So what do we think of 'Sherlock' ?

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it could grow on me..intriguing so far!

Was brilliant! DH, a devotee of the books and Granada series, loved it too.

I thought the way they showed some of his deduction (when looking at the woman's body) was clever.

I liked it and the stylised bits didn't rankle too much, but actually added to it. Was obviously cab driver though. Liked that Watson's character was given a bit of gumption.

Golly jood. DS#1 sat and watched it and was hooked so I think we'll be watching it from now on.

loved it really did, even dh did and he doesn't watch drama unless it has action man blowing up stuff in it.
Witty, liked use of graphics on screen and the whole amibience.
More please BBC

Loved it, would have liked a bit more plot - dying to find out who is playing Moriaty!!

The three patch problem was, in the original books, a "three pipe problem" I think.

Watson was always sharp in the books - it's only the Nigel Bruce film version which has reinforced the public idea of him as a bumbling fool. The two actors who played him in the ITV series were closer to the book's concept of him as an intelligent man of the world - he didn't have Holmes's deductive powers but he was essential to Holmes as a "fixed point in a changing world".

Incidentally, the Rathbone/Bruce films were updated to what was, then, the present day - the 1940s. (Writer Steven Moffat is quite right in the Radio Times when he says there is an argument for the Holmes stories not being done as a "period piece" as they weren't written as such.)

It was pretty faithful to the spirit of the stories - and many elements were already there in Conan Doyle. The whole "choose a pill" thing is in "A Study In Scarlet" although with a different backstory. The deduction about the alcoholic brother/sister from the engraved and scratched iPhone is an engraved and scratched pocket-watch in the books. And Holmes's addiction to texting is just the natural modern version of his endless telegrams!

Although has anyone here ever seen an engraved iPhone?

"You have a seriously weird family if they go around engraving mobile phones" would probably have been my first deduction...

I haven't read the whole thread but wanted to add my two pennies' worth anyway... it was so obviously the taxi driver, how stupid are all those police and Dr Watson not to figure that out when the phone was being GPS tracked and the taxi driver arrived? Also, how does a black cabbie get to keep his licence when he has had a brain embolism for 3 years and could die any minute? Surely he shouldn't even have a driving licence let alone be ferrying people round all day?

Yay! Sociopath! Sociopath!

yes the taxi driver X3 got obvious - though Sherlock isn't meant to be perfect

he is known for missing important clues every now and again which allow plots to continue..

My MIL has an engraved Ipod...

DH deals furniture and one of his chairs was bought by the props dept to go in Sherlock's living room! We got a bit excited when we saw that

I must be a complete numpty, as didn't work out the taxi driver thing at all!

Loved it though. Similar tone to dr who which I really like and martin freeman and benedict cumerbatch both excellent. Can't work out if BC has wrong face on right head or right face on wrong head IYSWIM. Anyway he looks cool, though sometimes I couldn't keep up with his v fast explanations.

I rather liked it.

Some plot holes, but can't be perfect all the time.

bettybutterknife was it that lovely deep armchair that would cost about 2 grand in Heals?

I enjoyed it but fell asleep and missed the end. Had realised too it was the taxi driver.

I also have an engraved i-pod. Has a lovely romantic message from DH on it. He bought it me for Christmas.

I think there's a distinction between an iPod and an iPhone, though, engraving-wise. DH has an engraved (I think) iPod that his old employers gave him for something or other (suspect message is less lovely and romantic, though ) but I still think engraving a mobile phone is at best extremely unusual.

hmmmmm my mother + i thought that SH was 'cute' but with those kissy lips + floppy curly fringe, looked like an over-grown toddler with a slightly sinister air - as if he's grown up in the village of the damned... script was slickly amusing and AC Doyle looks like he needs mothering...

That's the one, Bessie - the leather one with a chrome frame like this.

As someone who studied in London and lived there for a while afterwards (before moving to the back of beyond)...it REALLY made me miss London.

Dh and I enjoyed it very much. I like mentalist too. Liked Freeman. Got the cabbie, normally last to get anything, me !!

I liked it, loved the acting and it was good to see SH without all that - now quite cliched - deerstalker, fog, Hansoms etc. I thought the plot was pretty patchy - guessed the taxi driver from when SH said it must be someone who can travel unnoticed amongst crowds etc. Plus, I take off my wedding ring every night, that doesn't make me a serial adulterer!

And I think I missed something aboutt hte two pills - how did the serial killer always choose the right one?

Seemed like Dr Who had been renamed. Not necessarily a bad thing.

We really enjoyed it. I had managed to miss any trailers for it, and it was a (pleasant) surprise to me to find out that Steven Moffatt had done it, as we're big Doctor Who fans here. I could definitely see Matt SMith's Doctor Who in Sherlock, and agree that the plot was a bit weak, but all the rest of it made up for that. Will definitely be watching the next one.

thought it was fantastic, made my day