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elabyMy Russian Holmes DVDs came in the mail today! After accidentally receiving somebody else's order yesterday ^^;; Which included something like $160 worth of Russian movies and books. Going to send it back when I receive the envelope from the seller.
I watched "The Sign of the Four" tonight, which was remarkably close to canon (except for the cocaine... I missed the cocaine ;_;) and as a result I are a sad Elaby. Because the end of "Sign" is sad. And in this version, Watson just leaves, and Mrs. Hudson gets the "What's left for you, Mr. Holmes?" line, to which he just doesn't answer... because they left out the cocaine. Not that I was really surprised that they did, but I think it's an important frame for the story (not to mention an indication of how lost Holmes is without Watson).
Also, there was random "Scandal in Bohemia" in the middle! Which was interesting, and very short, with an extremely overwrought hereditary king of Bohemia and a great deal of conflicted introspective Holmes.
On the plus side, we did get to see a full scene of Irene Adler in drag, which is always delightful.
But, um. Yeah. There were plenty of wonderful parts, but Baker Street was left very lonely at the end. And the subtitles were word-for-word from the story (even the dialogue quirks of the guy they borrowed Toby from, for instance), which was really cool on the one hand, but on the other hand made me suspicious that that wasn't exactly what they were saying. I need to learn Russian!
Um. I think I might go watch the reunion scene from "The Empty House" to cheer myself up.
I watched "The Sign of the Four" tonight, which was remarkably close to canon (except for the cocaine... I missed the cocaine ;_;) and as a result I are a sad Elaby. Because the end of "Sign" is sad. And in this version, Watson just leaves, and Mrs. Hudson gets the "What's left for you, Mr. Holmes?" line, to which he just doesn't answer... because they left out the cocaine. Not that I was really surprised that they did, but I think it's an important frame for the story (not to mention an indication of how lost Holmes is without Watson).
Also, there was random "Scandal in Bohemia" in the middle! Which was interesting, and very short, with an extremely overwrought hereditary king of Bohemia and a great deal of conflicted introspective Holmes.
On the plus side, we did get to see a full scene of Irene Adler in drag, which is always delightful.
But, um. Yeah. There were plenty of wonderful parts, but Baker Street was left very lonely at the end. And the subtitles were word-for-word from the story (even the dialogue quirks of the guy they borrowed Toby from, for instance), which was really cool on the one hand, but on the other hand made me suspicious that that wasn't exactly what they were saying. I need to learn Russian!
Um. I think I might go watch the reunion scene from "The Empty House" to cheer myself up.
