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Holmeses and Holmeses
Aug. 30th, 2008 11:36 pmHave started listening to Petherbridge!Holmes's version of "A Study in Scarlet"! It's excellent, definitely, though I keep getting thrown off because I seem to have learned the Merrison/Williams version word-for-word at some point. Ahem. ("Do you think he might be... addicted to something?" "He seems like a perfectly healthy dog to me!") But yes, Watson has fun inner monologues over Holmes's long ramblings. And Holmes keeps barging in on poor sleepy Watson to tell him about, um, burning human skin and things.
It's always fun to see what they do with the whole "Sherlock Holmes: His Limits" list, because that is Not An Easy Thing to get across in audio. The Coules approach was to have Holmes read it beforehand when Watson fails to totally burn it, and then to launch into a non-sequiturish recitation of it, complete with violin-type accompaniment, while Watson just goes "...Holmes?" Can't beat that. The bizarre dream sequence in this version is pretty neat, if a bit on the expositiony side.
And now for my usual plug of the Merrison/Williams audios:
I relistened to "The Lion's Mane" (had to have another listen because I totally missed the Man from U.N.C.L.E. in-joke the first time around. I have to listen again to the one with Tom Baker, too!), and that right there is why I love the Coules audios so much. They are, and I don't use this word lightly, perfect. Practically perfect in every way. Even a story that is not exactly sparkling in canon becomes amazing (but then, I adore two-handers - of course, the only other one I can think of at the moment is Scherzo, which is also spectacular).
The fact that there exists a complete full-cast Holmesian canon, with an excellent budget, phenomenal writers, a marvelous supporting cast (Dame Judi Dench!), and the two most brilliant principals you could possibly hope for - well, I absolutely cannot recommend it enough. If you're a Holmes fan and you haven't listened to these, you're missing out on something incredible. If you're not a Holmes fan and you haven't listened to these, you're still missing out.
...I think this would be some bottled-up Holmes geekiness, there. Blame Bert Coules and Steven Moffat for arguing about Watsons on the OG that one time.
It's always fun to see what they do with the whole "Sherlock Holmes: His Limits" list, because that is Not An Easy Thing to get across in audio. The Coules approach was to have Holmes read it beforehand when Watson fails to totally burn it, and then to launch into a non-sequiturish recitation of it, complete with violin-type accompaniment, while Watson just goes "...Holmes?" Can't beat that. The bizarre dream sequence in this version is pretty neat, if a bit on the expositiony side.
And now for my usual plug of the Merrison/Williams audios:
I relistened to "The Lion's Mane" (had to have another listen because I totally missed the Man from U.N.C.L.E. in-joke the first time around. I have to listen again to the one with Tom Baker, too!), and that right there is why I love the Coules audios so much. They are, and I don't use this word lightly, perfect. Practically perfect in every way. Even a story that is not exactly sparkling in canon becomes amazing (but then, I adore two-handers - of course, the only other one I can think of at the moment is Scherzo, which is also spectacular).
The fact that there exists a complete full-cast Holmesian canon, with an excellent budget, phenomenal writers, a marvelous supporting cast (Dame Judi Dench!), and the two most brilliant principals you could possibly hope for - well, I absolutely cannot recommend it enough. If you're a Holmes fan and you haven't listened to these, you're missing out on something incredible. If you're not a Holmes fan and you haven't listened to these, you're still missing out.
...I think this would be some bottled-up Holmes geekiness, there. Blame Bert Coules and Steven Moffat for arguing about Watsons on the OG that one time.
