“J.J. Abrams and his team originally were considering Benicio Del Toro for the role of the villain, but talks broke down about a month ago,” says TrekMovie. “Following that the team began looking at other actors including Edgar Ramirez. A source tells TrekMovie that Cumberbatch ‘blew them all away’ with his audition.”
Cumberbatch, is, of course, motherfucking Sherlock, and also showed up in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Steven Spielberg’s Battle Pony, and he’ll be Smaug in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies. He is fantastic, as anyone who has ever seen Sherlock can attest (especially the most recent one, which how great was that), and this news is entirely awesome, which is why I have expressed more enthusiasm in this single paragraph than I have in real life for the entirety of the past three months.
BUT IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT I THINK. Do yourself a favor and head over to the comments at TrekMovie, home to my favorite commenters on the internet! (After a few of you Blogtown residents, I guess.) The thread is full of comments like this one, which, obviously, speak for themselves.
I DIDN’T PARTICULARLY CARE FOR THE LATEST EPISODE OF SHERLOCK. IT SEEMED LIKE A WHOLE LOT OF FAN SERVICE AND NOT A WHOLE LOT OF ACTUALLY GOOD TV.
I feel like, regardless of talent or gender, this is exactly the life I would have if I’d been named Benedict Cumberbatch.
I’m telling you guys, he’s gonna be Mudd.
Graham: I… I felt the same way.
This is the most amazing news ever announced since the beginning of the internet.
I loved the new episode of Sherlock! I liked it better than anything in the first season—it was more mystery-y.
I just started watching Sherlock (btw, I love all things Holmes) and somehow have missed that his name is Benedict Cumerbatch as I have been so distracted by having Hitchhiker Arthur as Watson. That is an awesome name. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
I think he will be an excellent Star Trek nemesis and I am looking forward to spotting him in Tinker Tailor.
Cumerbatch out!
Dude, there are TWO “b”s in his last name. It just keeps getting better.
Cumberbatch out!
I’m hyperventilating at this news. Seriously. I need my inhaler.
@ALISON: IN MY MIND, A GOOD PIECE OF MYSTERY WRITING HAS TO HAVE ALL THE CLUES AVAILABLE TO THE AUDIENCE. SOME OF THAT OCCURRED IN THIS EPISODE, BUT THAT WHOLE SECTION WITH THE KEYCODE TO THE SAFE WAS OBFUSCATED FROM THE AUDIENCE. IT WAS OVERALL A GOOD EPISODE, NO DOUBT… BUT I STILL FELT LIKE IT WAS PANDERING; OR MAYBE THAT THEY WERE TOO CAUGHT UP IN THE IDEA OF HOW COOL THINGS COULD BE RATHER THAN ACTUALLY MAKING THINGS BE COOL.
OMG I am an internet moron! Where are you all watching the first episode of Season 2? Am I the only pansy that doesn’t torrent shows?
@JRILEY: YES.
Alison: Please make someone make a Sherlock discussion thigny, because I have some Issues with that episode and I don’t want to ruin it for people who don’t like things ruined by obsessive dorks on the internet.
“I DIDN’T PARTICULARLY CARE FOR THE LATEST EPISODE OF SHERLOCK. IT SEEMED LIKE A WHOLE LOT OF FAN SERVICE AND NOT A WHOLE LOT OF ACTUALLY GOOD TV. “
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Garham Cracker, are you stoned or just a eunuch? “A Scandal in Belgravia” was by far the best episode so far. Lara Pulver was smoking hot in her role as Irene Adler. Cumberbatch is usually quite annoying, but plays a modern Sherlock character quite well.
jriley, stay away from torrents! Use http://jivesplace.blogspot.com/ , http://www.vidoox.com/ or http://www.rlsbb.com/ instead. They are faster and safer.
Man, I haven’t had a Garham Cracker in years.
I want a Graham cracker… I also want to scream “BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH!” loudly and fiercely at every opportunity.
It occurs to me that if people just wrote spoilers in all caps it would be a lot easier to skim past them.