Vid for graycardinal: Elementary!

[holmesticemods]

Title: Elementary!
Recipient: graycardinal
Artist/Vidder: beekeaper
Verse: Elementary; Murder by decree, Young Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek Dear Data; The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson; Sherlock Holmes & Joan Watson; Sherlock Holmes & Jane Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Summary: Holmes and Watson's friendship in different versions, the greatest duo, represented by the song "Elementary" from "Sherlock The Musical"

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Comments

[graycardinal]

!!!!!

Oh,fascinating. (And this is certain to put the guessing round into a new and higher gear, because there are AT LEAST two players in our gallery whose wheelhouses include just this sort of intricately composed and expertly choreographed multiversal vid - and probably more, such that I shall need to go back at least to the prior couple of rounds to ensure I'm not missing anyone.)

The source musical here is not one I'd previously come across, and is evidently quite new; it took only a moment's Googlemancy to track down the creators' Web site, and I clearly need to poke a bit further to see how far they've gotten with the project by now. Suffice that what I've heard both in the present vid and in the two short videos on the main page there is intriguing. (It should be noted that they are not first to this party. There was a musical called Baker Street back in the mid-'60s, for which I have the book, and Leslie Bricusse - best remembered today as the composer and lyricist responsible for the classic Rex Harrison movie Doctor Dolittle - wrote Sherlock Holmes: the Musical in the late'80s, then revised it in 2013 as The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes. That said, both those are fairly obscure now, such that there is certainly room for another effort.)

But I digress; let's come back to the present vid - which is very much worth coming back to, as there's a lot going on in quite a compact space. I very much like the juxtaposition here, pairing a song called "Elementary" with a series of well-chosen clips from TV's Elementary...and a notable number of additional and equally apt Holmes-and-Watson moments from a number of my own favorite Holmesian screen iterations. Extra bonus points for the "Caesar and Brutus" / "What?" / "NO!" sequence, which has to have been a bear to stitch together but works dead-bang perfectly in the vid's context. This is a vid that knows what it's about, and does a really good job of getting there. I congratulate the creator on a job well done, and count myself thoroughly pleased to have been this gift's recipient.

[oldshrewsburyian]

Just replying here to say: ah! another Bricusse-enjoyer!

[gardnerhill]

Lovely work.

[oldshrewsburyian]

This is completely charming, and it's a treat to see lesser-known fandoms as well as a beautifully constructed video (I love TNG, and the warmth in Murder by Decree is also a treat here.) And the moment where Sherlock shakes Arthur's hand!

[deelaundry]

Wonderful!

[venusinthenight]

OMGGGGG!

[penaltywaltz]

OMG, this was fantastic! I loved it so very much.

[vulgarweed]

This is SO GREAT!