If you're a Doctor Who fan and sad that a) you have to wait till Christmas for a new episode b) the "gay agenda" came to an end when RTD retired to the US and c) you are missing Cardiff, pretending to be London ... then, Sherlock is totally your series ... or mini-series, since it's only 3 episodes. As a bonus, you get Mark Gatiss for the "spot the Doctor Who actor" game.

Yes, I had quite a few moments thinking "the Doctor would totally do that ... and that ... and that too ..." and I could imagine Matt Smith in the Tardis with pretty much the same dialog. Am I accusing Moffat of recycling ideas he could not use for Doctor Who for this? Not really, because if you think about it, Sherlock Holmes and the Doctor aren't all that different in character. They are both odd characters and most of the time they are smarter than everyone else in the room and they can be quite arrogant about it. So yeah, it's very understandable that a writer would approach both characters in pretty much the same way.

The modern setting works well for me, although I got a bit tired of the whole text message stuff in the first episode. They managed to keep the mood and the general britishness of the Holmes stories, so it's not totally unrecognizable, like many other modern takes on something classic are. So yeah, bring on the last episode and promote it to a proper series.


Today's free book finds: A collection of Franz Kafka's works in pretty hardcover editions. Next time I visit my free books source I'll take my battered paperback copies there ... nice trade *grins*. Talking books - is it really that odd to collect the stuff you find in used books? And if yes, what do you do with loveletters, postcards or money from countries that don't exist anymore? Just throw that stuff away?!