And the poll says. . .

I posted a link to a poll a few weeks back, and here is how it stands as of now. I guess it all depends on how you found Holmes. Not surprised by B.C., but am by RDJ.

I am surprised Brett is not a little further up. Generations using computers I guess.

So who's the best Sherlock of all time? (Poll Closed)

Benedict Cumberbatch 48.28%  

 

Robert Downey Jr. 44.9%  

 

Jeremy Brett 4.4%  

 

Jonny Lee Miller 1.28%  

 

Basil Rathbone 0.7%  

 

Other: 0.21%  

 

Peter Cushing 0.15%  

 

Nicol Williamson 0%  

 

Reading list for March. . .

Depending on who you follow. . . .

STUD  -  1884
YELL  -  1884
SCAN -   1888
COPP  -  1890
3GAB -  1893
WIST  -  1895
DEVI  -  1897

Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely movie. . . .

"Her Majesty Mrs. Brown" along with several Rathbone/Bruce Holmes movies are, at this time, free to watch on Amazon Prime..

Just thought you would like to know.

Also just called "Mrs. Brown", it is a very good movie.

B.C's photobomb!

Story here.  See, . . Sherlock does have a sense of humor

'Elementary' - Season Two, Episode 16 (40) - "One Percent Solution" - a review

Finally! An episode that requires no searching to find good things to say about it. It has been a while.

Sherlock and Watson are called in to investigate a bombing at a restaurant where several players in high finance are either killed or wounded.
While at the crime scene Sherlock discovers one of the banks has sent it's own investigator, who turns out to be Holmes' old friend Lestrade.

For me, this was a top notch episode that should set the standard for what the others should strive for.
Although it was not without it's seemly required double entendre's, it was kept pretty middle, almost to the point where it was working.

I liked Sean Pertwee as Lestrade the first time he came around and I think he did an even better job this time.
The relationship picks up once again where it left off when Holmes was last in London, that being Lestrade taking the credit for Holmes' solutions and now using Holmes' methods as a form of publicity for himself and his discussion forum circuit. This assumption of credit also lands Lestrade a high paying job with one of the banks that lost employees in the bombing.

What was really fun about this episode was that Pertwee's character ran through all the characteristics of the relationship between Holmes and Lestrade that is to be found in the Canon. From jealousy and contempt, all the way to respect and admiration.
In the beginning of the episode we see Lestrade as someone who thinks of himself on equal footing as the great detective, at least in his own mind. We also see a Holmes that does not feel he is required to dispell this notion.
We see Sherlock responding by encouraging Lestrade to follow his own leads using his own methods, knowing this will keep Lestrade out of the way.
We then see Lestrade finding he is not quite up to the task and reluctantly coming to Holmes for help, but still not quite convinced he hasn't got it right yet.
And finally we see a Lestrade who realizes he is out of his league and is better served by relaying on Holmes.

I also think Miller's Holmes played well against these changes in Lestrade as the episode went along, and I think was one of the strongest Canonical references yet.
Miller's Holmes was much more, dare I say, professional and restrained, and much more in style of the character we have come to know as Sherlock Holmes. Most of the displays of the fetishes and quirkiness that has made the show sometimes almost unbearable were well underplayed in this episode.
I liked the fact that Miller's Holmes found Lestrade a distraction while actually working on the case, I thought that a very good Canonical nod. Canonically Holmes has a need for Lestrade, but not when the case is needing to be solved.
And in the end we also learn Pertwee's Lestrade has a professional line he will not cross (letting murderers go) giving Lestrade back a little of the character that makes him a good 'sidekick' for canonical Holmes.
He was a somewhat methodical police officer who found his career shattered, only to, thanks to Holmes, land squarely in a good situation that like a mediocre actor getting the fame he craves, only to find he is not ready for it. Coming back down to earth, we see Lestrade finally excepting who he really is.

Lestrade's assistant was a good treat, and gave Joan someone to play off of, and also firmly told us that Joan does not consider herself an 'assistant'.

In this tour-de-force between Holmes, Lestrade and Watson it gave the other regulars in the show little to do, but. . . that was okay.

This episode also found Holmes doing most of the grunt work and Watson helping in a more Watson like way.

Canonical nods I found.

- "When you've eliminated the impossible . ."
- The relationship between Holmes and Lestrade
- Holmes encouraging Lestrade to follow his own leads, however erroneous.
- Lestrade thinking Holmes is on the wrong path.
- in the end, Lestrade telling others Holmes is a great detective
- knowledge of chemicals
- knowledge of related literature
-Lestrade's drinking habits


My simple mind did not get the meaning of the title to this episode till almost done writing this review.
That only goes to prove I am firmly planted in the 99%.

On my now famous rating scale, I give this episode  . . .

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode.

Heading west.

Gonna be gone for a few days, so blog my not get as much attention as it should.
See ya soon.

The man whose muscles made women faint: How Britain's first bodybuilder was the father of modern fitness And yes! There is a Sherlockian connection.

Here is the story!

This looks like it could have been fun. . .

Sherlock Holmes 4D

I wonder what ever came of it?
















Link to the creator

Kit Kat Bar is number one! And there is a Sherlockian connection if you dig deep.

Story Here!

And all the rest.

While looking for a picture of Sir Arthur skiing, I came across this site, which I had not seen. . . .

 Here

Introduction | His Life | Fiction | Military | Sport | Spiritualism | True Crime | ACD Quiz     “Sir,- As one who has sampled most British sports, may I say a word about baseball?”  There you have it: a man who was interested in - seemingly - everything, sport being no exception. He took part in various sports, wrote about them and - as in the case quoted above - engaged in controversy about them. Sir Arthur was not exaggerating when he wrote to the Editor of The Times that he had “sampled most British sports”; he certainly had. In his Memories and Adventures, first published in the Strand Magazine, he rightly, if harshly, describes himself as an all-rounder and a second-rater. Dismissing horse racing as not really as sport at all, and shooting animals as barbarous (he excludes fishing, acknowledging the inconsistency), he extols the virtues of boxing. Doyle recalls some of his own experiences of boxing, including an end-of-the-night match which involved boxing in his formal evening clothes.  While praising the benefits of boxing with gloves, Sir Arthur expresses his opinion that the old prize-ring (that is, bare-knuckled boxing) was an excellent thing “from a national point of view…. Better that our sports should be a little too rough than that we should run a risk of effeminacy.” If, Doyle suggests, boxing is the finest single-man sport, rugby is the best collective one, needing “strength, courage, speed and resource [which] are great qualities to include in a single sport.” He wasn’t so keen on the variations of rugby which were popular at some public schools - they are, he says, “freak games” and a national misfortune, for which “our youths are wasting their energies.” As usual, Sir Arthur had a ready opinion on the subject. Doyle was a keen skier, helping to map cross-country routes in Switzerland. When skiing was curtailed by the melting of the snow, he laid out a golf course, but had trouble preventing the Swiss cows (obviously an unsporting lot) chewing the hole flags. Doyle popularized skiing in Switzerland * Doyle’s love of cricket dated from his school days, and continued throughout his life. He turned out for the Allah-Akabarries, a celebrity team including JM Barrie and AEW Mason, author of The Four Feathers. The team name, a combination of Barrie’s name and the Arabic phrase meaning “May God help us”, might not be considered very correct today. Of course, Doyle had strong opinions about cricket, and expressed them in print. Few people would have demurred from his high praise for the recently-dead cricketing hero, WG Grace: “The world will be the poorer to many of us for [his] passing… a masterful personality… made an impression which could never be forgotten.” Doyle casually drops into his article (in The Times), the fact that “I have had the privilege of fielding at point more than once while he made his hundred.”  Doyle bowls out WG Wells * Whether he counted motoring as a sport is not clear; what is quite clear that he was one of this country’s first motorists. He liked the idea of motoring so much that he made a journey of more than 170 miles to buy a car, only taking his first drive on the journey home with his new toy. As for other sporting pursuits - you name it, he probably tried it. Was he a dabbler, a dilettante? Yes, he was, self-confessed. But he put his experiences to good use: in much of his fiction his heroes (fairly) and his villains (no doubt unfairly) engage in many of the sports Sir Arthur tested out on their behalf. Their sporting prowess, or lack of it, was a key indicator of their character as gentlemen or cads, and their exploits greatly enrich his stories. -David Oldman Sport related work by Conan Doyle can be found in: Memories & Adventures (1924)  Reference copies of this is available under category 819.3 in the Sherlock Holmes Collection. Or you may search for lending copies in the Westminster Libraries: Search Catalogue You may also search in the Times Digital Archives Database from the Westminster Libraries online services page for some of Doyle's letters to the editor. Many of these articles are about Sport.