Next Who Sunday: Sherlock
Not that we’ll stop talking about Who because who could? But I lost my grip on why I wanted to watch the new Who–to talk about the writing–so I’m going to try it again with seven episodes of new Sherlock, the Steven Moffat (yes, again) reboot of the classic, trying to look at each one in terms of writing (along with fan squee, I’m only human and so are you). The reboot is amazing for several reasons, not the least is its fidelity to the original while making it all new again. So here’s Who Sunday on ARGH for the first two months of 2014, aka Sherlock Sunday, skipping “The Blind Banker” (it’s pretty good) and “The Hound of Baskerville” (it’s not good), ending with the newest three, two weeks after they air so people have time to find them on the net somewhere (I’ll fill in topics for the last three when I’ve seen them):
January 5 “A Study in Pink,” Steven Moffat (Beginnings & Establishing Character)
January 12 “The Great Game,” Mark Gatiss: (Plotting & Escalation)
January 19 “A Scandal in Belgravia,” Steven Moffat (Metaphor and Motif)
January 26 “The Reichenbach Fall,” Steve Thompson: (Climax & Antagonist)
February 2 “The Empty Hearse,” Mark Gatiss
February 9 “The Sign of Three,” Steve Thomson
February 16 “His Last Vow,” Steven Moffat
So the plan is I’ll put up a post with my views on whatever the craft topic is that week, and then the comments can be about anything including fan squee.
And then I have a question about future Sundays. I’m fascinated by what they’re doing narratively on Arrow, and it’s streaming on Netflix (pricier on Amazon Instant, but then you own it), but I’m not wedded to that if you have other preferences. The one requirement: It has to be a series where the writers are doing interesting things (don’t even think about The Mentalist). So let talk about the future of Who Sundays, or whatever we’re going to call it now that Who is on hiatus.
(Note: Another thing in Arrow’s favor: the romantic plots in that are all over the place which would give Pam plenty to write about.)
