Virtual Birthday Party, Day 2

[wiseheart]

Dear all,

Day 1 of the party has been a great success: 170 comments on 2 pages so far. As agreed, I hereby kick off the second day, so that we won't lose everything like last year, should LJ crash our party again.

Threads of interest can still be commented on, but I ask you to start any new threads here from now on

And now: on with the party!!!

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

If you shorten P&P too much you're in danger of turning it into a generic love story, which it isn't. And, more generally, I hate the way the recent crop of Austen adaptations have abandoned the original dialogue. The new Emma, in particular, was terribly marred by bits of dialogue that were utterly un-Austen, mixed in with bits snagged semi-directly from the book, in a horribly jarring fashion.

The new Jane Eyre had far more chemistry between Jane & Rivers (an excellent Jamie Bell); in fact, the whole Rivers section was foregrounded. It made for an interesting AU, but it really wasn't Jane Eyre.

And I don't understand what they were aiming for with the new Sherlock Holmes. It seemed to turn Holmes into generic action hero -- I can see there are elements of physicality in the original that it's fair to foreground, but I like the disembodied brain archetype & there are plenty of other action heroes around.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the new Sherlock Holmes movies, but Elementary is abysmal. A female Watson could have been interesting, but the way they did it was so boring I didn't even manage to sit through Season 1.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Elementary; I've been wondering whether to give it a try.

One of the things I thought when I first saw the Sherlock pilot was that they missed a trick in not making Watson female. (But then I got to like Freeman in the role very much.) It was a shame with Sherlock that they didn't present any positive women, other than as very minor characters, until they decided to develop Molly into that niche.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I do love Mrs Hudson, though. And I belong to the minority that actually likes Sergeant Sally Donovan.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Donovan could have been so much more sympathetic & interesting. I don't really know what they were aiming for there.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Neither did they, at least that was my impression. He could have been an interesting adversary to Sherlock, without being actually evil, because, let's face it, every self-respecting cop would hate the man's guts. *g*