--- In [email protected], s3raphita wrote: > > The series creator and writer Mark Gatiss also plays Mycroft. He's so snooty and superior he's a hoot and I always enjoy his appearances.
That's cool. Somehow I'd never noticed that. He does wind up giving his character some of the best lines. If there is anyone snootier than Sherlock, it's Mycroft. :-) > Sherlock in the original stories was always passionately on the side of justice and defending the "little man". I think Benedict Cumberbatch (what a ghastly name!) plays Sherlock as a little *too* cold and aloof. Sherlock's persona in this series is not exactly true to the original, but part of the series' schtick. As the character himself put it in the opening episode when a policeman accused him of being a psychopath within his hearing, "I am *not* a psychopath; I'm a high-functioning sociopath." :-)
