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Originally Posted by Nyssa
My husband and I were actually talking about his morning. Is that his given name? I can't imagine him as a a baby or young child; talk about the burden of having a name "bigger" than you are.  |
It is--or most of it--his full name given at birth is Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch. BTW he is going to be the voice of Smaug and also The Necromancer in the coming continuations of
The Hobbit.
I love him in
Sherlock. Steven Moffat who wrote the series said that he has simply elaborated on the Doyle stories--sometimes quite cleverly. Watson was shot in the shoulder by a Jezail bullet in
A Study In Scarlet but in a later story Watson says he was shot in the leg. Moffat has
his Watson wounded in the shoulder while in Afghanistan but suffering psychologically from a phantom pain in his leg {which is why he uses a cane).
Moffat also admired the Rathbone/Bruce Holmes films from the late thirties and forties. And there are a number of cinematic nods to them as well.
Personally I think the series is a
tour de force but not for the purist--you have to go to Jeremy Brett if you want the stories very close to the Doyle originals. I wouldn't be without any of the three versions. I think there's room for them all.