tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512050174377678428.post4912659531388066622..comments2024-03-26T09:32:26.565-05:00Comments on Sherlock Peoria: What would Sherlock Holmes think of "Elementary?"Sherlock Peoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09896656391037436805noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512050174377678428.post-20377117163206905612016-02-27T09:22:12.611-06:002016-02-27T09:22:12.611-06:00I like Bluebloods (she said in a small voice).I like Bluebloods (she said in a small voice).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04066417080920042579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512050174377678428.post-45547233862525008332016-02-26T18:33:15.799-06:002016-02-26T18:33:15.799-06:00Richard says, "Help me understand what you co...Richard says, "Help me understand what you consider a good quality show that is on network television." -- Try "The Murdoch Mysteries", it is what I consider a good quality show and the best on TV today. If you haven't seen that show, I'll offer you "Sleepy Hollow", that one has kept my attention with continuity and superior writing. If you want to go back a few years "Monk" was a quality network show. I do however also enjoy "NCIS", and consider that a step above the others you mentioned also.Howard Ostromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974147547261766167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512050174377678428.post-63331280716854034732016-02-26T15:12:14.840-06:002016-02-26T15:12:14.840-06:00Sorry, but I'm not subjecting some poor fanfic...Sorry, but I'm not subjecting some poor fanfic author to the criticisms of Elementary fans who are just out for revenge because I didn't like their favorite show. Good fanfic is out there and recs aren't hard to find. Just like good television is out there, complete with commercial breaks. I enjoy a lot of it every week. (And sometimes BBC America will even show Sherlock with commercials, and it still works.) I'm not raising the bar just for Elementary. All I'm doing is watching it and recording the results.Sherlock Peoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09896656391037436805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512050174377678428.post-67085525120288847742016-02-26T11:22:59.900-06:002016-02-26T11:22:59.900-06:00Help me understand what you consider a good qualit...Help me understand what you consider a good quality show that is on network television. Given the short segments with advertising it is a difficult format. Elementary, in my opinion is as good as others like CSI, Mentalist, NCIS and Criminal Minds etc. Now if you dislike all network crime shows then you will surely dislike Elementary. But if you like me and and watch one to two hours of television then it might be your favorite especially because of the Sherlockian content. Your blog challenges me to not just consume the entertainment but to try and think about it. Now did Sherlock have a mother? <br />I would still challenge you Brad to point out A GOOD QUALITY fanfiction. An art form that you have not been so critical of in the past.<br />Richard Sveumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14682153810620384840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512050174377678428.post-17677607595430652792016-02-26T10:48:18.729-06:002016-02-26T10:48:18.729-06:00Not liking Elementary isn't a choice, sad to s...Not liking Elementary isn't a choice, sad to say. I would love to be positive about the show if they would just make A GOOD QUALITY SHOW. Letting crap television slide just because it has the name "Sherlock Holmes" attached does no one any good, and we live in an age where enough sow's ears are being called silk purses. If they do good work, I promise to respond appropriately. Will that day come? We shall see.Sherlock Peoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09896656391037436805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512050174377678428.post-38836936612334217762016-02-26T10:18:58.000-06:002016-02-26T10:18:58.000-06:00So to play the meta-fiction set-up. Why not have ...So to play the meta-fiction set-up. Why not have BBC Sherlock or CBS Sherlock critique the original stories or each other or Rathbone. Remember Sherlock would not bother watching Sherlock but rather busy himself being Sherlock. It is up to us his fans to be entertained. I know that you want to not like Elementary but why not try to go positive? Write about how it stimulated you to think about Sherlock's parents?<br />Despite the canonical fact that SH thought Dupin inferior I love Dupin. Vincent Starrett even wrote a Dupin pastiche. I can only hope that when CBS pulls the plug on Elementary someone will produce a new series with Dupin.Richard Sveumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14682153810620384840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512050174377678428.post-57775573849647728192016-02-26T03:56:43.630-06:002016-02-26T03:56:43.630-06:00The writers of "Elementary" are miserabl...The writers of "Elementary" are miserable bunglers, they had only one think to recommend them, and that was Clyde. That show makes me positively ill. . . . It might be made a text-book for screenwriters to teach them what to avoid.Howard Ostromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974147547261766167noreply@blogger.com