Comments on: Last Minute Holiday Gift Ideas: Multi-Media

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:47:35 +0000

I get the impression that the British have a hard time seeing Orientalim as racist.

By: Sivi

Sivi — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:36:27 +0000

@Daniel

It’s hard not to like the new Sherlock, but the 2nd episode did its best by being about as racist as it’s possible to be (barring having a bunch of dudes in black-face chase around a white woman, as in Florence & the Machine’s new video. Which is a shame, because I like their music).

By: Daniel J. Andrews

Daniel J. Andrews — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:48:02 +0000

heh. I hadn’t realized that.

We discussed seeing the new Sherlock Hollywood movie (Downey, Law) tonight, but BBC won out over Hollywood this time–something about Cumberbatch’s accent that has my wife swooning ever so slightly. Must start cultivating an accent….

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:00:07 +0000

I love the new BBC series. And I want personal copies of it. Note: Watson actually returns home from war in roughly the same place as the original Watson!

By: Daniel J. Andrews

Daniel J. Andrews — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:54:35 +0000

Have you seen the BBC series Sherlock? Set in modern day London, Dr. Watson is freshly returned from one of the middle east wars, Holmes is brilliantly played by Benedict Cumberbatch (a right proper British name–he played Joseph Hooker in Creation).

The first series is good (2.5 hours or thereabouts) with humour, wit, as it lays out Holmes style and his interaction with Dr. Watson and people in general–Holmes seems to be a cross between Dexter and Professor Snape, at times Cumberbatch’s accent and delivery is near identical to Rickman’s/Snape(very very entertaining).

Second one I didn’t find as clever. We’ll watch the third one tonight.

Anyway, BBC does have some excellent series in addition to their documentaries and they would also make good holiday gifts.

btw, Winged Migration a good gift for any bird lover who doesn’t already have it.