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A reasonably good day, in all respects...
Sep. 29th, 2012 10:34 pm...except maybe the rain, but what can you do?
Loads of excellent mental composition, but no opportunity to sit down and set it down in any manner.
Apropos of which, I recall an exchange from Thursday's premiere of Elementary (downloaded for free from iTunes as it is the pilot of a new show), in which Holmes, sitting on the rooftop of the brownstone he inhabits and observing a beehive, informs Watson (who has come up to tell Holmes there is honey leaking into the building) that he is writing a book on beekeeping, and was just composing chapter 19, and would Watson care to hear the most recent few paragraphs?
Moments like that aided the show, which in my opinion will need all the help it can get. I detected barely a heartbeat in the chemistry between Holmes (played by an actor Galina is familiar with but I am not) and Watson (played by Lucy Liu). (Hmmm, can chemistry have a heartbeat? No matter.)
Add to that the effort expended to render Holmes as "life sized" (e.g., Holmes confessing that the mind game he claimed to have played to get a witness to spill information really hadn't been anything of the sort and had simply happened in response to his being a jerk) and I am reminded of a memorable exchange from one of my favorite movies—My Favorite Year—in which film swashbuckler Alan Swann (played by Peter O'Toole) confesses, "Look at me! I'm flesh and blood, life-size, no larger! I'm not that silly God-damned hero! I never was!" To which Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) replies, "To me you were! Whoever you were in those movies, those silly goddamn heroes meant a lot to me! What does it matter if it was an illusion? It worked! So don't tell me this is you life-size. I can't use you life-size. I need Alan Swanns as big as I can get them!"
To which I can only add: "And I need the biggest Sherlock Holmes you can muster!"
One episode does not make or break a show. I just hope things go uphill for Elementary in subsequent episodes, or it won't be around very long.
Cheers...
Loads of excellent mental composition, but no opportunity to sit down and set it down in any manner.
Apropos of which, I recall an exchange from Thursday's premiere of Elementary (downloaded for free from iTunes as it is the pilot of a new show), in which Holmes, sitting on the rooftop of the brownstone he inhabits and observing a beehive, informs Watson (who has come up to tell Holmes there is honey leaking into the building) that he is writing a book on beekeeping, and was just composing chapter 19, and would Watson care to hear the most recent few paragraphs?
Moments like that aided the show, which in my opinion will need all the help it can get. I detected barely a heartbeat in the chemistry between Holmes (played by an actor Galina is familiar with but I am not) and Watson (played by Lucy Liu). (Hmmm, can chemistry have a heartbeat? No matter.)
Add to that the effort expended to render Holmes as "life sized" (e.g., Holmes confessing that the mind game he claimed to have played to get a witness to spill information really hadn't been anything of the sort and had simply happened in response to his being a jerk) and I am reminded of a memorable exchange from one of my favorite movies—My Favorite Year—in which film swashbuckler Alan Swann (played by Peter O'Toole) confesses, "Look at me! I'm flesh and blood, life-size, no larger! I'm not that silly God-damned hero! I never was!" To which Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) replies, "To me you were! Whoever you were in those movies, those silly goddamn heroes meant a lot to me! What does it matter if it was an illusion? It worked! So don't tell me this is you life-size. I can't use you life-size. I need Alan Swanns as big as I can get them!"
To which I can only add: "And I need the biggest Sherlock Holmes you can muster!"
One episode does not make or break a show. I just hope things go uphill for Elementary in subsequent episodes, or it won't be around very long.
Cheers...
