Doctor Who and Sherlock

Discussion in 'Doctor Who' started by Sparky, Dec 13, 2013.

  1. Sparky

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    [yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bGYljQ5Uw[/yt]

    Amazingly well done, and after watching this it's something that I really wish could happen
     
  2. sttngfan1701d

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    I thought it was real for awhile. Then I noticed that it looked just a little too....CGI and I was like "Did Peter Jackson film this? It looks like a video game."

    But for what it is, it's well done. Well put together.
     
  3. Gov Kodos

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    Imagine the awesome of Sherlock and the Doctor looking for Gallifrey?
     
  4. Starkers

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    EMH posted this in the Who humour thread. It isn't perfect but it's still quite nicely done all things considered.
     
  5. Tom

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    The only part that was pretty fake was when the doctor was talking and looking to his right and Sherlock was on his left. Otherwise good body substitution (Clara/Sherlock) when he enters the Tardis.
     
  6. Starkers

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    Yes it was a bit odd, made the Doctor look like he was blind.
     
  7. Mark_Nguyen

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    There's also the lack of movement on the Doctor's part. Smith consciously keeps his character moving with a Chaplin or Buster-esque quality so seeing him standing still for so long is distracting. I know why this was done for the purposes of this work, but it unfortunately stands out in what is otherwise a fantastic bit of fun.

    Mark
     
  8. YellowSubmarine

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    Do it, Moffat. Just do it. Do it!
     
  9. kirk55555

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    The video may have a few problems, but I think its done very well considering what they had to work with. That would be an awesome crossover.
     
  10. auntiehill

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    OH, how I wish this scene would actually happen. Those two shows together would be all kinds of awesome.
     
  11. Timelord Victorious

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    Now throw in Dirk Gently and then you have something. XD
     
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    Honestly. I 'm surprised this hasn't been a Mini-sode, or a CiN special by now.
     
  14. Sindatur

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    There was a CNN (Or was it FOX?) Special. Meghan Kelley declared she had proof that Khan and Santa Claus are definitely White (True Story..,Almost :alienblush: )

    Oh wait, you said CiN, sorry, I read that as a News channel :alienblush:
     
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    What if that's what the Christmas Day Sherlock minisode is? :)

    Seriously, though, I could see a Sherlock/Who crossover as a Children in Need thing, not unlike the Doctor Who/Call the Midwife thing.

    Moffat has said the two shows wouldn't work together; Sherlock's ratiocination would be an ill-fit to the Doctor's chaos.
     
  17. Timelord Victorious

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    Wouldn't that be sort of the point? ;)
     
  18. Allyn Gibson

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    I would think so. :)

    Matt Smith certainly was up for it, at least a cameo. :)

    Moffat's objection, as I remember it, was that the Doctor lives in an impossible world of Daleks and time travel, while Sherlock Holmes lives in a world of ordered evidence and logic. Andy Lane made use of that in his Doctor Who novel All-Consuming Fire; Holmes' deductive abilities were useless when confronted with someone who could travel anywhere in a TARDIS.

    I, personally, think it could work. If not a full crossover episode where the Doctor and Sherlock meet, perhaps an episode on each series that showed the Doctor and Sherlock working the same adventure/case, running into the same people, but never quite meeting. I think the challenge of that -- to make two stories that work independently but work beautifully together -- would have appealed greatly to Moffat.
     
  19. Starkers

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    At the very least a minisode would have been fun :)
     
  20. Saul

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    A 5 minute charity piece would have been fantastic. Cumberbatch and Smith are the height of Moffat writing and would have played so well off each other.