Sherlock

So...um, yes. Like all of you, I watched series I of Sherlock with total glee, and have been fantasizing about the second series since. Like so many of the BBC Masterpiece anthologies, it was too short for something so delightful, and I find myself wishing it would wear out its welcome with about 20 more episodes this season. Alas.

So, as you can imagine, when I saw that Tor was doing a quick review of various imaginings of Holmes (emphasis on quick--I wouldn't mind something a little more pedantically comprehensive) I followed the jump to read the whole article. I read through without much surprise until I came to this:

"Benedict Cumberbatch"

I am trying to keep my squeals to a mature minimum, but is this, for truth, his name? PLEASE tell me my thus far favorite Holmes adaptation stars Dickensian gentry?

Thad has been insisting we name our first dog "Beric Dondarrion the Lightning Lord," but I'm going to have to vote "Benedict Cumberbatch" for any animal fond of radishes, or exhibiting signs of gout.

Higgledy piggledy,
Benedict Cumberbatch
breaks the Shakespearean
rule with his name.

In TV history
certainly others have
played Sherlock Holmes, but it
isn't the same.




[Photo: Benedict Cumberbatch demands more Higgledy Piggledies!]