Submitted by petermorwood on September 24, 2010 - 23:12
I really like(d) "Sherlock," the 21st-century update of you-know-who, and I think Conan Doyle would have liked it too. (He'd certainly have given Dr. Watson's Afghan War connection a sour 'been there before' look.)
But good grief, if Holmes wants to survive for another series (already green-lighted) he needs someone behind the camera telling director and actor (where do you shoot a name like "Benedict (Timothy Carlton) Cumberbatch"?) that you treat a Browning L9A1 pistol with a LOT more respect. You don't point it at your friend, you don't wave it about for emphasis, and you DO NOT scratch the back of your head with it (with finger on trigger, unless I mis-saw!)
In series canon, one shot from this is able to put a Bad Guy down for good. Sherlock is supposedly so clever that he mocks everyone else for "living in such boring little minds." Well, if he continues treating Watson's Browning like a Super-Squirter, some malevolent screenwriter will be justified in making the last thing to cross his mind something 9mm wide.
Last time I saw something this gun-careless was "Plan Nine from Outer Space." And that's no compliment.
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ABOUT SHERLOCK: Co-created by
ABOUT SHERLOCK:
Co-created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the new Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as his loyal friend, Doctor John Watson. Rupert Graves plays Inspector Lestrade.
The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain – they live at the same address of 221b Baker Street, have the same names and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them.
Steven Moffat says: "Conan Doyle's stories were never about frock coats and gas light; they're about brilliant detection, dreadful villains and blood-curdling crimes – and frankly, to hell with the crinoline. Other detectives have cases, Sherlock Holmes has adventures, and that's what matters."
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I'm always amazed at how cavalier people are about that. I even saw it at a Penn & Teller show some years ago, when via a very odd chain of circumstances, I was able to "help" with the "catch a bullet with your teeth trick" I was inspecting Penn's gun, and another gent, who was supposedly a gunsmith, was inspecting teller's. I'm doing the standard "move the cylinder to the load position, fingers in that space so it can't accidently pop back, always point the barrel in the direction of no people" thing. I find out after the show that the "gunsmith" was pointing his .357 at the audience, causing a rather interesting variant of the Wave as he swept it back and forth while checking it out. I was honestly surprised at that.
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