Sherlock Holmes and Land Wars in Asia
Nov. 1st, 2010 12:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrasteI watched the first episode of Sherlock with friends today, and enjoyed it.
However, one thing that bemused me is that Sherlock has never seen The Princess Bride! This in itself is entirely plausible, since his interest in eighties fantasy romances strikes me as limited. However, I was surprised that he at no point suggested the solution to the pill problem that is blindingly obvious to anyone who has watched it. Possibly that scene is more tense if you don't spend the whole time thinking of the Dread Pirate Roberts.
What surprised me even more is that the friend I watched it with said she hadn't seen anyone in Sherlock fandom discussing the parallel!
However, one thing that bemused me is that Sherlock has never seen The Princess Bride! This in itself is entirely plausible, since his interest in eighties fantasy romances strikes me as limited. However, I was surprised that he at no point suggested the solution to the pill problem that is blindingly obvious to anyone who has watched it. Possibly that scene is more tense if you don't spend the whole time thinking of the Dread Pirate Roberts.
What surprised me even more is that the friend I watched it with said she hadn't seen anyone in Sherlock fandom discussing the parallel!
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Date: 2010-11-02 11:50 pm (UTC)When I saw the title of this post, I thought you were going to comment on something that really struck me. In the original SH books published in the late 1890s-early 1900s, Watson is an Army doctor back from the war in Afghanistan. So we have a version set in 2010 and.... Watson is an Army doctor back from the war in Afghanistan. Ouch. An unexpected reminder of the uselessness of prosecuting a war in Afghanistan.