Notes #1

1. Benedict Cumberbatch as a Holmes who oscillates between brooding moodiness one moment and manic energy the next. Is the epitome of geek sexiness.

2. Holmes fantastic feats of intellect of identikit celebrities, multi layered psychology have never seemed more fascinating.

3. You know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if i showed you too much of my method of working, you will come to a conclusion that i am a very ordinary people after all. And even if he had shared, he had little faith in the ability of others to truly understand his methods.

4. A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

5. A brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre eminent in intelligence.

6. Holmes nestled somewhere uncomfortably. The ordinary, everyday world bored him, which could make him seem distant, disinterested and even callous. This was an unfortunate side effect of his on going quest for excitement, for the unusual, for the sort of problem that could only be solved by his particular type of mind...

7. It was work that imperilled his life but which fulfilled a deep seated need within him for intellectual challenge and heart stopping adrenalin rushes.
Being Holmes was no easy option, and to follow in his intellectual footsteps is not a journey for a fainted heart.

8. Like all great artist he lived for his arts sake.

9. How often is imagination the mother of truth.

10. the brain is incredibly durable and can grow and change to cope with any number of new demand made upon it.