Capital! Kaye, my dear, I've been a Sherlockian of the first water for decades. You should see my Holmes-related collection. Goodness, it even stretches to dusty first editions of Verlaine. I never tried a pastiche of my own, but was aware of them early on in my studies of The Master and his faithful chronicler.
When a friend in high places at PBS smuggled VHS tapes of the Brett canon to me before it debuted in the U.S., I truly thought I'd died and gone to Holmes Heaven. Not only was the production lovingly faithful to the stories, even to the point of replicating a number of the most beautiful original Paget illustrations in key scenes, but Brett's understanding of Holmes to a nearly cellular depth was a breathtaking realization of what had previously only been the stuff of my imagination. I do hope you're reading the stories, though. There are magnificent moments in them that even the Brett productions bypassed, for some strange reason.
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Date: 2007-07-11 07:21 pm (UTC)When a friend in high places at PBS smuggled VHS tapes of the Brett canon to me before it debuted in the U.S., I truly thought I'd died and gone to Holmes Heaven. Not only was the production lovingly faithful to the stories, even to the point of replicating a number of the most beautiful original Paget illustrations in key scenes, but Brett's understanding of Holmes to a nearly cellular depth was a breathtaking realization of what had previously only been the stuff of my imagination. I do hope you're reading the stories, though. There are magnificent moments in them that even the Brett productions bypassed, for some strange reason.
Welcome to the Holmesian hearth. It's comforting.