Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes

Official trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQbmFAE5WI

Ok, so.
I adore RDJ. I think he's brilliant. I've loved just about everything I've ever seen him do and I have no doubt that he's done very thorough research into this role.

But he's not Sherlock Holmes.

I've watched the trailer a few times, and it looks like massive fun, but..he's too damn pretty, there's too much action, and he kisses a lady? Is left handcuffed in bed?

Even when I was writing Holmes fanfic as a teenager, I didn't go there.

And, to steal a phrasing from the Whovians, Jeremy Brett is "my" Holmes.

I'll watch this movie, and I already love the merchandising, but I rather wish they'd just gone with some other generic new detective and not Holmes.

ETA: It is a sad, sad testament to my geekitude that, while filling out this contest entry and seeing the title of "Prof" was listed in a drop down menu, I immediately wanted to fill out an entry for Prof Moriarity.

(Please let there be a few of you reading who would want to do the same thing.)

Unhappy birthday!

There is a city in New Mexico, mostly unknown to most of us, that sits pretty much in the middle of its state along Rt 66.

This city? Moriarty, New Mexico.

A careful perusal of the above rather modest website reveals nothing of why this town should be (in)famous. Indeed, a scouring of the internet brings back little information about the town's dubious claim to fame, and oh I suspect this shows evidence that the Napoleon of Crime's infrastructure remains intact lo these many many years.

Once Upon a Time, and far too long ago now, a branch of the Baker Street Irregulars known as "The Brothers Three of Moriarty" gathered at the Frontier Saloon on (if memory serves me correctly) October 31st for their annual Unhappy Birthday You B*stard Moriarty 'celebration.'

And I am blogging this because of the following snippet of IM conversation tonight:

elionwyr: I really wish I could have attended just one of the Unhappy Birthday You B*stard Moriarty events
lionel: of these i am not familiar
elionwyr: It's ok.
elionwyr: It's a special sort of geekery that is
lionel: which confirms your geekdom

..Oh yes. Yes it does.


(For those who are reading this going, "Napoleon of what? Click here. Sigh.)

The many faces of Holmes and Moriarty

(FB peeps, click through for the link)

Some of the many faces of Sherlock Holmes (and yes, that includes Tom Baker)


And..Professor Moriarty (not nearly as long a video)