Sherlock

Elementary is, though. Really enjoyed tonight's Sherlock. Best man from Hell. Weird murder method. Locked door mystery. Sherlock dances!

'Sherlock' isn't an American series, feetlebaum...

Can't be doing with American series...Barbie dolls with luminous teeth waving guns about... Haven't forgiven then for what they did to Torchwood!

Enjoyed this episode but sorry BBC prefer Elementary on Sky.

No, the nepotism still stands! Just because it's done a lot, doesn't mean it's right.

Mary Morstan. She was the daughter of Holmes's client in The Sign of Four, I think.

Good point! I think there were three Fox's in one episode of Lewis so the charge of nepotism is withdrawn.

I knew there was a Mrs Watson in the original stories but did she feature in person? I don't recall...

Watson has a wife in the Conan Doyle stories. And given all the acting families around, I don't think it's fair to talk about nepotism in the theatre. Whoever they are related to, they won't make it very far if they are no good. So much luck involved at the start.

I'm disappointed they've introduced a wife into the equation and at the choice of actress. Nepotism or not I went off her (name escapes me) when she declared bankruptcy for a relatively small amount of money while she has a husband who admitted he could have cleared her debt easily. Pride's fine but I think she owed tax money...

Well done mollie for finding this out; I had no idea.Obviously done just for fun [parents] but if Watson's wife is to have a large role then it smacks of nepotism doesn't it? Not such fun.

We watched the New Year's Day episode again yesterday and it was better the second time round. But did anyone else notice that Sherlock's parents were BC's own parents so it was a bit of an in-joke? Both actors but not credited so perhaps he slipped them in to trump Watson's real life wife? Are a pair of parents equal to or more than one wife?

Pittcity your DH should get together with mine and my SiL. Between them they could take apart the underground system, guns and planes and wreck almost any film ever made.

Well, we only just watched it, and I thought it was great! It is pretend after all - isn't it?

threesugars a lot of the underground mistakes were a bit technical, but one was that the train has to be a certain length or the automatic systems won't let it run, so unhitching a carriage would be impossible. Of course the disused station doesn't exist and the fact that they mixed up stations and different types of train..... nothing that would worry the average viewer.
DH watched it in the control room of the Bakerloo Line and they just pulled it to pieces...

I'm looking forward to next episode. I haven't heard of Worlds End Flower I shall have to look out for that one, how nice for you that it was filmed in your home town.I think Mycroft gets all the best lines, and funnily enough I can hear every word he says, but I do struggle to hear Sherlock and Watson at times.I was dubious at frirst about a modern day Sherlock Holmes but after a shaky start [first episode] then I liked it.By that I mean the first ever episode not the one the other night.

I loved it and no, I don't think Moriarty is dead!

I didn't find it confusing. I do remember thinking that if anyone had forgotten all the twists from the last episode they would struggle, though. I had to remind DBH of a few things.

I Moriarty REALLY dead though. Probably but I did like the character.

sunseeker because it was filmed in Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn GC mostly I loved it. It was good to see our local town on the big screen even though they did massacre the World's First Roundabout in the process. They did apologise profusely and paid for it to be replanted. Three of the guys including Simon Pegg and Martin Freeman switched on our Christmas lights in 2012. We saw the film in our local cinema which was used as the frontage of the Mermaid pub - Worth a look even though there is an awful lot of F's and other expletives in it. I am proud to live in Newton Haven.

With Mycroft being played by Mark Gattis I imagine he could get very nasty indeed
I shall really miss Moriarty, I thought he was wonderful.

Great stuff! Loved the idea of 13 different permutations of how his 'death' was faked. Much more intriguing than just one answer. But ....... Who is the man with the glasses at the end? Hm?

Never seen it before but heard lots of good reports so decided to start with the new series. Oh dear , couldn't make head nor tail of it. Thought I may have drifted off, hang on--- I've seen this bit before. What's happening ,darling ??
Well of course he had no idea either . "It's very good acting though" Another hour of my life I'll never get back, as my son would say!

Thought Sherlock was a wonderful concoction, a combination of Harry Potter and James Bond, Clever, comedic and, yes, confusing but I guess that's the idea...brilliant script and acting though I found some lines were delivered at such speed making them indistinct (slightly better on iPad). Sundays episode should be just as entertaining. Or will it?

My hearing isn't 100% so I use the sub-titles. Flower what did you think of "Worlds End"? I'm a big Simon Pegg fan and am thinking of buying the DVD

I tend to watch the best programmes on the iPad with headphones specifically so that I catch everything that is said. My hearing is a bit duff but actors get away with mumbling and something gets muffled in transmission. Headphones pick everything up and lifts my enjoyment... but I still couldn't work out which version of the faked death was real! Who cares...is Moriarty dead or not? And is Mycroft more nasty than we already know? Time will tell...