Do you find yourself shuffling around muttering "but seriously, how did he survive the fall?" Do strangers nervously back away from you when you randomly say, "Did you miss me? How can they leave it like that?!" At a bus stop. Or is that just me?
If so, you may be suffering from post-Sherlock blues.
Fear not! There is hope for you. Series 4
has been commissioned and in the meantime, here are some suggestions to tide you over, in the hopefully-not-two-years until series 4 airs...
Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start
Re-watch the series from the beginning. Enjoy Sherlock & John's budding bromance--Mrs Hudson is not alone in her assumptions--and see how fast
you can solve it. Netflix has the first two series, in both the UK and USA versions at the moment, or there are of course the DVDs and Blurays. Spin them out for as long as possible, watching all the extras for once, and of course keep a notebook beside you to jot down clues!
Series 3 comes out on the 20th of January, if you deleted it by mistake. Quelle horreur!
Read (or re-read) the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle works
If you don't already have the original Conan-Doyle stories, then you should treat yourself to this
gorgeous leatherbound edition which contains the four novels and 56 short stories. At £16.25 it's a bit of a bargain! To get an even better look at the book, which is quite frankly majestic, take a
look here. Go on, I'll wait... Isn't it
gorgeous?
If you fear being crushed beneath the weight of this tome, then perhaps a Kindle edition might be less intimidating?
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection may be more up your street. At £1.99 it's more expensive than some of the other Sherlock Holmes collections available on Amazon, but it's the only one I've seen which hasn't been needlessly fiddled with, or missing stories.
Go to the theatre
A couple of years ago Dave and I saw an amazing production of
The Hound of the Baskervilles at the (now defunct) Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton. Since then I've been rather keen to see more of Holmes at the theatre.
The Pleasance Theatre Trust in London, is putting on a production of
The Final Revelation of Sherlock Holmes in February and March 2014.
Read a comic... |
via SelfMadeHero |
SelfMadeHero have published all four of the Sherlock Holmes novels in graphic novel adaptations. (That's comics, if you don't speak geek.) They're rather good; the depictions of Holmes and Watson are very close to the original drawings and the adaptation to comic art cuts out bits of (unnecessary) waffle. Well worth a read--we've got three of them so far and I totally recommend them.
Visit the Sherlock Holmes Museum
If you're in London, then why not take a trip to the
Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221B Baker Street? I haven't been--yet--but Dave took a couple of friends there and they had a great time. I wouldn't make a special trip, but if you're in London anyway, it's worth a look!
Watch the classics and the new pretenderBefore
Sherlock came out, I was always a staunch defender of the Jeremy Brett,
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. To me, it was the Definitive Holmes, just as David Suchet is the Definitive Poirot. But then I fell in love with
Sherlock, and his war-damaged John. By the time
Elementary came out, I was derisive and adamantly against John Watson becoming Joan Watson...you'll never guess what's coming. I adore
Elementary. It may save brainache on my part if I just view them all as AU or Elseworlds versions... They're all fabulous in their own way, and Watson has the patience of a saint, regardless of gender.
So there you have it. Plenty of Holmesian ways to amuse yourself while you wait patiently (or not-so) for
Sherlock to return to our screens. Alternatively, you could curl up into a little ball and cry.
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