He blew my mind because he’s like nothing I expected. (Thank you, Nigel Bruce.) I think in this series John is my absolute favorite character because even though he doesn’t get the snappy, snarky lines like his partner, he’s fantastic. Okay, hands up if you always thought of Watson as being a fat buffoon? Yeah, me too. After a few minutes, I realized two things: 1) I had not downloaded the wrong TV series, and 2) this was going to be an amazing show. Two seconds later, I hit “Pause” and started pounding out searches on Google to try and figure out what on earth I was watching. Real original, I know), downloaded it, and then sat down at my computer and clicked “Play.” Thus, when Catherine enthusiastically responded to my inquiry as to what she was watching, I briefly browsed the internet, found what I was looking for (some BBC television show called Sherlock. Needless to say, the world’s only consulting detective did not have much going for him if he wanted to win me over. (Okay, fine: Jude Law wasn’t so bad either.) The only part remotely interesting was any scene with Irene Adler, which shocked me because it was Rachel McAddams, and other than Mean Girls, I had never really cared for her either. Maybe you liked Sherlock Holmes, but I was bored. I saw the trailer, and I remember thinking, “Well, I don’t like Downey, but that looks interesting enough to suffer through a couple hours or so.” (who, for some reason, I absolutely and irrationally detest). To top it all off, Guy Ritchie decided to make a movie with Robert Downey, Jr. I had read A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles, and I had watched the amusing Disney film The Great Mouse Detective, and I had read the odd short story, but really, other than respecting the fact that he was a great literary icon and being grateful to him for giving us the amazing House, I really didn’t care all that much about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation. Up to this point in time, my feelings about the great detective could be summed up in one word: “Meh.” Actually, that’s not even a word. Last fall, I was bored and on the internet (a combination that’s almost never good, yet seems to always be the case) when my friend Catherine tweeted that she was watching something about Sherlock Holmes, and it was great.
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