The Great Sherlock Thread

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  • edited June 2012
    http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/sherlock-co-creator-hits-us-network-over-elementary-130400646.html

    Either Stephen Moffat is still unhappy, or the gossip websites are still stringing out the same interviews.
  • edited June 2012
    Idk if this thread is just for the TV show or all things Holmes but is anyone going to get the new Sherlock game The Testament of Sherlock Holmes? I know I have posted this in a few places but I forgot there was a Sherlock thread:p
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    is anyone going to get the new Sherlock game The Testament of Sherlock Holmes?

    "Developed primarily for consoles"... if it's not on PC, it's not an option for me.
  • edited June 2012
    puzzlebox wrote: »
    "Developed primarily for consoles"... if it's not on PC, it's not an option for me.

    It will be on PC as well. And it has point and click style or you can swap it to controller movement (and presumably arrow key to move).
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    It will be on PC as well. And it has point and click style or you can swap it to controller movement (and presumably arrow key to move).

    Nice. I'm slightly interested, but will wait for reviews/opinions before committing any money to it.
  • edited June 2012
    Has you username always been in red? It looks new.
  • edited June 2012
    Her name appears in its usual gray to me now. Very curious, Watson. Perhaps she was hired by Telltale then summarily dismissed within the course of a few hours.
  • edited June 2012
    New trailer for the game.
  • edited June 2012
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  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited June 2012
    Still, those first four minutes felt like Psych+Monk+House and I presume that will be the recipe for the entire series. As meh as that is, it also means Moffat has nothing to complain about. CBS explicitly doesn't WANT the parts of Moffat's Sherlock that make it a special series, and Moffat doesn't "own" Sherlock Holmes. Whether there might be other things that could still make the CBS series special remains to be seen.
    It's also pretty weird to be worrying about other adaptations when Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain in the UK (and arguably in the US as well as long as you don't base your adaptation on the one book that's still in copyright there). Freedom to make your own adaptation is just what the public domain is for.
  • edited June 2012
    Jennifer wrote: »
    It's also pretty weird to be worrying about other adaptations when Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain in the UK. Freedom to make your own adaptation is just what the public domain is for.

    That means I can make an adaptation legally if I wanted?
  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited June 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    That means I can make an adaptation legally if I wanted?
    Yes, as you are in the UK you definitely can. :)
  • edited June 2012
    Jennifer wrote: »
    Yes, as you are in the UK you definitely can. :)

    Space Sherlock vs Darth Moriarty here I come!
  • edited June 2012
    Just as long as you don't impinge on the rights to "Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century" or that two-part "Bravestarr" story.

    Oh, and you might want to rethink that whole 'Darth' thing as well. Possibly could be an issue there.... :D
  • edited June 2012
    Spoiler for the game
    YOU GET TO PLAY AS HIS DOG
    .
  • edited June 2012
    I saw a black and white Sherlock movie. The Voice of Terror it was really good.
  • edited June 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    Space Sherlock vs Darth Moriarty here I come!

    Didn't Asylum already do that?
  • edited June 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    I saw a black and white Sherlock movie. The Voice of Terror it was really good.

    Y'see, I think that's a fun movie as well, even though it's got one massive plot hole in it (HOW did Holmes know about the baddie's big secret anyway?!) but it's generally considered one of the 'bad' Rathbone/Bruce efforts (alongside "Sherlock Holmes in Washington", whcih I also like) compared to the 'good' ones, such as that tedious thing where they go to Canada.

    Incidentally, if anybody can find it by googling, the audio of Rathbone and Bruce swopping roles for a radio comedy show is very much worth hearing!
  • edited June 2012
    I watched both series of Sherlock in two nights. :) I miss
    Moriarty :( he was soooo good as a villain..and sexy as all hell
    !
  • edited July 2012
  • edited July 2012
    Lucy Liu proud to be first female Watson...

    http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/lucy-liu-proud-first-female-watson-152811535.html

    .... except for this one...

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093850/

    ... and arguably this one...

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067848/

    ... and the same goes for this one...

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075134/
  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited July 2012
    Lucy Liu proud to be first female Watson...
    She might not be the first character in a Sherlock Holmes story named Watson, but she is the first Watson. The rest of those were other people named Watson (a descendant of Watson who is assistant to Sherlock Holmes after he was unthawed after being cryogenically frozen for 80 years, a doctor who happens to be named Watson who treats a psychiatric patient who believes he's Sherlock Holmes, and another doctor named Watson who is treating a cop who thinks he's Sherlock Holmes after suffering a concussion). As far as I know, Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu are meant to be the Holmes and Watson (just as Starbuck is meant to be the Starbuck in the reimagining of Battlestar Galactica, despite being a woman when the original was a man).
  • edited July 2012
    Elementary Holmes used Google to find out about Joan Watson insted of using Deduction. Il be giving this a miss.
  • edited August 2012
    Did anybody catch "The Hound of the Baskervilles" on Radio 4 a few weeks ago. A spoof by a theatre group called Peepolykus, it starred the world's first Spanish actor to play the Great Detective....

    .... but it looks like the second may be hot on his heels!

    http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/08/06/trailer-holmes-and-watson-in-madrid-a-spanish-spin-on-conan-doyle/
  • edited August 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    Elementary Holmes used Google to find out about Joan Watson insted of using Deduction. Il be giving this a miss.
    Well how else would he find out about it in this day and age? Go to a library and look it up? Pssh.

    Also, has the series started airing or was that just in a trailer? I'm actually rather curious to see what it's like in comparison to the British one.
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited August 2012
    Also, has the series started airing or was that just in a trailer?

    The premiere is 27 September.
  • edited August 2012
    Last year it was Woman, Hound, Fall. This year's three words revealed tomorrow at #MGEITF #Sherlock Master Class.

    We already know the first is to be The Empty House. Any guesses as to the next two?
  • edited August 2012
    Ribs wrote: »
    We already know the first is to be The Empty House. Any guesses as to the next two?

    Maybe one of them is The Sussex Vampire.
  • edited August 2012
    Ribs wrote: »
    We already know the first is to be The Empty House. Any guesses as to the next two?

    It's now been announced;
    Rat, Wedding, Bow

    Wedding'll clearly cover Watson's Wedding, and Bow would be His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes' final case).

    Also announced was they were shooting to broadcast in Summer 2013. (I have a feeling it may be pushed back even further now that Martin Freeman'll be going back to film The Hobbit 3: The Search for More Money early next year).
  • edited August 2012
    Ribs wrote: »
    Bow
    -Ties?
    Ribs wrote: »
    to broadcast in Summer 2013.

    Yes, absurd 50th Anniversary Crossover Cobblers STARTS HERE!

    (Wot, no Crown Diamond? And I still say they ought to get Raffles on "A Question of Sport").
  • edited August 2012
    Rat. “The Giant Rat of Sumatra”;“The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”;”The Boscombe Valley Mystery”

    Wedding. “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor."

    Bow. “His Last Bow.”

    And just to be clear, His Last Bow was followed by The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, so it’s likely that season 4 will be made afterwards.
  • edited August 2012
    Noname215 wrote: »
    Rat. “The Giant Rat of Sumatra”;“The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”;”The Boscombe Valley Mystery”

    Wedding. “The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor."

    Bow. “His Last Bow.”

    And just to be clear, His Last Bow was followed by The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, so it’s likely that season 4 will be made afterwards.

    Ah, but his Last Bow was the last chronologically. It would be interesting to see them do it non-chronologically and go back to adventures set in Series Two or whatnot (possibly just to feature Andrew Scott again!)
  • edited August 2012
    Still. My money for the Rat clue is on The Giant Rat of Sumatra.
  • edited September 2012
    According to wiki theres gonna be a Sherlock manga.

    "In Japan, a manga adaptation of the series illustrated by Jay will begin serialization in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine from October 4, 2012.[112]"
  • edited September 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    According to wiki theres gonna be a Sherlock manga.

    That was on bleedingcool.com as well. It strikes me as a bit of an odd thing to adapt... I couldn't quite work out if this was an official thing or not.
  • edited September 2012
    That was on bleedingcool.com as well. It strikes me as a bit of an odd thing to adapt... I couldn't quite work out if this was an official thing or not.

    After this...

    index.jpg

    ...no adaptation surprises me.
  • edited September 2012
    After this...

    index.jpg

    ...no adaptation surprises me.

    Doesn't seem to be anything there!
  • edited September 2012
    I don't know what the DJ was referring to with that broken image, but there was also an Agatha Christie anime series and accompanying manga: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie's_Great_Detectives_Poirot_and_Marple

    Apparently those crazy Japanese will adapt anything. :D
  • edited September 2012
    Haggis wrote: »
    I don't know what the DJ was referring to with that broken image, but there was also an Agatha Christie anime series and accompanying manga: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie's_Great_Detectives_Poirot_and_Marple

    Apparently those crazy Japanese will adapt anything. :D

    Inspector Japp got a name change for it.:p
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