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[darchildre]

I had downloaded Big Finish's Sherlock Holmes and the Ripper because, honestly, I will read/watch/listen to pretty much anything that contains that combination of characters. Or at least give it a try, anyway. Alas, I think I am going to have to give up halfway through. Holmes is basically all right - not Clive Merrison or anything, but he's workable - but Watson is far too Jam!Watson to be in any way acceptable.* I have been spoiled by superior Watsons of late and really don't want to go back to the jammy kind. (I may have to finish it eventually, just to see who they picked as the Ripper. They seemed to be doing both Freemasons and Walter Sickert and I don't know which way it's going to end up. Or I suppose we could be combining them a la Stephen Knight.)

On the other hand, this evening Netflix provided me with a substitute in the form of Murder By Decree, in which Christopher Plummer plays Sherlock Holmes and investigates the Ripper murders and Watson is decidedly unjammy. I'm about halfway through and may have to stop for the evening because I'm sleepy but I'm thoroughly enjoying it.



*Jam!Watson is really a terribly useful term.

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[quigonejinn]

Jam!Watson is incredibly useful. :D