Posted by Casey on 4/21/2008, 9:09 pm, in reply to "Sherlock Holmes in the _23rd_ Century"
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Yes!!! Thank you thank you thank you! I've been wondering about this episode for the longest time, ever since I'd heard about an SH23 model last year! I wish I'd thought of Netflix!
Maureen, you're a genius!
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: Once upon a time, right before Filmation
: kicked the bucket, they produced a pilot for
: a show named Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd
: Century, as a spinoff of Marshal Bravestarr.
: Now that I've seen it, I highly recommend it
: -- both as Sherlockiana, and as a strong
: influence on our own show.
:
: Filmation hired a lot of young writers who
: went on to long animation careers. This
: particular pilot was written by Bob Forward,
: who would later be responsible for the
: strong story arcs of shows like Beast Wars
: and Roswell Conspiracies. Martha Moran, who
: would later write eps of SH22 for DiC, was
: also a writer for Marshal Bravestarr. But of
: course, in Hollywood it's very common for
: people to pass around scripts and watch each
: others' shows. So the influence carrying
: over is not surprising.
:
: Anyway... SH23 opens at Reichenbach. (Almost
: from the same camera angle. But Reichenbach
: Falls is a real place, many available
: pictures of it were taken from the same
: vantage points, and besides, lots of people
: saw the Granada live action Holmes episode
: filmed there. Moriarty looks like Lon Chaney
: Sr. Holmes and Moriarty struggle, and Holmes
: falls -- into a freak time warp. Moriarty is
: rightly fascinated. Watson doesn't see the
: time warp, but he does see that this is a
: good time to use his service revolver on
: Moriarty. (Alas, he doesn't hit the jerk.)
:
: We cut to the 23rd century -- to New London,
: in fact. This New London is a modern city
: built in a sort of neo-Victorian steampunk
: style. Holmes is saved by an alien doctor
: named W!tsin (voice acted very charmingly).
: He quickly begins to integrate into future
: society. Alas, tobacco is illegal.
:
: However, he does have at least one relative
: -- one Mycroft (aka "Mike" or
: "Mikey") Holmes, a Scotland Yard
: "agent" working under the
: redheaded Chief Inspector Kitty Lestrade.
: Holmes instantly "deduces" who
: Mycroft is because Mycroft wears a nametag.
:
: Holmes also encounters and recruits some
: Irregulars. Early in the ep there are three
: boys busily pickpocketing and conning money
: out of passersby. The third boy disappears
: and is replaced by some kind of
: Shar-Pei/bulldog mix named Baskerville, who
: has Toby's olfactory powers.
:
: Did I mention the visit to the Sherlock
: Holmes Museum? Or the newscaster who keeps
: breaking in - but on a hologram TV built
: into the lampposts??
:
: There really are a lot of similarities, but
: not in a plagiarism sort of way. It's clear
: that our show was designed not to do things
: the same way as SH23 did, but they do seem
: to have been interested in many of the same
: things. I'm also not mentioning some of the
: biggest features of SH23 because they're
: spoilers!
:
: All in all, a very interesting look at how
: things might have been. Those of you who
: have Netflix will definitely want to rent
: the Bravestarr Season 1 Part 1 DVD set. As
: for me, I thought the pilot was worth the
: price of the DVDs all by itself, although I
: do intend to watch Marshal Bravestarr. (It
: seems like a very nifty little cartoon.)
:
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