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Message: <blockquote data-quote="horacethegrey" data-source="post: 5259894" data-attributes="member: 40123">I thought it was a brilliant reinterpretation of the Great Detective for the modern era. Casting was great. Not sure how high Benedict Cumberbacht rates among the likes of Jeremy Brett and Robert Downey Jr., but damn was he good. And I'm glad that he plays up Holmes' more sociopathic tendencies (though I'm hoping in the future he doesn't overdo it, I don't want Holmes becoming House). And Martin Freeman plays him off well as a delightfully understated Watson. There are some genuine funny moments between the two of them(particularly Watson's insistence that they are not a couple <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />). The plot wasn't that special, but still enjoyable. I also like the txt messages that flash across the screen, really nice innovation.On other forums people have noticed similarities between this and Moffat's Doctor Who, particularly in how the two leads are portrayed. Many are saying Cumberbacht is stealing notes from Matt Smith's portrayal of the Doctor, but that's a disservice. Holmes was like this even in the original stories, so it'd more fair to say the Doctor was stealing notes from him.Looking forward to next Sunday! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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