I'm finally starting in on the first episode of Sherlock.

[apocalypsos]

I'm only ten minutes in and I've already got the gist.

Police: We need help solving this murder from a sharp but incredibly rude white guy. Oh, if only House were a cop!

Steven Moffat: Well, we don't have House, but we DO have this guy who looks a hell of a lot like Peter Wingfield if you squint.

Police: ... fair enough.

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[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Aha! That's it! Thank you! I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out who he reminded me of...

[allwasnew.livejournal.com]

Police: Cuddy: We need help solving this murder undiagnosed case from a sharp but incredibly rude white guy. Oh, if only House Sherlock Holmes were a cop doctor!

There. Fixed that for you.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

For potential future viewing: Stuart: A Life Backwards. Tom Hardy (Eames) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock). Painful and heartbreaking.

[vampychick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the House people are pretty open about it being a direct Sherlock Holmes ripoff. Or is it called an "interpretation" when you're making stupid amounts of money off it?

[allwasnew.livejournal.com]

Or "homage," because it sounds fancier.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Not really. It was sort of my point. ;)

It kinda feels like Sherlock Holmes as written by someone who watched House knowing full well he was based on Sherlock Holmes. Not that that's a BAD thing, though ...

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Peter Wingfield! You're right, he does look like him.

I spend most of the first episode thinking "It looks like Merlin, it has high cheekbones and beady eyes like Merlin, but its voice in inexplicably deep and a bit shocking. Did someone travel five years into the future to kidnap Colin Morgan? This is honestly puzzling me and I can't quite enjoy it because IS IT OR IS IT NOT MERLIN?"

I decided it wasn't, but this was the genesis of my theory that All White British Dudes fall into two categories: skinny-faced and dark haired...or light-haired, and round-faced. Sherlock vs. Watson. Ten vs. The Master. Neil Gaiman vs. Ricky Gervais. Sold separately or in sets!

[minim_calibre]

Ricky Gervais *USED* to fall into the skinny faced (or at least high-cheekboned pretty boy) category. Clearly, he's some sort of shapeshifting English everyman or something.

[miladygrey.livejournal.com]

I summed him up to a friend as "The looks of Cillian Murphy and the voice (when he feels like it) of Alan Rickman.". And now I can add "and the nose of Peter Wingfield, if you squint.". No wonder I adore him.

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's Saxon heritage vs Norman heritage*. And if you add in blokes from the northern parts of the UK, you get the freckly ginger Celtic heritage too.





* Massive generalisation. Please do not point out the scads of exceptions.

[fyrdrakken]

I have a Holmes canon reread coming up, what with me getting a few free e-books and not having ever gotten around to reading A Study in Scarlet though I've probably read just about every other story in the canon -- anyway, need to check on this, but the impression I've gotten is that Holmes was actually a raging dickhead, at least in the earlier stuff. I do recall him pulling some douchey stuff because he thought it was funny, and being generally ragingly contemptuous of the intelligence of others.