Briefly, due to being a wedding guest (no alien intervention yet!)

[selenak]

I'm in the Duisburg area this weekend, apropos a wedding and meeting good friends again, which means little online time, which means no proper review. But I did watch the latest Sarah Jane Adventures 3.07 & 3.08 The Eternity Trap, and enjoyed it a lot. Favourite single moment was probably Rani's quick Holmes imitation, it was weird to watch Callum Bue in Restoration era costume when you only know him from Dead Like Me, and Phil Ford evidentally had great fun penning a Haunted House story. Complete with visual homage to The Others. I love this show.

Also, I see there's a trailer for film called Nowhere Boy which appears to be dealing with young John Lennon. With sizable roles for Mimi and Julia, and since the trailer already has some of the more famous quotes that make it into every biography ("John, your little friend is here!") , the scriptwriter seems to have done his or her homework:

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[jesuswasbatman]

The "huge eye seen through magnifying glass" is actually an iconographic visual quote from the Hammer Frankenstein films (which are mostly rated so leniently on home video nowadays that the audience might well have watched them). Although Peter Cushing did play Holmes for Hammer as well, pretty decently despite his lack of height.

[selenak]

I remember him in Hound of the Baskervilles (with Christopher Lee as Stapleton), but saw only one of the Frankensteins from which I didn't recall the huge eye thing. However, Rani also picked up a pipe which surely is more Holmesian than anything else?