I Just Started The Soviet Holmes And From What I've Seen From The First Two Episodes I Love Watson's

I just started the soviet holmes and from what i've seen from the first two episodes I love Watson's characterization here. Like they give him proper interactions and personality throughout the episode its great. Its a very nice contrast to the usual issue tv adaptations have where they don't give Watson enough to do. Because he is the narrator of the books, without him needing to narrate anymore they don't know what to do with him. I love how he suspects Holmes of being a criminal in the first episode, it makes sense for him to think that way with the limited information he has on Holmes. They keep his militaristic mannerisms and edge without making him rude or mean. I absolutely love it. As of right now this is probably my favorite Watson adaptiation i've seen.

Literally how could adaptations make him such a bitch when he cares so strongly

How can ppl ever characterize Sherlock Holmes as unfeeling when there are such sweet tender moments like this 😭

He does such a good depiction of Holmes bro he is so accurate with the details its lovely

The Basil Rathbone adaptation was my introduction into the Holmes stories. I wish the radio adaptations were as popular as the TV ones. Radio in itself is such a fun media and I love to see it talked about

Did you know that Holmes has a very long and extensive history on radio? As much as I can name you a TV Holmes actor for each decade, there's one to correspond on radio.

William Gillette was one of the first to play Holmes on radio, followed by Arthur Wontner. Since then, Holmes has been played by many actors in many countries on the "theatre in air"!

Basil Rathbone and Carleton Hobbs are some of the biggest names besides of course, Clive Merrison. Did you know that Edward Hardwicke's father even played Holmes in a radio episode of The Speckled Band?

There's John Gielgud and Tom Conway. There's a short series with Edward Petherbridge (one of my personal favourites), the list goes on 🥰

We have more a recent series with John Patrick Lowrie, and many others outside of anglophone radio, such as the Maritim Hoerspiel series with Christian Rode, a French series with several Holmeses, or this Russian HOUN adaptation.

I have some useful places for finding many Holmes radio series - including very niche ones! Youtube and the Internet Archive is also your friend.

I just wanted to set the record straight. "Radio!Holmes" will never be one singular Holmes, to me. There are too many to point to just one! Holmes's trip through radio is a fascinating one and I highly recommend having a look!

I just watched "The King of Blackmail" soviet adaptation and omg I loved it so much. This case has always been very interesting to me, like Watson and Holmes literally break into this dudes house, witness a murder, and leave. Like the woman who kills Milverton came out of nowhere. The case kinda solves itself. I love this case don't get me wrong but it is formatted so differently to the others. There isn't much of an investigation. They know the who the "guilty" party is and they go to obtain the doccuments. This case reminds me a lot of A Scandal In Bohemia in the way they both involve breaking into somewhere to get blackmail. Although in this case, Sherlock is on the side of morality as opposed to in Bohemia he is technically in the wrong morally. I love the beginning scene with Mycroft. They did a great job at showing his dynamic with Holmes while still showing off his better deduction skills.

Having Watson interrupt Milverton during their negotiation in 221B was also very cool. Watson's strong sense of morality and justice making him lash out at Milverton's corrupt business practices. Holmes having to remind Watson to be civil was cool too. Even though they both think Milverton is unethical. Watson grabbing a chair to strike him with when he pulled out his weapon was cool. It shows off his quick call to action during threatening situations. I love this adaptation of Watson. They keep his shorter temper while maintaining his sense of duty and justice. When he speaks with Holmes about his plan to break into Milverton's place to steal the letters he is conflcted with the legality of the situation. Holmes takes advantage of Watson's sense of duty and reminds him of their client and how Milverton deserves this. The morality and legality of the situation are so cool. Not to mention Watson insisting he come with Holmes. It is either they both go or neither and I love that. The musical direction and cinematography of the burglury scene are wonderful. I love how this adaptation is presented. Like half of the episode is dedicated to setting up the case and the other half is the proper investigation/solving of the case.

Having the duo leave behind evidence when they're roaming around is interesting. Holmes even mentions this, he says that even though he solves crimes for a living, he wasn't even able to hide his own evidence. Overall this was a lovely episode I loved it lol.

Watson canonically having doctor handwriting is so real. Like of course his handwriting is bad it just makes sense.I like to think that he writes too fast and thats why its so hard to read. He’s just in a hurry to get his thoughts down before he forgets and it like smudges and shit.

I headcanon that Sherlock used to have horrible handwriting. Like he was the only one who could read his notes and such, he wouldnt even look away from his experiment when writing notes. I like to imagine that he had to practice it and now his handwriting looks as dull as possible. Like he replicates computer fonts with his handwriting to subconsciously avoid handwriting analysis. I can see him taking notes electronically now though. He still does physical notes sometimes, but when he’s in a hurry his notes get illegible