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[threeplusfire]

Watched a super cool PBS version of "Hound of the Baskervilles." When I read Holmes as a kid, I didn't pick up on all the weirdness to his character, especially the morphine use. And man did I forget how creepy this story was. Ian Hart was the most fabulous Watson I've ever seen. Exactly like I imagined him, like I wanted to be. Because I never wanted to be the main character, I wanted to be one of the cool supporting cast.

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[water-damage.livejournal.com]

I really like what's-his-face Eccleston as watson. and I would so like to fuck the regular sherlock on pbs (but he's dead).

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I feel compelled to read Sherlock Holmes again now.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Christopher Eccleston? Oh, if that's who you mean, I'd never have thought of that as a casting choice but it's perfect. Wow.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a movie or televised Holmes except the old Rathbone one, but I read the stories quite young and loved them. I missed how creepy they were too, but then, functional morphine addiction is a bit sophisticated a concept for an 8-year-old. The Hound of the Baskervilles freaked me out especially, and not even for the reason one might expect (I was and am quite shy of dogs). It's just a deeply eerie storie. Something about the moors, too.
I'm just rambling; your post reminded me of a world I haven't visited in some time.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Ramble away. We don't mind at all.

I think this story is by far the strangest and scariest of the Holmes stories I remember, because it's almost a horror story. The legend of the hound and all that.

That's because he wasn't doing morphine

[curmudgn]

Holmes's drug of choice was cocaine, in a 7:93 solution (cf. the beginning of The Sign of Four).

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Ahh. I thought it was morphine for some reason. Mostly I supposed it was because he was always thinking, and in need of a way to slow that down. But, like I said, it's been an awfully long time since I read the stories. Must go hunt down my copies now.