Tuesday, February 1, 2011

You didn't need the next three hours, did you?

TV Tropes

I have to tell you, I'm committing a slight breach of netiquette in even linking directly to That Site.  It is a time-suck extraordinaire, not so much a wiki walk as it is the pop-culture equivalent of Ulysses' trip home.

But I found this wonderful bit of of trivia: apparently, when reviewing the new BBC Sherlock Holmes' adaptation, a writer for Auntie Beeb assumed that Watson being a veteran of the war in Afghanistan was part of the modern updating of the story.

NOPE!

It's Afghanistan.  Mind you, throw a dart at a timeline, there's probably a war in Afghanistan that year.

(Can I say that I adore the update?  Also?  Benedict Cumberbatch.  Not only is his name fun to say, he's got a really nice voice.  Apparently, he's done some books on tape that I will clearly need to find to soothe my commute...)

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