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 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:08 am
Cartoon Network's new Batman series "The Brave & The Bold", based on the DC Comics team-up comic of the same name that used to team Batman with all sorts of DC heroes, had him teamed with Etrigan, The Demon in Victorian London. And Holmes & Watson are there trying to solve the same series of crimes, so Batman kind of teams with them too.
This series, however, is clearly aimed at young kids and has a bad habit of dumbing everything down badly and making everyone except Batman act very childishly Aquaman is an especially horrific example.
Unfortunately, this episode really STINKS OUT LOUD.
--Holmes wears his deerstalker in London.
--Watson looks like Frankenstein's monster or something.
--Holmes immediately "deduces" that there are supernatural forces involved in the crimes, and accepts magic and demons as though an everyday matter, with no attempt to seek normal-world clues and solutions.
--Holmes deductions all fall in the category of "Holmes said it so it is obviously a brilliant deduction of the truth", instead of actually piecing it out with clues.
--Batman explains he knows Holmes is Holmes because he is wearing a deerstalker, then later elaborates by just saying "you're the world's greatest detective" (in other words, there is no logic to this story at all).
--Costuming in general is atrocious. Looks more 18th-century than late-19th.
So in short, you might watch this because, well, it's HOLMES...but be prepared to be appalled. Think of it as practice for when Robert Downey hits the screen. burning_eyes
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:05 pm
You see now why I hate Basil Rathbone? I will never forgive him for dragging Sherlock Holmes to the ledge of a roof of a skyscraper to do battle with a hypnotist.
*headdesk*
But considering my first encounter with Holmes was on a PBS show named "Wishbone", in which a jack russell terrier teaches life lessons by playing out abbreviated versions of classic stories [in this case, The Hound of the Baskervilles], I won't say too much against it.
Rope 'em in early, and hope they'll discover the true cannon later.
Since you do find yourself watching Cartoon Network occasionally, I might point out an episode of Ben 10: Alien Force to you.
I've got a thing about being able to identify voice actors fairly quickly, so when I heard David McCullum's voice on that show ["Ducky" from NCIS. And he was Merlin in the first Brave & the Bold episode with Etrigan... I admit it, I watch it sometimes. I'm a masochist, OK?] I had to pause my channel surfing and watch,
and to my surprise it was coming out of an animated Sidney Piaget illustration.
The character isn't meant to be Sherlock Holmes- he's actually some researcher/mad scientist that was working on some project for the government when [guess what?] things went horribly wrong, but there is absolutely no mistaking that the design was based on Sidney Piaget's illustrations of Holmes.
Even my best friend, who has barely read the cannon, immediately identified the character as Holmes when I first showed it to her.
"Sherlock has a cartoon show now?"
There's a video for it on Truveo, or you could just read the summary of it on Wikipedia, but you should check out the Truveo link to see what I'm talking about.
It was hilarious.
The ending paid a bit more homage to the Rathbone-Bruce Sherlock Holmes than I'd like, but it was still cute. It's really odd seeing Holmes dragged into this century, though. It never comes out right.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:32 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:27 pm
T h e s t e p H
You see now why I hate Basil Rathbone? I will never forgive him for dragging Sherlock Holmes to the ledge of a roof of a skyscraper to do battle with a hypnotist.
*headdesk*
But considering my first encounter with Holmes was on a PBS show named "Wishbone", in which a jack russell terrier teaches life lessons by playing out abbreviated versions of classic stories [in this case, The Hound of the Baskervilles], I won't say too much against it.
Rope 'em in early, and hope they'll discover the true cannon later.
Since you do find yourself watching Cartoon Network occasionally, I might point out an episode of Ben 10: Alien Force to you.
I've got a thing about being able to identify voice actors fairly quickly, so when I heard David McCullum's voice on that show ["Ducky" from NCIS. And he was Merlin in the first Brave & the Bold episode with Etrigan... I admit it, I watch it sometimes. I'm a masochist, OK?] I had to pause my channel surfing and watch,
and to my surprise it was coming out of an animated Sidney Piaget illustration.
The character isn't meant to be Sherlock Holmes- he's actually some researcher/mad scientist that was working on some project for the government when [guess what?] things went horribly wrong, but there is absolutely no mistaking that the design was based on Sidney Piaget's illustrations of Holmes.
Even my best friend, who has barely read the cannon, immediately identified the character as Holmes when I first showed it to her.
"Sherlock has a cartoon show now?"
There's a video for it on Truveo, or you could just read the summary of it on Wikipedia, but you should check out the Truveo link to see what I'm talking about.
It was hilarious.
The ending paid a bit more homage to the Rathbone-Bruce Sherlock Holmes than I'd like, but it was still cute. It's really odd seeing Holmes dragged into this century, though. It never comes out right.
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