shout-outs in reverse, too. I think it's fun either way XD
I wondered if the whole camp gay act was an act or a whole series of bluffs, too. Before the second and third episodes aired, a couple of friends and I would check the blogs religiously, and we theorised that Molly's boyfriend Jim could be Moriarty. And then he said how he loved Glee and we were all "LOLOLOL imagine if he was" and then he actually was and we all laughed and it ruined the big ~reveal moment~ a bit.
But that split-second moment in TGG when Sherlock thinks John could be Moriarty! GUH. It hurts every time D: (and I kept rewatching it to marvel at the SOS blinking thing because that is so amazing)
John Simm would've made a pretty good Moriarty, I think. I love how he can be so "AHAHA I AM SO CRAZY" in Who, and then so "Oh god, what if I am mad?" and utterly sympathetic in Life on Mars.
I want to rewatch the RDJ film to see how it compares to the BBC Sherlock. I remember leaving the cinema thinking it was pretty good, but I finished ASiP and thought it was the best thing ever. Apparently they're making a sequel - it'll be interesting to see how it measures up to the second series of Sherlock :D
I guess it's impossible to please everyone - the racism in TBB really was strange, though, wasn't it? But it's nice how many Conan Doyle fans really like the new version - so many reviews I've read begin with "At first I was sceptical at the idea of Sherlock Holmes in modern-day London, but then...".
I completely agree with the addiction to mysteries being the problem, rather than the drugs. I much preferred House when it was just the original team solving medical mysteries, without crazy love triangles and rehab and taking the characters to DARK, DARK places. I haven't even seen the newest season (I'll probably get it after it comes out on DVD and becomes somewhat cheap), but everyone I've spoken to says it's not as good. One thing UK TV does know how to do is quit while it's ahead and not just go on and on for as long as a show might keep making money. It does mean frustratingly short seasons, but at least they're normally good :)
Jeeves and Wooster originally aired absolutely ages ago, but it sometimes airs late at night on UK comedy channels, which is how I've seen bits. It's basically Fry and Laurie as Jeeves and Wooster, a rich idiot and his butler, from P.G. Wodehouse’s novels. It's quite good.
V for Vendetta is one of my favourite films :)
Hehe, the whole "scuff marks around the phone charger socket mean it belongs to an alcoholic" is a fantastic updating from the original. I won't spoil it for you :D I've been reading some of the stories I never read before since watching Sherlock and have been noticing some of the shout-outs in reverse, too. I think it's fun either way XD
I wondered if the whole camp gay act was an act or a whole series of bluffs, too. Before the second and third episodes aired, a couple of friends and I would check the blogs religiously, and we theorised that Molly's boyfriend Jim could be Moriarty. And then he said how he loved Glee and we were all "LOLOLOL imagine if he was" and then he actually was and we all laughed and it ruined the big ~reveal moment~ a bit.
But that split-second moment in TGG when Sherlock thinks John could be Moriarty! GUH. It hurts every time D: (and I kept rewatching it to marvel at the SOS blinking thing because that is so amazing)
John Simm would've made a pretty good Moriarty, I think. I love how he can be so "AHAHA I AM SO CRAZY" in Who, and then so "Oh god, what if I am mad?" and utterly sympathetic in Life on Mars.
I want to rewatch the RDJ film to see how it compares to the BBC Sherlock. I remember leaving the cinema thinking it was pretty good, but I finished ASiP and thought it was the best thing ever. Apparently they're making a sequel - it'll be interesting to see how it measures up to the second series of Sherlock :D