{"id":6159,"date":"2013-12-27T14:58:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T19:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6159"},"modified":"2013-12-27T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T22:29:11","slug":"sherlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6159","title":{"rendered":"Sherlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>having seen Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, I like him as Watson a great deal. <\/p>\n<p>However, I have been reading Doyle since I was seven, and Sherlock was never a dick. Oh, he had his little jokes on Watson but he was always loyal and kind to his friend. The idea that snide sarcasm = dizzying intellect is one that appears to be uniquely British, or has a uniquely British impression. I do not think that to be necessary, it detracts from the stories, and it makes the whole series less than it could be, which is brilliant. I don&#8217;t know if it has been written\/directed this way, or of Cumberbund is injecting this into the mix, but it is stupid, unnecessary, and wrong. Do it well, morons, you&#8217;re better than this. <\/p>\n<p>Update: This is the Sherlock I will always think is the best. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JX6a--uu6QM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>having seen Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, I like him as Watson a great deal. However, I have been reading Doyle since I was seven, and Sherlock was never a dick. Oh, he had his little jokes on Watson but he was always loyal and kind to his friend. The idea that snide sarcasm = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}