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Could be my age showing—make that resistance thereto—but I think I’ve grown somewhat open to (read: less than 100% against) remakes or re-imaginings, though the final product will invariably determine my verdict. “H50”, for instance, is a mediocre cops-on-location show that doesn’t even have the once-exotic setting going for it anymore; the BBC have done a far better job of incorporating the change in times for homeboy Shirley. I like his use of the hard drive metaphor for the human brain, if only because I’ve always complained how much the limited capacity of my huge head is like the 200MB 386/33 tower in my storage versus my wife’s newer, more compact desktop.

Found this gem in there, too, the actual howdunnit closer to They Might Be Giants than The Return of Sherlock Holmes, which if anything, reveals more of how far along the Joker’s come than the Victorian-era property.Oh, and the Doctor Who writers show their hand with their wonderful reinvention of Moriarty as well, who goes from inspiring the Master to taking after the opposing yet complementary nature of the villain, the kind of existential interplay that Conan Doyle probably couldn’t foresee for his one-shot menace (nor the benefit to sales, like Batman’s): “consulting criminal,” indeed.

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